Books
& Special Journal Issues
Keil, F. C. (1979). Semantic and conceptual development: An ontological perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (229 pages)
Keil, F. C. (1989). Concepts, kinds, and cognitive development. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (343 pages)
Ram A., Nersessian N.J. and Keil F.C. (Eds.) (1997). Special Issue on Conceptual Change. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6(1).
Keil, F.C. and Wilson, R.A. (1998). Special Issue on Cognition and Explanation. Minds and Machines, 8(1).
Wilson, R.A. and Keil, F.C. (Eds.) (1999). The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Keil, F.C. and Wilson, R.A. (Eds.) (2000). Explanation and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Erickson, J.E. Keil, F.C. & Lockhart, K.L. (in press). Sensing the coherence of biology in contrast to psychology: Young children's use of causal relations to distinguish two foundational domains. Child Development.
Edwards, B.J., Burnett, R.C. & Keil, F.C. (in press). Structural Determinants of Interventions on Causal Systems. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2008. View
Keil, F.C. (in press). Conceptual Development and Change. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.
Keil, F. C. & Newman, G. E. (in press). Darwin and development: Why ontogeny does not recapitulate phylogeny for human concepts. in. D. Mareschal, P. Quin, & S. Lea (eds.). The Making of Human Concepts, Oxford University Press.
Mills, C.M., & Keil, F.C. (in press). Children's developing notions of (im)partiality. Cognition, 107, 528-551 . View
Baum, L.A., Danovitch, J.H., & Keil, F.C. (2008). Children's sensitivity to circular explanations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100, 146-155 . View
Keil, F.C., & Newman, G. (2008). Two tales of conceptual change: what changes and what remains the same. In S. Vosniadou (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change, Earlbaum, 83-101.
Newman, G., & Keil, F.C. (2008). 'Where's the Essence?': Developmental Shifts in Children's Beliefs About the Nature of Essential Features. Child Development, 79, 1344-1356. View
Marcus, G., & Keil, F.C. (2008). Concepts, correlations, and some challenges for connectionist cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 722-723.
Keil, F.C. (2008). Adapted Minds and Evolved Schools. Educational Psychologist, 43, 196-202.
Keil, F.C. (2008). Getting to the Truth: Grounding Incomplete Knowledge. Brooklyn Law Review, 73 (3), 1035-1052. View
Calabretta, R., Ferdinando, A.F., Parisi, D., & Keil, F.C. (2008). How to learn multiple tasks. Biological Theory, 3, 30-41. View
Keil, F.C. (2008). Space—The Primal Frontier? Spatial Cognition and the Origins of Concepts. Philosophical Psychology, 21(2), 241–250. View
Newman, G., Herrmann, P., Wynn, K., & Keil, F.C. (2008). Biases towards internal features in infants' reasoning about objects. Cognition, 107, 420–432. View
Weisberg, D.S., Keil, F.C., Goodstein, J., Rawson, E., & Gray, J. (2008). The seductive allure of neuroscience explanations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(3), 470-477. View
Keil, F.C., Stein, C., Webb, L., Billings, V.D., & Rozenblit, L. (2008). Discerning the Division of Cognitive Labor: An Emerging Understanding of How Knowledge is Clustered in Other Minds. Cognitive Science, 32(2), 259-300. View
Lockhart, K.L., Nakashima, N., Inagaki, K., & Keil, F.C. (2008). From Ugly Duckling to Swan? Japanese and American Beliefs about the Stability and Origins of Traits. Cognitive Development, 23, 155-179. View
Keil, F.C. (2008). The Shape of Things to Come. Developmental Science, 11(2), 216-222. View
Danovitch, J.H., & Keil, F.C. (2008). Young Humeans: The role of emotions in children's evaluation of moral reasoning abilities. Developmental Science, 11, 33-39. View
Lyons, D.E., Young, A.G., & Keil, F.C. (2007). The Hidden Structure of Overimitation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 19751-19756. Research Website View
Keil, F.C., Greif, M.A., & Kerner, R.S. (2007). A World Apart: How concepts of the constructed world are different in representation and in development. In E. Margolis & S. Laurence (Eds.), Creations of the Mind: Essays on Artifacts and their Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Keil, F.C. (2007). Biology and Beyond: Domain Specificity in a Broader Developmental Context. Human Development, 50(1), 31-38. View
Danovitch, J.H., & Keil, F.C. (2007). Choosing between hearts and minds: Children's understanding of moral advisors. Cognitive Development, 22(1), 110-123. View
Keil, F.C. (2006). How Children Grasp the Causal Structure of the World. Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology. Hove, U.K.: Psychology Press.
Keil, F.C. (2006). Cognitive Science and Cognitive Development. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Series Eds.) & D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol 2: Cognition, perception, and language (6th ed.). New York: Wiley. View
Greif, M., Kemler-Nelson, D., Keil, F.C. and Guiterrez, F. (2006). What do children want to know about animals and artifacts?: Domain-specific requests for information. Psychological Science, 17(6), 455-459. View
Keil, F.C., Lockhart, K.L., Keil, D.C., Keil, D.R. & Keil, M.F. (2006). Looking for Mr. Smarty Pants: Intelligence and Expertise in The Simpsons. In A. Brown and C. Logan (Eds.), D'Oh The Psychology of the Simpsons. Dallas, Texas: BenBella Books.
Lyons, D. E., Santos, L.R. & Keil, F.C. (2006). Reflections of other minds: how primate social cognition can inform the function of mirror neurons. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16(2), 230-239. View
Keil, F.C. (2006). Patterns of Knowledge Growth and Decline. In E. Bialystok & F.I.M. Craik (Eds.), Lifespan cognition: Mechanisms of change. NY: Oxford University Press. View
Keil, F.C. (2006). Explanation and Understanding. Annual Review of Psychology. 57, 227-254. View
Keil, F.C. (2006). Doubt, Deference and Deliberation. In J. Hawthorne and T. Gendler (Eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. View
Keil, F.C. (2005). Knowledge, categorization and the bliss of ignorance. In L. Gershkoff-Stowe, and D. Rakison (Eds.), Building object categories in developmental time ( pp.309-334). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. View
Keil, F.C. (2005). Exploring Boundary Conditions on the Structure of Knowledge: Some Nonobvious Influencees of Philosopy on Psychology. In D.S. Oderberg (Ed.), The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers (pp. 67-84). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. View
Keil, F.C. (2005). The Cradle of Categorization: Supporting Fragile Internal Knowledge Through Commerce with Culture and the World. In W.K. Ahn, R.L. Goldstone, B.C. Love, A. Markman, and P. Wolff (Eds.), Categorization Inside and Outside the Laboratory: Essays in Honor of Doug Medin (pp. 289-302). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. View
Choe, K., Keil, F.C., Bloom, P. (2005). Children's Understanding of the Ulysses Conflict. Developmental Science, 8(5), 387-392. View
Mills, C. and Keil, F.C. (2005). The Development of Cynicism. Psychological Science, 16, 385-390. (Editors' Choice selection in Science, 5/13/05) View
Danovitch, J. and Keil, F.C. (2004). Should you ask a fisherman or a biologist?: Developmental Shifts in Ways of Clustering Knowledge. Child Development, 75, 918-931. View
Keil, F.C., Rozenblit, L.R. and Mills, C. (2004). What lies beneath? Understanding the limits of understanding. In D.T. Levin (Ed.), Thinking and Seeing: Visual Metacognition in Adults and Children. Cambridge: MIT Press. View
Mills, C. and Keil, F.C. (2004). Knowing the limits of one's understanding: The development of an awareness of an illusion of explanatory depth. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 87, 1-32. View
Keil, F.C. (2004). Review of Pinker's The Blank Slate. Language, 80, 859-862. View
Keil, F.C. (2003). Categorization, Causation and the Limits of Understanding. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 663-692. View
Keil, F.C. (2003). That's Life: Coming to Understand Biology. Human Development, 46, 369-377. View
Keil, F.C. (2003). Categories, Cognitive Development and Cognitive Science. In D. H. Rakison & L. M. Oakes (Eds.), Early category and concept development: Making sense of the blooming buzzing confusion (pp. vi-xi). New York: Oxford University Press. View
Keil, F.C. (2003). Folkscience: Coarse interpretations of a complex reality. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 368-373. View
Kim, N.S. and Keil, F.C. (2003). From symptoms to causes: Diversity effects in Causal Reasoning. Memory and Cognition, 31, 155-165. View
Keil, F.C., Kim, N.S. & Greif, M.L. (2002). Categories and Levels of Information. In E. Forde and G. Humphreys (Eds.), Category-Specificity in Brain and Mind (pp.375-401). Psychology Press. View
Lutz, D.R. and Keil, F.C. (2002). Early Understanding of the Division of Cognitive Labor. Child Development, 73, 1073-1084. View
Rozenblit, L.R. and Keil, F.C. (2002). The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth. Cognitive Science, 26, 521-562. View
Levin, D.T., Takarae, Y., Miner, A., & Keil, F.C. (2001). Efficient visual search by category: Specifying the features that mark the difference between artifacts and animals in preattentive vision. Perception and Psychophysics, 63, 676-697. View
Keil, F.C. (2001). Good Intentions and Bad Words. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1110-1111. View
Keil, F.C. (2001). The Scope of the Cognitive Sciences. Artificial Intelligence, 130, 217-221. View
Bloom, P. & Keil, F.C. (2001). Thinking through language. Mind and Language, 16, 351- 367. View
Keil, F.C. (2000). The Origins of Developmental Psychology. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1, 347-357. View
Yamamoto, K. & Keil, F.C. (2000). The acquisition of Japanese numerical classifiers - Linkages between grammatical forms and conceptual categories. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 9, 379-409. View
Keil, F.C. (2000). Nurturing Nativism, review of Cowie's What's Within. A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind. View
Keil, F.C. & Wilson, R.A. (2000). Explaining Explanation. In F.C. Keil and R.A. Wilson (Eds.), Explanation and Cognition (pp.1-18). Cambridge: MIT Press. View
Johnson, C. & Keil, F.C. (2000). Explanatory Knowledge and Conceptual Combination. In F.C. Keil and R.A. Wilson (Eds.), Explanation and Cognition (pp.327-359). Cambridge: MIT Press. View
Keil, F.C. & Wilson, R.A. (2000). The Concept Concept: The Wayward Path of Cognitive Science, Review of Fodor's Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong. Mind and Language, 15, 308-318. View
Johnson, C. & Keil, F.C. (2000). Theoretical Centrality vs Typicality in Conceptual Combinations, In F.C. Keil and R.A. Wilson (Eds.), Explanation and Cognition (pp. 327-360). Cambridge: MIT Press.
Keil, F.C. (1999). Developmental Mythology (review of Kagan's Three Seductive Ideas). Contemporary Psychology, 44, 547-549.
Keil, F.C. (1999). Cognition, Content and Development. In M. Bennett (Ed.), Developmental Psychology: Prospects & Achievements (pp. 165-184). London: Psychology Press. View
Keil, F.C. , Levin, D., Gutheil, G. and Richman, B. (1999). Explanation, cause and mechanism: The case of contagion. In D. Medin & S. Atran (Eds.), Folkbiology (pp. 285-320). Cambridge: MIT Press. View
Keil, F.C. & Lockhart, K.L. (1999). Getting a grip on reality. In E. Winograd, R. Fivush and W. Hirst (Eds.), Ecological Approaches to Cognition: Essays in Honor of Ulric Neisser. Hillsdale, N.J.: Earlbaum. View
Keil, F. C. (1999). Nativism. In R. Wilson & F. Keil (Eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Keil, F. C. (1999). Conceptual Change. In R. Wilson & F. Keil (Eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Keil, F.C. and Richardson, D. (1999). Species, Stuff, and Patterns of Causation. In R.A. Wilson (Ed.), Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays (pp. 263-282). Cambridge: MIT Press. View
Keil, F.C. and Lockhart, K.L. (1999). Explanatory Understanding in Conceptual Development. In E.K Scholnick, K. Nelson, S. A. Gelman, & P.H. Miller (Eds.), Conceptual Development: Piaget's Legacy. Hillsdale, N.J.: Earlbaum. View
Eichenbaum, H.B., Cahill, L.F., Gluck, M.A., Hasselmo, M.E., Keil, F.C. , Martin, A.J., McGaugh, J.L., Murre, J., Myers, C., Petrides, M., Roozendaal, B., Schacter, D. L., Simons, D. J., Smith, W.C., and Williams, C.L. (1999). Learning and memory: Systems analysis. In M.J. Zigmond, F. E. Bloom, S. C. Landis, J. L. Roberts, and L. R. Squire (Eds.), Fundamental Neuroscience (ch. 56). San Diego: Academic Press. View
Keil, F. C. & Gutheil, G. (1998). Cognitive Development. In E. Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Fitneva, S. & Keil, F. (1998). The epistemic content of evidentiality: How children use grammar to evaluate the reliability of information. In A. Greenhill, M. Hughes, H. Littlefield & H. Walsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vols. 1-2, pp. 213-223). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Yamamoto, K. and Keil, F.C. (1998). The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers (Linkage between Grammatical Forms and Conceptual Categories). Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erbaum Associates.
Keil, F.C. (1998). Words, moms, and things: Language as a Road Map to Reality. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 63(1), 152-158. View
Gutheil, G., Vera, A. and Keil, F.C. (1998). Do houseflies think?: Patterns of induction and biological beliefs in development. Cognition, 66, 33-49. View
Wilson, R.A. and Keil, F.C. (1998). The shadows and shallows of explanation. Minds and Machines, 8, 137-159. Reprinted in revised form: Wilson, R.A. and Keil, F.C. (2000). In F.C. Keil and R.A. Wilson (Eds.), Explanation and Cognition. Cambridge: MIT Press. View
Keil, F.C. and Wilson, R.A. (1998). Cognition and explanation. Minds and Machines, 8, 1-5. View
Keil, F.C, Smith, C.S., Simons, D. and Levin, D. (1998). Two dogmas of conceptual empircism. Cognition, 65, 103-135. View
Keil, F.C. (1998). Cognitive Science and the origins of thought and knowledge. In R.M. Lerner (Ed.), Theoretical models of human development. Volume 1 of the Handbook of Child Psychology (5th. ed), Editor-in-Chief: William Damon. New York: Wiley.
Keil, F.C. (1998). The most basic units of thought do more, and less, than point. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 75-76.
Ram, A., Nersessian N.J., Keil F.C. (1997). Conceptual change. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6(1), 1-2.
Keil, F.C. (1997). Review of H. Roitblat and J. Meyer (Ed.) "Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science". Quarterly Review of Biology, 72, 110-111. View
Levin, D. T., Miner, A.G., & Keil, F.C. (1997). Understanding the perceptual information that drives visual search for kind. Investigative Opthamology & Visual Science, 38, 365.
Barrett, J. L. and Keil, F.C. (1996). Conceptualizing a non-natural entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts. Cognitive Psychology, 31, 219-247. View
Keil, F.C and Silberstein, C. S (1996). Schooling and the acquisition of theoretical knowledge. In D.R. Olson & N. Torrance (Eds.), The Handbook of Education and Human Development: New Models of Learning, Teaching and Schooling (pp. 621-645). Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, Inc.. View
Yamamoto, K. & Keil, F. C. (1996). Acquisition of Japanese Numerical Classifiers. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, and A. Zukowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Beale, J.M. and Keil, F.C. (1995). Categorical effects in the perception of faces. Cognition, 57, 217-239. View
Beale, J.M. and Keil, F.C. (1995). Categorical perception as an acquired phenomenon: What are the implications?. In L.S. Smith and P.J.B. Hancock (Eds.), Neural Computation and Psychology. London: Springer. View
Keil, F.C. (1995). The Growth of Causal Understandings of Natural Kinds: Modes of Construal and the Emergence of Biological Thought. In. A. Premack and D. Sperber (Eds.), Causal Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. View
Simons, D. and Keil, F.C. (1995). An abstract to concrete shift in the development of biological thought: the insides story. Cognition, 56, 129-163. View
Keil, F.C. (1994). Explanation Based Constraints on the Acquisition of Word Meaning. Lingua, 92, 169-196. Reprinted: Keil, F.C. (1994). Explanation Based Constraints on the Acquisition of Word Meaning. In L. Gleitman and B. Landau (Eds.), The Acquisition of the Lexicon (pp. 169-196). Cambridge: MIT Press.View
Keil, F.C. (1994). The birth and nurturance of concepts by domains: The origins of concepts of living things. In L. A. Hirschfeld and S. A. Gelman (Eds.), Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press. View
Keil, F. C. (1993). Conceptual Change and Other Varieties of Cognitive Development. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 4. Hilldale, N.J.: Earlbaum.
Keil, F.C. (1992). The Origins of an Autonomous Biology. In M. Gunnar and M. Maratsos (Eds.), Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition: The Minnesota Symposia. Hilldale, N.J.: Earlbaum. View
Keil, F.C.(1991). Godzilla vs. Mothra and the Sydney Opera House: Boundary conditions on functional architecture in infant visual perception and beyond. Mind and Language, 6, 239-251. View
Keil, F.C.(1991). On being more than the sum of the parts: The Conceptual Coherence of Cognitive Science. Psychological Science, 2, 283-293. View
Keil, F.C. (1991). Theories, concepts, and the acquisition of word meaning. In J. P. Byrnes and S.A. Gelman (Eds.), Perspectives on Language and Cognition: Interrelations in Development (pp. 197-224). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. View
Springer, K. and Keil, F.C. (1991). Early differentiation of causal mechanisms appropriate to biological and nonbiological kinds. Child Development, 62, 767-781. View
Keil, F.C. (1991). The Emergence of Theoretical Beliefs as Constraints on Concepts. In S. Carey and R. Gelman (Eds.), The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Cognition (pp. 237-256). Earlbaum. View
Keil, F. C. (1991). Intuitive belief systems and informal reasoning in cognitive development. In J. F. Voss, D. N. Perkins and J. Segal (Eds.), Informal reasoning and education (pp. 247-263). Earlbaum. View
Keil, F. C. (1991). Review of Markman's Categorization and Naming in Children. Human Development.
Gallistel, C.R., Brown, A.L., Carey, S., Gelman, R. and Keil, F.C.(1991). Lessons from animal learning for the study of cognitive development. In S. Carey and R. Gelman (Eds.), The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Cognition (pp. 3-36). Earlbaum. View
Keil, F. C. (1990). Constraints on the acquisition and representation of knowledge. In M. Eysenck (Ed.), Cognitive Psychology An International Review (pp. 197-219). Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press. View
Kelly, M.H., Springer, K., and Keil, F.C. (1990). The relation between syllable number and visual complexity in the acquisition of word meanings. Memory and Cognition, 18, 528-536. View
Keil, F. C. (1990). Constraints on constraints: Surveying the Epigenetic Landscape. Cognitive Science, 14,135-168. View
Keil, F. C. (1989). Spiders in the web of belief: The tangled relations between concepts and theories. Mind and language, 4, 43-50. View
Springer, K., & Keil, F. C. (1989). On the development of biologically specific beliefs: The case of inheritance. Child Development, 60, 637-648. View
Keil, F. C. (1988). Entre vista a Frank Keil. Cognitiva, 1(2), 213-222. (Translation of written interview by H. Peraita on concepts, word meanings, and cognitive development.)
Keil, F. C. (1988). Conceptual heterogeneity vs. developmental homogeneity (on chairs and bears and other such pairs). Human Development, 31(1), 35-43. View
Keil, F. C. (1987). Conceptual Development and Category Structure. In U. Neisser (Ed.), Concepts and Conceptual Development: The ecological and intellectual factors in categorization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. View
Keil, F. C. (1987). But what are they thinking about? Review of R. Siegler's Children's Thinking. Contemporary Psychology, 32(7), 618-619.
Keil, F. C., & Kelly, M. H. (1987). Developmental changes in category structure. In S. Harnad (Ed.), Categorical perception (pp. 491-510). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. View
Kelly, M. H. & Keil, F. C. (1987). Metaphor comprehension and knowledge of semantic domains. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 2, 33-51. View
Keil, F. C. (1986). Conceptual domains and the acquisition of metaphor. Cognitive Development, 1, 73-96. View
Keil, F. C. (1986). On the structure dependent nature of stages of cognitive development. In I. Levin (Ed.), Stage and Structure (pp. 144-163). Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex. View
Keil, F. C. (1986). The nonrepresentative nature of representational change: Some possible morals to draw from Nelson's Making Sense. Cognitive Development, 1, 281-291. View
Keil, F. C. (1986). The acquisition of natural kind and artifact terms. In W. Demopoulos and A. Marras (Eds.), Language Learning and Concept Acquisition (pp. 133-153). Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex. View
Keil, F. C. & Kelly, M. H. (1986). Theories of constraints and constraints on theories. In W. Demopoulos and A. Marras (Eds.), Language Learning and Concept Acquisition (pp. 173-183). Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex. View
Kelly, M. H., Bock, K. & Keil, F. C. (1986). Prototypicality in a linguistic context: Effects on sentence production and comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 25, 59-74. View
Kelly, M. H. & Keil, F. C. (1985). The more things change. . . : Metamorphoses and conceptual structure. Cognitive Science, 9, 403-416. View
Keil, F. C. (1985). Review of R. Lerner, On the nature of human plasticity. American Scientist, 73, 488.
Keil, F. C. (1984). Gestalt semantics [Review of Jackendoff's Semantics and Cognition]. Contemporary Psychology, 20 (12), 949-951.
Keil, F. C. (1984). Of Pidgins and Pigeons. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7.
Keil, F. C. (1984). Mechanisms in cognitive development and the structure of knowledge. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), Mechanisms of cognitive development (pp. 81-99). San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. View
Keil, F. C. & Batterman, N. (1984). A characteristic-to-defining shift in the acquisition of word meaning. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 23, 221-236. View
Keil, F. C. (1983). On the emergence of semantic and conceptual distinctions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 112 (3), 357-389.
Keil, F. C. (1983). Semantic inferences and the acquisition of word meaning. In T. B. Seiler and W. Wannemacher (Eds.), Concept development and the development of word meaning. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. View
Keil, F. C. (1982). Intelligence and the rest of cognition. Intelligence, 6, 1-21. View
Krumhansl, C. L., & Keil, F. C. (1982). Acquisition of the hierarchy of tonal functions in music. Memory and Cognition, 10, 243-251. View
Keil, F. C. (1981). Children's thinking: What never develops. Cognition, 10, 159-166. View
Keil, F. C. (1981). Natural categories and natural concepts. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 293-294.
Keil, F. C. (1981). Constraints on knowledge and cognitive development. Psychological Review, 88 (3), 197-227. (reprinted in Osherson, 1986) View
Keil, F. C. & Carroll, J. J. (1980). The child's acquisition of "tall": Implications for an alternative view of semantic development. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 19, 21-28. View
Keil, F. C. (1980). The development of the ability to perceive ambiguities; Evidence for the task specificity of a linguistic skill. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 9(3), 219-229. View
Keil, F. C. (1980). Reductionism and Cognitive Flexibility. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3 (1),141-142.
Keil, F. C. (1980). Language acquisition: An underrated achievement [Review of Out of the mouth of babes]. Contemporary Psychology, 25, 845-846.
Keil, F. C. (1980). [Review of N. R. Smith and M. R. Franklin, Symbolic functioning in childhood]. Child development abstracts and bibliography, 54, 251-252.
Keil, F. C. (1979). The development of the young child's ability to anticipate the outcomes of simple causal events. Child Development, 50, 455-462. View
Keil, F. C. (1979). [Review of M. Halle, J. Bresnan, and G. Miller (Eds.), Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality]. American Scientist, 67, 365-366.
Lytle, L. D., & Keil, F. C. (1974). Brain and peripheral monoamines: Possible role in the ontogenesis of normal and drug-induced responses in the immature mammal. In K. Fuxe, D. Olsen & Y. Zotterman (Eds.), Dynamics of regeneration and growth in neurons (pp. 575-591). New York: Pergamon Press.
Lytle, L. D., McGuire, R. A., Keil, F. C. & Becher, D. (1973). Amphetamine-induced thermic changes in developing rats. In E. Usdin and S. Snyder (eds.), Frontiers in Catecholamine Research (pp. 256-259). New York: Pergamon Press.
