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erchase Christian Hoyos ’11 and Anna Shusterman’s work on landmark use in a disorientation task was presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting, held in Montreal, QC, Canada from March 31 – April 2. Anna Shusterman and Emily Slusser, along with collaborators Justin Halberda and Darko Odic from JHU, also presented work on … Read more
Undergraduates Anima Acheampong ’11, Rachel Santiago ’12, and Shipra Kanjlia ’12, lab alum Kyle MacDonald ’10, and lab coordinator Jennifer Garcia ’10 co-authored poster presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) held in Montreal. Kyle MacDonald ’10 presented his thesis research at the SRCD conference. Current postdoc Emily Slusser, former postdoc Mariah Schug, and lab director Hilary Barth presented work at SRCD as well.
Jess Sullivan ’08 is the author (with co-authors Barbara Juhasz, Tim Slattery, and Hilary Barth) of an article entitled “Adults’ number-line estimation strategies: evidence from eye movements” published in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Annie Paladino ’09 is the co-author (with Hilary Barth) of a new journal article based on her Hughes program research fellowship. The article is called “The development of numerical estimation: Evidence against a representational shift,” and it appears in the journal Developmental Science.
Barth and Shusterman Lab gather together at the annual Summer Research Poster Session held at Wesleyan University’s Exley Science Center
Five undergraduate students conducted research in the lab this summer, culminating in presentations at the annual Summer Research Poster Session. Anima Acheampong ’11 and Rachel Santiago ’12 presented a poster entitled “Developmental Change in Children’s Numerical Estimation”. Martine Seiden ’11 presented her research in a poster entitled “Implicit Proportional Reasoning in Four- and Five-Year Olds”. … Read more
Pictured above: Christian Hoyos ’11 presents his poster entitled ‘Direction-of-transfer effects in children’s map use” at the Annual Summer Research Poster Session. Christian Hoyos ’11, Mike Sandwick ’11, Adele Borden ’12, Lindsay Kenney ’12, and Julia Marroquín-Cerón ’12 worked in the blue lab over the summer, continuing our research on topics including children’s early number … Read more
Our new Yellow and Blue lab coordinators, Jennifer Garcia ’10 (left) and Talia Berkowitz (right)