••• Welcome to our News & Photos page! •••
The Barth Lab is also known as the Yellow Lab; we’re on the 2nd floor of Judd Hall.
To read published research from the Yellow Lab, go here.
To read the latest CDL newsletter (Spring ‘09), click here.
••• Summer 2009 •••
Keera Bhandari ‘08/MA ‘09 is the author (with Hilary Barth) of a new journal article based on her Master’s thesis research. The article will appear in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology – click here to read the article (clicking the link will download a PDF). Keera also successfully defended her thesis, and finished collecting data for her final study of how preschool children make use of the testimony of others.
Jenn Garcia ‘10 worked with postdoctoral fellow Mariah Schug on her ongoing studies of the development of group bias in childhood. Mariah also traveled to the Faroe Islands to collect data for a series of collaborative studies.
Kyle MacDonald ‘10 completed data collection for two experiments in an ongoing series of studies investigating children’s numerical estimation, and began work on a new project investigating children’s understanding of testimony.
The lab also welcomed its newest and youngest member, Callahan Jane! Callie was born on July 30th to Hilary Barth and her husband Sean Gomez.
••• Academic Year 2008-2009 •••
Annie Paladino ‘09 presented her poster, entitled “Young Children’s Performance on a Numerical Estimation Task: Identifying the Source of Change,” at the Spring 2009 Psychology Department Poster Session.
Annie Paladino with her poster at the 2009 Wesleyan Psychology Poster Session.
Jessica Sullivan ‘08 and Ariel (Ballinger) Starr ‘07 co-authored a new article with Hilary Barth. Their work on children’s numerical estimation will appear in the journal Cognitive Development. Click here to read the journal article (clicking the link will download a PDF).
Keera Bhandari ‘08/MA ‘09 presented her research at the 2009 Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), held in Denver, CO from April 2nd to April 4th. The poster presentation, coauthored with Professor Barth, was entitled “Acquiring Knowledge from Others: Preschoolers’ Use of Testimony.” Keera also presented her work at Wesleyan’s Science Thesis Poster Session and at the Psychology Department Poster Session.
Left: Keera Bhandari presents her poster to Prof. Laura Wagner of OSU. Right: Jess Sullivan shows off data.
Jessica Sullivan ‘08 presented a poster coauthored by Kyle MacDonald ‘10, Annie Paladino ‘09, and Professor Barth at the 2009 Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), entitled “Children’s Mappings of Number Words to Large Numerosities.” Jess and Kyle also presented this work at the Psychology Department Poster Session.
Mariah Schug (postdoctoral fellow) presented her work at the 2009 Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in a poster entitled, “Mother-Infant Interactions in a Cross-Cultural Sample: Mothering Styles and Object Learning in Germany, Greece and Italy.” She presented her work at the Psychology Department Poster Session as well.
Mariah Schug presents her work at the 2009 Wesleyan Psychology Poster Session.
••• Summer 2008 •••
Summer 2008 research students Keera Bhandari, Annie Paladino, & Kyle MacDonald (not shown: Jess Sullivan)
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.
••• Academic Year 2007-2008 •••
2007-2008 lab members. Front row: Keera Bhandari, Rachel Jacobson, Jessica Sullivan, Julie Neuspiel, Phoebe Jones, Joseph Feldblum. Back row: Hilary Barth, Elise Herrig, Nicole Gray. Not shown: Annie Paladino
Lab members presented their work at the Spring 2008 Psychology Department Poster Session. Keera Bhandari ‘08 presented her research project (conducted with Nicole Gray ‘08) on preschool children’s social cognition; Jessica Sullivan ‘08 presented her project on children’s estimation; and Julie Neuspiel ‘09, Joseph Feldblum ‘08, and Phoebe Jones ‘08 presented their work (conducted with Rachel Jacobson ‘08) on preschoolers’ approximate subtraction abilities. Click here for the Psychology Poster Session slideshow.
The Cognitive/Developmental Brown Bag Lunch group poster session (Spring 2008) included presentations by Barth lab members Keera Bhandari ‘08, Jessica Sullivan ‘08, and Julie Neuspiel ‘09, Joseph Feldblum ‘08, and Phoebe Jones ‘08, as well as presentations from students working in the labs of faculty members Anna Shusterman, Barbara Juhasz, and Andrea Patalano.
••• Summer 2007 •••
Summer 2007 research students Jessica Sullivan, Elise Herrig, Julie Neuspiel, & Annie Paladino
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 Student Poster Session for summer research in the life sciences.
••• Academic Year 2006-2007 •••
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 the Wesleyan Connection newsletter.
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.”
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.
••• Summer 2006 •••
Summer research students Jessica Tsai, Ariel Ballinger, Rachel Jacobson, & AnjaLi Carrasco, with Hilary Barth
Ariel Ballinger ‘07 presented her Hughes Program research on children’s approximate addition and counting skills at the August 2006 Student Poster Session for summer research in the life sciences.
••• Academic Year 2005-2006 •••
Research assistants Jessica Sullivan ‘08, Ariel Ballinger ‘07, Nora Switchenko ‘07, and Nick DeWind ‘06 helped to get the newly renovated lab up and running!