Recent Dissertations
While the majority of our graduate students have backgrounds in psychology, many majored in anthropology, biology, education, english, history, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, and sociology as undergraduates. The graduate students come from all parts of the United States as well as many foreign countries. Those completing a doctoral degree usually take from four to seven years. The majority of our graduates go on to careers in university and college teaching, some into government and commercial positions The titles of some of the dissertations completed in the 1994-05 time period give an idea of some of the research created in the programs.
Jin, Wenying - “The Role of Color Memory in Mediating Successive Color
Constancy.” 1998.
Imaging Scientist, Eastman Kodak Corp.
Barr, Dale - “ A Theory Of Dynamic Coordination For Conversational
Interaction” 2000.
Associate Professor, University of California at Riverside
Kelly, Spencer Dougan - “Children’s Understanding of Pragmatically Ambiguous
Speech: Have We Been Missing The Point?” 2000.
Associate Professor, Colgate University
Sommerville, Jessica - “Means-end Reasoning: Infants' developing Ability to
Interpret and Perform Intentional Actions.” 2002.
Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Norris, Catherine – “Exploring the Negative Bias: A Social Neuroscience
Perspective” 2004
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Hammond, Amy – “Developmental Exploration of the "Default" Order
of Created Gesture Systems” 2005
Assistant Professor. Centenary College
Cook, Susan Wagner – “Gesture, Movement and Working Memory: A
Functional Account” 2006.
Assistant Professor. University of Iowa
Fenn, Kimberly – “Waking Up to the Impact of Sleep: Consolidation
of Generalized Skill Learning and Declarative Memory Formation” 2006
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Lourenco, Stella - "How Is Location Information Mapped In
Childhood? Some Underlying Principles" 2006
Assistant Professor. Emory University.
Parrill, Fey – “Subjects in the Hands of Speakers: An Experimental Study of
the Relationship between Syntactic Subject and Speech-Gesture Patterning in
Narrative Discourse” 2006.
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University.
Levitan, Lindsey-"Giving Prejudice an Attitude Adjustment: The Implications of Attitude Stregnth and Social Network Attitudinal Composition for the prejudice and Prejudice Reduction" 2007.
Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony Brook University.
So, Wing Chee-"Speaking and Moving Hands to Describe Motion Events: Cross-Linguistic Differences in Speech and Gestural Representation of Arguments in Adults amd Childres" 2007.
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore.
Buresh, Jennifer-:Infants' Understanding of Convientional Action" 2007.
Post-doctoral appointment. University of Chicago.
Skipper, Jeremy-"Lending A Helping Hand To Hearing: Brain Mechanisms For Processing Speech Associated Movements" 2007
Post-doctoral Appointment, Rutgers University
Wallisch, Pascal-"Principles of Spatail and Temporal Integration in Receptive Fields of MT Neurons" 2007.
Post-doctoral appointment, New York University.
