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 1994-2011 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.
Postdoctoral 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 Spatial and Temporal Integration in Receptive Fields of MT Neurons" 2007.
Postdoctoral appointment, New York University.
Spaepen, Elizabet-"The Limits of Numerical Reasoning Without Linguistic Input" 2008.
Postdoctoral appointment, University of Chicago.
Eaton, Asia-"Prescriptions for persuasion: The relationship between sex role norms and gender differences in persuadability" 2009.
2011 Kauffman Profesor, Florida International University.
Lev-Ari, Shiri-"Variability in Languuage Processing: Processing Non-Native Speech" 2010.
Postdoctoral appointment, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Cognitive Science Department, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.
Shneidman, Laura-"Language Input and Acquisition in a Mayan Village" 2010.
Postdoctoral appointment, University of Chicago
McDonough, Ian-"Autobiographical Reality Monitoring in Aging" 2011.
Postdoctoral appointment, University of Texas (Dallas)
Ma, Debbie-"The Effect of Target Prototypicality on Categorization and Stereotyping" 2011.
Assistant Professor, California State University (Northridge)
