Wesleyan University
On July 18th, the Cognitive Development Labs hosted the second annual SLAC (Selective Liberal Arts Colleges) Cognitive Development mini-conference at Wesleyan. Faculty and research assistants from Wesleyan, Smith College, Barnard College and Wellesley College participated. Read more about the mini-conference (and see some pictures) here.
A paper by lab alum Jess Sullivan ’08 and Hilary Barth, “Active (not passive) spatial imagery primes temporal judgments”, was published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology in June 2012. Read an article about this research in the Wesleyan Connection newsletter here. You can also download the original publication as a PDF.
A paper by lab alum Jess Sullivan ’08 and Hilary Barth, “Active (not passive) spatial imagery primes temporal judgments”, was published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology in June 2012. Read an article about this research in the Wesleyan Connection newsletter here. You can also download the original publication as a PDF.
This year, we teamed up with Mattel to investigate the developmental benefits of playing with toys. We recently completed testing for the Power of Play project and want to thank all of the local families who participated! Please check out our Power Of Play Newsletter for more information about this study.
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 … Read more
Blue Lab members helped staff and run the 1st Annual Preschool Math Night in Cromwell, CT at the Edna C. Stevens School. Preschool children and their families had a chance to play fun, math-related games that were designed and created by Angela Lo, Andrew Ribner, Simoneil Sarbh, Julia Vermeulen, and other students from Dr. Shusterman’s … Read more
Ariel Schwartz and Michaela Swee both graduated in December! They are continuing to work in the labs for Spring 2012.
Members of the Blue and Yellow Labs attended the 2011 Cognitive Development Society Conference in Philadelphia. Many Lab Alumnae were also in attendance, including Jess Sullivan, Julia Leonard, Dominic Gibson, Christian Hoyos, and Kyle MacDonald. We presented multiple posters about our current research projects: Drawing comparisons across children’s performance on numerical and proportion estimation tasks … Read more