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Marcus, G. F. (ed.) (2006) The Norton Psychology Reader. New York: W. W. Norton.
Marcus, G. F. (2004). The Birth of The Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought. New York: Basic Books. [Reviews]
[ Translations: Italian La Nascite della mente, Codice Press, Italy, 2004; Spanish Translation: El Nacimeiento de la Menta, Ariel, Barcelona, 2005. Japanese translation: Kokoro Wo Umidasu Idenshi, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 2005. Korean Edition: Ma-Um-ee Tae-Uh-Na-Nuen-Got. Henamu Press, Korea, 2005. German book club edition, in press. Additional translations in progress: German, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese.]
Marcus, G. F. (2001). The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Marcus, G. F., Pinker, S., Ullman, M., Hollander, M., Rosen, T. J., and Xu, F. (1992). Overregularization in Language Acquisition. (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development). 57 (4, Serial No. 228).
Fisher, S. E. & Marcus, G. F. (2006). The eloquent ape: genes, brains and the evolution of language. Nature Reviews Genetics.
Fernandes, K. J., Marcus, G. F. DiNubila, J. A., & Vouloumanos, A. (2006). From Semantics to Syntax and Back Again: Argument Structure in the Third Year of Life. Cognition, 100, B10-20
Marcus, G. F. (2006). Cognitive Architecture and Descent with Modification. Cognition 101, 443-465 .
Marcus, G. F. & Rabagliati, H. (2006) The nature and origins of language: How studies of developmental disorders could help, Nature Neuroscience., 10, 1226-1229. [invited]
Marcus, G. F. (2004) Before the Word. Nature 431, 745.
Marcus, G. F. and Fisher, S. E. (2003). FOXP2 in focus: what can genes tell us about speech and language? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 257-262. [Translated as Le point sur FOXP2 : que peuvent nous enseigner les genes sur la parole et le langage, Médecine & enfance, Mai 2004.]
Berent, I., Marcus, G., Shimron, J., & Gafos, A. (2002). The scope of linguistic generalizations: Evidence from Hebrew word formation. Cognition. 83 (2), 113-139.
Hauser, M., D. Weiss. D, & Marcus, G. F. (2002). Rule learning by cotton-top tamarins. Cognition, 86 (1) B15-B22.
Marcus, G. F. (2000) Pa bi ku and ga ti ga: Two mechanisms children could use to learn about language and the world. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 9, 145-147.
Marcus, G. F., Vijayan, S., Bandi Rao, S., and Vishton, P. M. (1999). Rule-learning in seven-month-old infants. Science, 283, 77-80.
Marcus, G. F. (1999). Language acquisition in the absence of explicit negative evidence: Can simple recurrent networks obviate the need for domain-specific learning devices? Cognition, 73, 293-296.
Marcus, G. F. (1998). Can connectionism save constructivism? Cognition, 66, 153-182.
Marcus, G. F. (1998). Rethinking eliminative connectionism. Cognitive Psychology, 37, 243-282.
Marcus, G. F. (1997). Extracting higher-level relationships in connectionist models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 77.
Marcus, G. F. (1996) Why do children say breaked? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 81-85.
Marcus, G. F. (1995) The acquisition of inflection in children and multilayered connectionist networks. Cognition, 56, 271-279.
Marcus, G. F. (1995). Children's overregularization of English plurals: a quantitative analysis. Journal of Child Language, 22, 447-459.
Marcus, G. F., Brinkmann, U., Clahsen, H., Wiese, R., and Pinker, S. (1995). German inflection: The exception that proves the rule. Cognitive Psychology, 29, 189-256.
Kim, J. J., Marcus, G. F., Pinker, S., Hollander, M., and Coppola, M. (1994). Sensitivity of children's inflection to grammatical structure, Journal of Child Language. 21, 173-209.
Reprinted in K. Perera, G. Collis, and B. Richards (eds.) (1994) Growing Points in Child Language. Cambridge University Press.
Marcus, G. F. (1993). Negative evidence in language acquisition. Cognition, 46, 53-85.
Clahsen, H., Rothweiler, M., Woest, A. and Marcus, G. F. (1992). Regular and Irregular Inflection in the Acquisition of German Noun Plurals. Cognition 45, 225-255.
COMMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE
Marcus, G. F. & Rabagliati, H. (2006) Genes and domain-specificity. [Letter in response to Plomin and Kovas.] Trends in Cognitive Science. In press
Marcus, G. F. (2006). Startling starlings [News & Views]. Nature, 440, 1117-1118. [invited]
Marcus, G. F. (2005). Opposites detract: Why rules and similarity should not be viewed as opposite ends of a continuum Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Marcus, G. F. (2004). Something old something new. Journal of Child Language, 31, 934-935.
Marcus, G. F. (2004). What's in a U: The shapes of cognitive development. Journal of Cognitive Development, 5, 119-122.
Marcus, G. F. and Berent, I. (2003). Are There Limits to Statistical Learning? Science, 300, 53-54.
Marcus., G. F., Vouloumanos, A., and Sag, I. A. (2003). Does Broca's play by the rules? Nature Neuroscience, 6, 651-2.
Marcus, G. F. (2002). What can developmental disorders tell us about modularity? Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 25, 762-763.
Marcus, G. F. (2002). The modules behind the learning. Developmental Science. 5, 175.
Marcus, G. F. (1999). Do infants learn grammar with algebra or statistics? Response to Seidenberg & Elman, Eimas, and Negishi. Science, 284, 436-437.
Marcus, G. F. (1999). Connectionism: with or without rules? Trends in Cognitive Sciences., Connectionism: with or without rules? Response to J.L. McClelland and D.C. Plaut (1999), Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999, 3, 168-170.
Marcus, G. F. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old infants and neural networks. Response to Altmann and Dienes. Science, 284, 875a.
Marcus, G. F. (1999). Reply to Seidenberg and Elman, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999, 3, 289.
Marcus, G. F. (1999). Reply to Christiansen and Curtin, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999, 3, 289-290.
Marcus, G. F. (1999). Genes, proteins, and domain-specificity. A reply to Tomblin and Pandich, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999, 3, 367.
Marcus, G. F. (1998). Innate representations? Early Development and Parenting, 7, 145-146.
Marcus, G. F. (1995) L2 learners treat regular and irregular inflection differently in compounding. Second Language Research, 11, 88-89.
Fernandes, K., Marcus, G., DiNubila, J, & Vouloumanos, A. (2005). Generalizing Argument Structure in the Third Year of Life. Proceedings of the 29th BU Conference on Language Development, Volume 1, Cascadilla Press. 192-203.
[superseded by Fernandes, Marcus, DiNubila, and Vouloumanos, 2006]Storjohann, R. & Marcus, G. F. (2005) NeuroGene: Integrated simulation of gene regulation, neural activity and neurodevelopment. Proceedings of the 2005 International Joint INNS-IEEE Conference on Neural Networks. In press.
Marcus, G. F. (2005). What developmental biology can tell us about innateness. In The Innate Mind: Structure and Content, P. Carruthers, S. Laurence and S. Stich (eds.). Oxford University Presss.
Marcus, G. F. (2001). Plasticity and nativism: Towards a resolution of an apparent paradox. In. S. Wermter , J. Austin and D. Willshaw (eds.) Emergent neural computational architectures based on neuroscience. Springer-Verlag, pp. 368-382.
Marcus, G. F. (2000). Two kinds of representations. In E. Deitrich & A. Markman (Eds.), Cognitive dynamics: Conceptual and representational change in humans and machines Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Marcus, G. F. (2000). Children's Overregularization and Its Implications for Cognition. In P. Broeder, & J. Murre (eds). Models of Language Acquisition: Inductive and deductive approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 154-176. [not currently available on-line]
Marcus, G. F. (1999). Poverty of the stimulus arguments. In R. Wilson and F. C. Keil, (eds.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Cambridge MA, MIT Press., pp 660-661. [not currently available on-line]
Bartke, S., Marcus, G. F., Clahsen, H. (1995). Acquiring German noun Plurals. In D. MacLaughlin & S. McEwen (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston: Cascadilla Press. [not currently available on-line]
Clahsen, H., Marcus, G. F., Bartke, S., & Wiese, R. (1995). Compounding and inflection in German child language. Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1995. Kluwer, 1-28. An earlier version appeared in Essex Research Reports in Linguistics, #1, University of Essex, Colchester, England [not currently available on-line].
Marcus, G. F., Brinkmann, U., Clahsen, H., Wiese, R., Woest, A., and Pinker, S. (1993). German inflection: The exception that proves the rule. In Proceedings of 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. p. 670-675. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [not currently available on-line]
Kim, J. J., Marcus, G. F., Hollander, M. and Pinker, S. (1991). Children's inflection is sensitive to morphological structure. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 30: 39-46. [not currently available on-line]
Marcus. G. (2004). Programs of the Mind [Review of What is Thought by Eric Baum]. Science. 304, 1450-1451.
Marcus, G. F. (2001). A gift for language [Review Pathways to Language by Karmiloff & Karmiloff-Smith]. American Scientist, 89, 456-458. [not currently available on-line]f
Marcus, G. F. (2000). Review of The Evolution of Mind edited by Denise D. Cummins and Colin Allen. Human behavior and evolution, 21, 63-64. [not currently available on-line]
Marcus, G. F. (1997) Review of Exercises in rethinking innateness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 318-319. [not currently available on-line]
Marcus, G. F. (1994). Review of Spoken Language Comprehension: An Experimental Approach to Disordered and Normal Processing by Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler. Mind & Language, 9 (1), 102-104. [not currently available on-line]
Marcus, G. F. (1993). Review of Morphology and mind: A unified approach to explanation in linguistics by Christopher Hall. Applied Psycholinguistics, 14, 413-416. [not currently available on-line]
Marcus, G. (2006) Marcus, G. (2006) From Squeak to Syntax: Language's Incremental Evolution. The New York Times. April 11th.
Marcus, G. (2006) If computers are made up of hardware and software, transistors and resistors, what are neural machines we know as minds made up of? In J. Brockman (ed.) What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It? New York: Harper Collins.
Talking Point. Nature, 437, 21-22. [interviewed by Helen Pilcher]
Marcus, G. (2005) The journey from gene to brains in 25,000 genes or less. Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 85, 16-19. [not currently available on-line]
Marcus, G. (2004). Behold the Talking Chimp. The Scientist. 18, 32-33.
Marcus, G. (2003/2004). Making the Mind. The Boston Review, 28 (6, December/January), 32-35. . Reprinted in Andrew Guest (ed). (2006) Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Lifespan Development, 1 ed.. McGraw Hill.
Marcus, G. (2004) An unfolding genetic story. The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 10. Reprinted in Espresso [leading Italian weekly magazine], December 2004)
Marcus, G. (2004). Genetics will Help Social Engineers Nurture the Brain's Nature. The Los Angeles Times, Part B, page 15, Sunday, April 21, 2004.
Marcus, G. (2004). The Need for Cooperation Is in the Genes. The Los Angeles Times, Part M, page 5, Sunday, January 4, 2004.