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.
Alibali, Martha - “Processes of Cognitive Change Revealed in Gesture and
Speech.” 1994.
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Mix, Kelly - “Preschoolers' Recognition of Cardinal Equivalence.”
1995.
Associate Professor, Indiana University
Sandberg, Elisabeth - “Development of Spatial Representation: The Emergence
of Hierarchical Organization.” 1995.
Associatet Professor, Suffolk University
Albro, Elizabeth - “The Role of Liking In Children's Memories and Appraisal
of Peer Conflicts.” 1996.
Researcher, Institute of Education Sciences, US Dept. of Education
Wei, Jianping - “Chromatic Induction from Complex Surrounds.” 1996.
Lens Designer
Compton, Rebecca - “Interactions between Mood and Left-Right Asymmetries in
Attention.” 1997.
Assistant Professor, Haverford College
Garber, Philip - “Using Gesture and Speech to Index Planning in a
Problem-Solving Task: A Comparative Study of Adults and Children Explaining the
Tower of Hanoi Puzzle.” 1997.
Director of University Assessment, National Lewis University
Jin, Wenying - “The Role of Color Memory in Mediating Successive Color
Constancy.” 1998.
Principal Engineer, Polaroid Corporation
Barr, Dale - “ A Theory Of Dynamic Coordination For Conversational
Interaction” 2000.
Assistant Professor, University of California at Riverside
Kelly, Spencer Dougan - “Children’s Understanding of Pragmatically Ambiguous
Speech: Have We Been Missing The Point?” 2000.
Assistant Professor, Colgate College
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
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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 Rochester.
Fenn, Kimberly – “Waking Up to the Impact of Sleep: Consolidation
of Generalized Skill Learning and Declarative Memory Formation” 2006
Research Associate. University of Chicago
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.
