Members of both labs presented at this year’s Psychology Department Research Poster session at Wesleyan. Posters covered many of the Labs’ ongoing and completed projects.
Individual differences in probability weighting: Evidence from a gambling task – Jason Saltiel & Lily Kaplan (Advisors: Andrea Patalano & Hilary Barth)
How feedback improves children’s numerical estimation – Shipra Kanjlia (Advisor: Hilary Barth)
The power of play – Emilie George (Advisors: Hilary Barth, Anna Shusterman, & Emily Slusser)
Estimation bias in numerical and non-numerical spatial tasks – Isabel Bernstein, Ellen Lesser, Rachel Santiago, & Amy Toig (Advisors: Hilary Barth & Emily Slusser)
Developing research-based preschool math curriculum – Angela Lo, Andrew Ribner, Simoneil Sarbh, & Julia Vermeulen (Advisor: Anna Shusterman)
Navigation in children: using landmark-guided search and left-right language for reorientation – Taylor DeLoach & Samantha Melvin (Advisor: Anna Shusterman)
Cardinal principle training: Is it possible to teach abstract math concepts to kids? – Srotoshini Bhalobasha, Carolyn Mortell, & Theary Sokhom (Advisor: Anna Shusterman)
The assessment of nonverbal numeracy – Mark Nakhla & Ariel Schwartz (Advisor: Anna Shusterman)
Drawing comparisons across children’s performance on numerical and proportion estimation tasks – Adele Borden, Martine Seiden, & Talia Berkowitz (Advisors: Hilary Barth, Emily Slusser, & Anna Shusterman)
Number development in oral deaf and typically hearing preschoolers – Rebecca Lange (Advisor: Anna Shusterman)