Lab News

Summer 2010 at the Yellow Lab

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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

Summer 2010 at the Blue Lab

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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

2009-2010 Achievements

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Barry Finder ’09 (BA/MA) completed work on his Master’s thesis, “Rethinking Developmental Transitions.” Dominic Gibson ’10 completed his senior thesis entitled “Two’s Company: Children’s Early Meanings of the Word ‘Two.’” Gwynne Hunter ’10 also completed her senior thesis, “How minimal group membership affects rapid judgments.” Both presented their research at the Psychology Department 2010 Poster … Read more

Barth, Starr, & Sullivan Published

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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. PDF