Lab Affiliation: Comparative Communication Laboratory

Research Interests:

Language Acquisition, Statistical Learning, Comparative Cognition and Communication with Nonhuman Primates.

Research Opportunities:

Availability for motivated undergraduates and new graduate students (see lab website).

Recent Publications:

Weiss D.J., Kralik, J.D., & Hauser, M.D. (2001). Face processing in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Cognition, 3,(4)191-205.

Weiss, D.J., Garibaldi, B. T., & Hauser, M. D. (2001). The production and perception of long calls by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus): Acoustic analyses and playback experiments. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 15(3), 258-271.

Hauser, M.D., Weiss, D.J. & Marcus, G. (2002) Rule learning by cotton-top tamarins. Cognition, 86, B15-B22.

Miller C., Weiss, D.J. & Hauser, M.D. (2002) Mechanisms of acoustic classification in primates. A. Ghazanfar (Ed.), Primate Audition: Ethology and Neurobiology. CRC Press. 43-61.

Weiss, D.J., Ghazanfar, A.A., Miller, C.T., & Hauser, M.D. (2002). Specialized processing of primate facial and vocal expressions: Evidence for cerebral asymmetries. L. Rogers and R. Andrew (Eds.), Comparative Vertebrate Laterality. 480-531.

Weiss, D.J. & Hauser, M.D. (2002) Perception of harmonics in the combination long call of cottontop tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) Animal Behaviour 64, 415-426.

Maye, J. & Weiss, D.J. (2003) Statistical cues facilitate infants' discrimination of difficult phonetic contrasts. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Jordan, K., Weiss, D., Hauser, M., & McMurray, B. (2004) Individual recognition and antiphonal responses to loud contact calls produced by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). International Journal of Primatology 25(2), 465-475.

Weiss, D.J. & Newport E. (2006) Mechanisms Underlying Language Acquisition: Benefits From a Comparative Approach. Infancy 9(2), 241-257.

Weiss, D.J. & Santos, L. (2006) Introduction to Thematic Collection: Why Primates?: The Importance of Non-Human Primates for Understanding Human Infancy. Infancy 9(2), 133-146.

Maye J., Weiss, D.J. & Aslin R.N. (In review) Statistical phonetic learning in infants: Facilitation and feature Generalization. Developmental Science.

Weiss, D.J. & Gerfen, C. (2006) Language segmentation in a bilingual environment. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Weiss, D.J. & Gerfen, C. (In review) Language segmentation in a bilingual environment.

Weiss, D.J. & Maye, J. (in press) The role of contrast in the acquisition of phonetic systems. Proceedings of Contrast and Complexity in Phonology.

Weiss, D.J., Gerfen, C., Mitchel, A., & Rizzo, W. (in prep) The role of pauses and statistics in word segmentation: A new perspective on colliding cues.

Weiss, D.J., Rosenbaum, D. & Wark, J. (in review) Monkey See, Monkey Plan, Monkey Do: The End-State Comfort Effect in Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus oedipus).