Psychology of art; nonliteral language understanding in children and adults; theory of mind abilities in normal children and in pathological populations; development of academically and artistically gifted children.
Winner, E. Invented worlds:The psychology of the arts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.(Paperback, 1985).
Winner, E.The point of words:Children's understanding of metaphor and irony. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1988.
Winner, E. Gifted children: Myths and realities. New York: BasicBooks, 1996.
Winner, E. (Ed.) 10th anniversary issue: Developmental perspectives on metaphor. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 10, 4, Fall, 1995.
Torff, B. & Winner, E. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: On the role of innate factors in musical accomplishment. The Psychologist, 7, 8, 1994, 361-362.
Dews, S., & Winner, E. Muting the meaning: A social function of irony. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 1995, 10, 1, 3-19.
Sullivan, K., Winner, E., & Hopfield, N. How children tell a lie from a joke: The role of second-order mental state attributions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1995, 13, 191-204.
Dews, S., Winner, E. , & Kaplan, J. Why not say it directly? The social function of irony. Discourse Processes, 1995, 19, 3, 347-367.
Martino, G., & Winner, E. Talents and disorders: The relationship between sex, handedness, and college major. Brain and Cognition, 1995, 29, 66-84.
Rice, C., Winner, E., Sullivan, K., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Koinos, D. Three-year-olds can distinguish between appearance and reality under certain conditions. Developmental Psychology, in press.
Brownell, H., Pincus, D., Blum, A., Rehak, A., & Winner, E. The effects of right hemisphere brain-damage on patients' use of terms of personal reference. Brain and Language, in press.
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