Mary Beth Neff

Doctoral Research Fellow
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Email m.e.neff@ifikk.uio.no
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Visiting address Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic interests

PhD Fellow on the DEVCOM project led by Ingrid Lossius Falkum. My research interests include pragmatics, theory of mind, and communicative development. My PhD broadly covers non-literal language acquisition in children. See ResearchGate for publications and other projects. 

I also lead an international and cross-sector task force on pilot reporting practices in psychology. Visit our website for more information on our mission and current projects.

Tags: Pragmatics, Theory of Mind, Developmental Psychology, Non-literal language, Psycholinguistics, Open Science

Publications

  • Nguyen, Tram Thi Bao; Balanovic, Jovana; Aley, Joanne & Neff, Mary Beth (2022). (Preprint) Human dimensions of Predator Free 2050: A literature overview of social and behavioral research. SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/f98m3.
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Martin, Alia (2022). Do face-to-face interactions support 6-month-olds' understanding of the communicative function of speech? Infancy. ISSN 1525-0008. doi: 10.1111/infa.12507. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hilton, Courtney; Moser, Cody; Bertolo, Mila; Lee-Rubin, Harry; Amir, Dorsa & Bainbridge, Constance [Show all 43 contributors for this article] (2022). Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. ISSN 2397-3374. doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01410-x.

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  • Neff, Mary Beth & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). Understanding the relationship between children's literalist behavior and metaphor comprehension development.
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). Does children's early literalist behavior stem from difficulties with metaphor comprehension?
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). Uncoupling children's literal bias from their metaphor comprehension abilities.
  • Neff, Mary Beth; Ganea, Patricia & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). Do children interpret metaphors literally because they are fantastical thinkers?
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Bochynska, Agata (2023). Unconference on (Transparent) Piloting: current practices and ways forward .
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2023). Unpacking the literal bias in children’s metaphor comprehension development.
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2022). Exploring the literal bias in children's metaphor comprehension development.
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2022). Exploring the literal bias in children's metaphor comprehension development.
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2022). Exploring the literal bias in children's metaphor comprehension development.
  • Neff, Mary Beth & Falkum, Ingrid Lossius (2022). Exploring the literal bias in children's metaphor comprehension development.

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