Recent Ph.D.s
2007
Stacy Ehrlich
Susan Levine, Chair
The Preschool Achievement Gap: Are Variations in Teacher Input Associated with Differences in Number Knowledge?
2006
Stella Lourenco
Janellen Huttenlocher, Chair
How is Location Information Mapped in Childhood? Some Underlying Principles
Susan Wagner Cook
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Chair
Gesture, Movement and Working Memory: A Functional Account
Priya Shimpi
Janellen Huttenlocher, Chair
The Role of Associated Object Cues in Infants' Understanding of Absent Reference
2005
Jessica Heineman-Peiper
Amanda Woodward, Chair
A Science of Persons: New Foundations for Human Agency
Amy Hammond
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Chair
Developmental Exploration of the "Default" Order of Created Gesture Systems
2004
Camille Wilson Brune
Amanda Woodward, Chair
The Origins of Joint Attention: Relations between Social Knowledge, Social Responsiveness, and Attentional Control
Bari Weiselman-Schulman
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Chair
A Crosslinguistic Investigation of the Speech-gesture Relationship in Motion Event Descriptions
2003
Yoonkyung Jeong
Janellen Huttenlocher, Chair
Development of Proportional Reasoning: Equivalence Matching with Continuous vs. Discrete Quantity
Sean E. Duffy
Janellen Huttenlocher, Chair
Seeing through Cultures: Perceiving and Estimating Object Extent in North America and Japan
Sara C. Broaders
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Chair
Children's Susceptibility to Suggestion Conveyed by the Gesture of the Interviewer
2002
Jessica A. Sommerville
Amanda Woodward, Chair
Means-end Reasoning: Infants' developing Ability to Interpret and Perform Intentional Actions
Diana Mendley Rauner
Janellen Huttenlocher, Chair
The Language Environments of Child Care Homes and Their Relation to Language Development in the Second and Third Years of Life
Toby Ellen Lazarus
Susan Levine, Chair
Changes in Face Processing Across Ages: The Role of Experience
Jose Jesus Guajardo
Amanda Woodward, Chair
Exploring How Infants Identify Agents
2001
Fraeda Rebecca Friedman
Starkey Duncan, Chair
Aspects of Mother-child Interactions that Relate to Later Diagnosed Mental Disorders
2000
Fan Gao
Susan Levine, Chair
Children’s Understanding of Cardinal Equivalence in large Discrete Sets
Meng Yu Zheng
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Chair
Language and Thought in Early Development: A Comparative Study the Expression of Motion Events in Chinese and American, Hearing and Deaf Children
Marina Vasilyeva
Janellen Huttenlocher, Chair
Development of Understanding of Relational Correspondence between Spaces
Asli H. Ozyurek
David McNeill, Chair
Verbal and Gestural Expressions of Direction in Socio-Spatial Context: A Comparative Study with Adults and Children
