Nicaraguan Sign Language Project

2008 Field Trip to Nicaragua: Anna Shusterman and Lisa Drennan chat with a member of the Nicaraguan Sign Language community in Managua. CDL research on Nicaraguan Sign Language written up in the Wesleyan Connection!

Student Research, Summer ’08

CDL students present in the 2008 poster session of the Hughes Summer Research Program! (photo of students discussing Sarah Edelman’s poster) CDL students present in the 2008 poster session of the Quantitative Analysis Center! (photo of Lauren Feld presenting her research)

Summer 2008 @ the Yellow Lab

Annie Paladino ’09 presented her Hughes Program research on children’s estimation at the August 2008 Student Poster Session for summer research in the life sciences. Kyle MacDonald ’10 presented his QAC fellowship research in a poster entitled “Learning the Meanings of Large Number Words” at the Quantitative Analysis Center (QAC) summer program poster session.   … Read more

Summer 2008 @ the Blue Lab

Summer 2008 Lab Members. From left to right: Ravenna Neville, Sarah Edelman, Lisa Drennan, Anna Shusterman with Reuben, Lauren Feld, Max, Dominic Gibson. CDL students present in the 2008 poster session of the Hughes Summer Research Program! (photo of students discussing Sarah Edelman’s poster) CDL students present in the 2008 poster session of the Quantitative … Read more

Summer Research, 2007

Elise Herrig ’10 presented her QAC fellowship research in a poster entitled “Decision Making in Discrete Number and Continuous Amount Judgments” at the Quantitative Analysis Center (QAC) summer program poster session. Jessica Sullivan ’08 presented her Hughes Program research in a poster entitled “Estimation of Numerosities Outside of 5-Year-Olds’ Counting Ranges” at the August 2007 … Read more

Published in Mind Matters

Ariel Ballinger ’07, Lisa Sacerio ’07, AnjaLi Carrasco ’07, Sarah Elgart ’07, Rachel Jacobson ’08, Jessica Tsai ’07, and Allison Zoromski ’07 had their research project, “Imagined Spatial Motion and Spatiotemporal Metaphors,” published in the Psychology Department’s student-run journal, Mind Matters.

Ariel Ballinger ’07 Thesis Project

Ariel Ballinger ’07 presented her thesis research at the 2007 Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), held in Boston, MA from March 29th to April 1st. The poster presentation, coauthored with Professor Hilary Barth, was entitled “Counting, Estimation, and Approximate Nonverbal Arithmetic in Young Children.” Ariel’s project was also featured in … Read more

SRCD 2007

Jessica Tsai ’07, Ariel Ballinger ’07, Rachel Jacobson ’08, and AnjaLi Carrasco ’07 were coauthors on a poster presented by Hilary Barth at the 2007 Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), entitled “Children’s Assessments of Volume and Number in 3D Object Arrays.”