Levine Lab
Principal Investigator
Dr. Susan Levine
Susan
Levine is a professor in the Department of Psychology where she serves as chair
of the developmental psychology program.
She is also a core faculty member on the newly formed Committee on
Education at the University of Chicago. She received her B.S. at Simmons College and her Ph.D. at
M.I.T. Dr. Levine's research examines
how variations in home and school input affect the cognitive development of
children, including language, spatial and mathematical skills. She also examines plasticity of language
and cognitive skills following early brain injury.
Email:
s-levine@uchicago.edu
Link
to: Susan Levine's CV and publications
Graduate Students
I am interested in early language development of both typically-developing and
atypically-developing children. My current research focuses on cross-linguistic
variation in speech and gesture. Specifically, I am interested in whether
gesture can contain information that is not expressed in speech, and thus can
be used to augment the tools provided by children's spoken languages. My second
line of work focuses on early language learning in children with early
unilateral brain injury. Currently, I am investigating their verb learning and
its relation to the development of representations that underlie verbs in other
domains, e.g. gesture and motor abilities.
email: ece@uchicago.edu
Website:(http://psychology.uchicago.edu/academics/doctoral/cognition/students/ecedemir.shtml)
My interests are in the area of language development. In my research,
I examine the relation between language input and language development
for monolingual and bilingual children. Currently, I'm using
naturalistic methods to study the relation between children's exposure
to English and Spanish and their subsequent bilingualism. My work on
language input has also included using syntactic priming techniques to
assess syntactic development in monolinguals and bilinguals. In
addition, my research has focused on language learning in bilingual
education programs in the areas of literacy and science.
email: perla@uchicago.edu
Website:(http://psychology.uchicago.edu/academics/doctoral/developmental/students.shtml)
I am interested in number development in both typically developing and atypically developing children. My research interests can be categorized into three topics: 1) what the young infant representation of number is like, 2) how young children's understanding of number can be improved, and 3) how similar/different number development in young children with early unilateral brain injury is to/from number development in typically developing children.
email: mkwon@uchicago.edu
Website:(http://psychology.uchicago.edu/academics/doctoral/cognition/students/Mkwon.shtml)
I am interested in language and gesture development in both typically
developing (TD) and atypically developing children. I'm currently investigating
early speech and gesture development from 14 months to 5 years in TD children
and children with early unilateral brain injury. Additionally, I'm interested
in the role input may play in this development.
email: easauer@uchicago.edu
email: sjyang@uchicago.edu
Postdocs
email: carlsonmt@uchicago.edu
Joan Fisher
My post-doctoral research is being conducted as part of the longitudinal
program project involving Susan Levine, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Janellen Huttenlocher
and Steven Small. My primary role is to
investigate language and gesture development in children with unilateral
lesions acquired early in life. I have developed a storytelling task, combined
with MRI and NIRS technologies, to investigate the development of narrative
skills.
email: joan@uchicago.edu
Website: (http://home.uchicago.edu/~joan/)
email: mkrakows@uchicago.edu
Kristin
Ratliff
Kristin received her B.A. in Psychology from the University
of Oklahoma in 2001 and her Ph.D.
in Cognitive Psychology from Temple University
in 2007. In her graduate work with Nora Newcombe,
Kristin studied spatial cognition and navigation, specifically the
circumstances under which geometric and nongeometric information is utilized
during reorientation. Kristin's postdoctoral research interests include the development
of spatial understanding and concepts, mental rotation, and early quantitative
development as it relates to measurement and map use.
email: krratliff@uchicago.edu
Research Assistant
Jessica graduated with a BA in Psychology and History
from Wellesley College in 2007. She has been working for the Spatial
Intelligence and Learning Center since June 2007, conducting research
on sex and socioeconomic differences in the development of spatial
skills. Jessica plans to pursue a PhD in Cognitive Development and a Master's Degree in Public Policy in 2009.
email: jfsaunders@uchicago.edu
Undergraduate Student
email: axelaeel@uchicago.edu
Alums
Graduate Students
Stacy Ehrlich - Researcher at NEIREL Education Development Center. Stacy's main interests are in the area of early math development, particularly in relation to the educational setting. Her research has included examination of teacher input in Head Start vs. middle-income preschool classrooms and its' relation to student achievement. She is also involved in research on sex differences in early spatial skills, and the effects of training and gesture on children's improvment on mental manipulation tasks. Stacy is currently a Research Associate at the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory (NEIREL) at Education Development Center in the Boston area. NEIREL is contracted under IES to provide research and technical assistance to the states in the northeast region to support educational policy decisions.
Stella Lourenco - Assistant Professor at Emory University
Department of Psychology
532
Kilgo Circle, Room 323
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Office phone: 404-727-7448
Lab phone: 404-727-2988
Faculty website: http://psychology.emory.edu/cognition/lourenco/index.html
Lab website: http://psychology.emory.edu/cognition/lourenco/lab
Linda Whealton
Suriyakham -
Linda is a Clinician at the Stonington Institute in Stonington, CT, and works with adolescent girls in an inpatient psychiatric hospital. She is doing postdoctoral clinical coursework at the Massachusetts School for Professional Psychology in Boston, MA.
email: whealton@uchicago.edu
Postdocs
Ty Boyer
I was a postdoctoral fellow in the University
of Chicago, Department of
Psychology from August 2005 to August 2007. I received a BS from Arizona
State University
in 2000, and PhD from the University
of Maryland in 2005. While at UofC
Susan Levine, Janellen Huttenlocher, and I did a number of projects that
analyzed the development of quantitative and spatial reasoning. One large
project involved a detailed analysis of elementary school aged kids abilities
to process proportional information, and the sorts of things that might contribute
to errors in solving proportion problems. I am presently a postdoc in the
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Indiana
University and can be reached at tywboyer@indiana.edu .
Joanna Cannon
Raquel Klibanoff
Tracy Soloman
RAs
Karyn Brasky
Laura Chang
Elaine Croft
Kristin Duboc
Jennifer Griffin
Kelsey Harden -- currently at the University of Chicago in Social Work
Carrie Meanwell
Erica Mellum
Molly Nikolas
Jana Oberholzer
Anjali Raja -- currently at the University of Toronto
Lilia Rissman
Becky Seibel
Kevin Uttich -- currently at the University of California, Berkeley
Julie
Wallman
