- Susan Levine Lab
Susan Levine
February 2007
CURRICULUM VITAE
SUSAN C. LEVINE
ADDRESS: The University of Chicago
Department
of Psychology
Green
401
5848
South University Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
EMAIL: s-levine@uchicago.edu
1972 B.S. Simmons College, Boston, MA
1976
Ph.D. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Department of Psychology
Dissertation: Face Recognition in Children: Evidence for the Development of Right
Hemisphere Specialization
Advisor: Susan Carey
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago and Wyler Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 1976-1983
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago and Wyler Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 1983-1993
Professor, Department of Psychology, 1994 - Present
Core Faculty Member, Committee on Education, 2005 - Present
PSYCHOLOGY LICENSE: Illinois License Number 071-3261
SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:
American Psychological Association,
Division 7
American Psychological Society
Society for Research on Child
Development
Cognitive Development Society
Cognitive Science
AD HOC REVIEWER:
Science; Neuropsychologia; Brain and
Cognition; Brain and Language; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Child
Development; Developmental Psychology; Psychological Bulletin; Cognitive
Science; Journal of Cognition and Development
UNIVERSITY
COMMITTEES AND COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Consultant
on Early Math: Sesame Street
Committee
on Early Childhood Mathematics, Thae National Academies
Chair,
Developmental Psychology, 2005 - Present
Chair,
Developmental Search Committee, 2005 - 2006
Chair,
Cognitive Search Committee, 2004-2005
Board
Member, Graham School of Continuing Studies, 2005 - Present
Board
Member, Chapin Hall 2004 -
Social
Sciences IRB Board 2001 - 2004
University
Athletic Board, 1996-1999
Chair,
Social Sciences Master Search Committee, 1999-
Co-Chair,
Center for Early Childhood Research, 1998 - 2005
Chair,
Curriculum Committee, Department of Psychology, 1998-2002, 2005 - Present
Chair,
Committee on Cognition and Communication, Department of Psychology, 1995-1999
University
Faculty Council, 1990 - 1992, 1994-1996, 2005-2008
University
Faculty Committee of the Council, 2005-2006
Resident
Master, Woodward Court Dormitory, 1994-1998
Executive
Committee, Psychology Department, 1992-1994; 1998-2000, 2004 -
Chairman,
Fellowship Committee, Women's Committee of the Brain Research Foundation, 1989- 1992
Provost's
Committee on Continuing Education, 1991-1994
Chairperson,
Harris Visiting Professor Committee, 1991-92
Chair,
Educational Psychology Special Field, Department of Education, 1989-1991
Faculty
Fellow, Woodward Court
Faculty
Adviser, Ronald McDonald House
Dean's
Symposium Committee, Social Sciences
Galler
Prize Committee, Social Sciences
College
Discipline Committee
Chair,
Social Sciences Core Course (Mind)
April 1, 2002 - March 31, 2007: NIH Program Project Grant: Environmental and biological variation in language growth (Total: 6.9 million, Levine project: $757, 282). (Currently applying for renewal).
September 15, 2006 - September 14, 2008: Co- PI, NSF Science of Learning Center Grant (Spatial Intelligence Learning Center, (3.5 million) Renewal possible for up to seven additional years.
January 2006- December 2008: Multimodalite Project Subcontract from Grenoble University to Susan C. Levine and Susan Goldin-Meadow, $9000.
Introduction
to Developmental Psychology
Mind (Social Sciences Core Course)
Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology
Early Mathematical Thinking
Functional Plasticity in Language Development
Developmental Neuropsychology
Environmental Effects on Cognitive Growth
Special Populations: Lessons for Developmental Psychology
Mix, K.S., Huttenlocher J., & Levine, S.C. (2002) Quantitative development in infancy and early childhood. Oxford University Press.
Leehey (Levine), S.C., Moscowitz-Cook, A., Brill, S., and Held, R. (1975) Orientational anisotropy in human infants. Science, 190, 900-902 [pdf]
Leehey (Levine), S.C., Carey, S., Diamond, R., and Cahn, A. (1978) Upright and inverted faces: The right hemisphere knows the difference. Cortex, 14, 411-419.
Leehey (Levine), S.C., and Cahn, A. (1979) Lateral asymmetries in the recognition of words, familiar faces, and unfamiliar faces. Neuropsychologia, 17, 619-635. [pdf]
Levine, S.C., and Koch-Weser, M. (1982) Right hemisphere superiority in the recognition of famous faces. Brain and Cognition, 1, 10-22. [pdf]
Levine, S.C., and Carey, S. (1982) Up front: The acquisition of a concept and a word. Journal of Child Language 9, 1982, 645-657. (Also appeared in Paper and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 15, August 1978.)
Levine, S.C., and Banich,
M. (1982) Lateral asymmetries in the naming of words and corresponding line
drawings. Brain and Language, 17, 34-45. [pdf]
Levine, S.C. (1983) Hemispheric specialization and functional plasticity during development. Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 16, 1983, 77-98. Reprinted in: A Child's Brain, Mary Frank (Ed.), New York: The Haworth Press.
Levine, S.C., and Banich, M.T. (1984) Possible effects of forced report order on tachistoscopic recognition of bilaterally presented stimuli: A response to Young and Ellis. Brain and Language, 21, 364-374. [pdf]
Levine, S.C., Banich M.T.,
and Koch-Weser, M. (1984) Variations in patterns of lateral asymmetry among
dextrals. Brain and Cognition,
3, 317-334. [pdf]
Pedelty, L., Levine, S.C., and Shevell, S. (1985) Developmental changes in face processing: Results from multidimensional scaling. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 39, 1985, 421-436.
Levine, S.C. (1985) Developmental change in right hemisphere involvement in face recognition. In Catherine Best (Ed.), Developmental Neuropsychology and Education: Hemispheric Function and Collaboration. New York: Academic Press, 1985.
Levine, S.C., and Levy, J. (1986) Perceptual asymmetry for chimeric faces across the lifespan. Brain and Cognition, 5, 291-306.
Levine, S.C., Banich, M.T. and Kim, H. (1987) Variations in arousal asymmetry: Implications for face processing. In David Ottoson (Ed.) Duality and unity of the brain. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, 207-222.
Levine, S.C., Huttenlocher, P., Banich, M.T., and Duda E. (1987) Factors affecting cognitive functioning in hemiplegic children. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 27, 27-35.
Reprinted in: Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development (1988). S. Chess, A. Thomas and M.E. Hertzig, (Eds.), 540-558, Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel.
Tonsgard, J., Hardwicke, N. and Levine, S.C. (1987) The Kluver-Bucy syndrome in children. Pediatric Neurology, 3, 162-165.
Levine,
S.C., Banich, M.T., and Koch-Weser, M. (1988) Face recognition: A general or specific right hemisphere
capacity? Brain and Cognition, 8,
303-325. [pdf]
Levine, S.C. (1989) The question of faces: Special is in the brain of the beholder. In Hayden Ellis and Andrew Young (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Face Processing, Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company.
Banich, M.T., Levine, S.C., Kim, H., and Huttenlocher, P. (1990) The effects of developmental factors on IQ in hemiplegic children. Neuropsychologia, 28, 35-48. [pdf]
Huttenlocher, P., Levine, S.C., Huttenlocher, J. & Gates, J. (1990) Discrimination of normal and at-risk children on the basis of neurological tests. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 332, 394-402.
Kim, H.,
Levine, S.C. and Kertesz, S. (1990) Are variations among subjects in lateral
asymmetry real individual differences or random error in measurements? Putting variability in its place. Brain and Cognition,14,
230-242. [pdf]
Huttenlocher, J. and Levine, S.C. (1990) Primary Test of Cognitive Skills, MacMillan/MacGraw-Hill.
Kim, H. and Levine, S.C. (1991)
Inferring patterns of hemispheric specialization for individual subjects from
laterality data: A two-task
criterion. Neuropsychologia, 29,
93-105. [pdf]
Kim, H. and
Levine, S.C. (1991) Sources of between-subjects variability in asymmetry
scores: A meta-analytic review. Neuropsychologia, 29, 877-888. [pdf]
Levine, S.C.,
Huttenlocher, J., and Jordan, N. (1992)
Development of calculation abilities in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
53, 72-93. [pdf]
Kim, H. and Levine, S.C. (1992) Variations in characteristic perceptual
asymmetry: Modality specific and
modality general components. Brain
and Cognition, 19, 21-47. [pdf]
Jordan, N.C., Huttenlocher, J. and Levine, S.C. (1992) Differential calculation abilities in young children from middle- and low-income families. Developmental Psychology, 28, 644-653. [pdf]
Levine, S.C. (1993) Effects of early unilateral lesions: Changes over the course of development. In G. Turkewitz and D. Devenny (Eds.), Developmental Time and Timing, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Jordan, N.C., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (1994). Differential calculation abilities in young children with special needs: Linking research with assessment and instruction. In N.C. Jordan & J. Goldsmith-Phillips (Eds.), Learning disabilities: New directions for assessment and intervention, Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Jordan, N.C., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (1994) Development of calculation abilities in middle- and low-income children after formal instruction in school. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 15, 223-240.
Kim, H. & Levine, S.C. (1994) Variance differences in asymmetry scores on
bilateral vs. unilateral laterality tasks.
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 11, 479-498. [pdf]
Huttenlocher,
J., Jordan, N. & Levine, S.C. (1994) A
mental model for early arithmetic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 284-296. [pdf]
Jordan, N.C., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (1994) Assessing calculation abilities in middle and low-income preschool children: Effects of response type and income level. Learning and Individual Differences, 6, 413-432.
Levine, S.C. (1995) Individual Difference in Characteristic Arousal Asymmetry: Implications for Cognitive Functioning. In F.L. Kitterle, Ed., Hemispheric Communication: Mechanisms and Models, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Jordan, N., Levine, S.C., and
Huttenlocher, J. (1995) Calculation
abilities in young children with different patterns of cognitive
functioning. Journal of Learning
Disabilities, 28(1), 53-64. [pdf]
Mix, K., Huttenlocher, J. and Levine, S.C. (1996) Do preschool children recognize auditory-visual numerical correspondences? Child Development, 67, 1592-1608.
Compton, R. and Levine, S.C. (1997) Menstrual cycle phase and mood effects on perceptual asymmetry. Brain and Cognition, 35, 168-183.
Mix, K.,
Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (1997) Numerical abstraction in
infants: Another look. Developmental Psychology, 33,
423-428. [pdf]
Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S.C. & Vevea, J. (1998) Environmental effects on cognitive growth: Input from school. Child Development, 69, 1012-1029. [pdf]
Mix, K.S., Levine, S.C. and Huttenlocher, J. (1999). Early fraction calculation ability. Developmental Psychology, 35, 164-174. [pdf]
Levine, S.C.,
Huttenlocher, J., Taylor, A. & Langrock, A. (1999) Early sex differences in
spatial ability. Developmental
Psychology, 35, 940-949. [pdf]
Gao, F., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2000) What do infants know about continuous quantity? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 77, 20-29.
Mix, K., Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S.C. (2002) Multiple Cues for Quantification in infancy: Is number one of them? Psychological Bulletin, 128, 278-294. [pdf]
Chang, P., Levine, S.C. and Benson, P. (2002) Children's recognition of caricatures. Developmental Psychology, 38, 1038-1051. [pdf]
Huttenlocher, J., Duffy, S., & Levine, S.C. (2002) Infants and toddlers discriminate amount: Are they measuring? Psychological Science, 13, 244-249. [pdf]
Huttenlocher, J., Vasilyeva, M., Cymerman, E., & Levine, S.C. (2002) Language input at home and at school: Relation to syntax. Cognitive Psychology, 45, 337-374. [pdf]
Levine, S.C., Regier, T. & Solomon, T. (2002) Did residual normality really have a chance? Brain and Behavioral Sciences 25, 759-760.
Duffy, S. Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S.C.
(2005) How infants encode spatial extent? Infancy, 8, 81-90. [pdf]
Duffy, S., Huttenlocher,
J., & Levine, S. (2005) It is all relative: How young children encode extent. Journal
of Cognition and Development 6, 51-63. [pdf]
Levine, S.C., Vasilyeva, M., Lourenco, S., Newcombe, N. & Huttenlocher, J. (2005) Socioeconomic status modifies the sex difference in spatial skill. Psychological Science, 16, 841-845. [pdf]
Levine, S.C., Kraus, R., Alexander, E., Suriyakhan, L., & Huttenlocher, P. (2005) IQ decline following early unilateral brain injury: A longitudinal study. Brain and Cognition, 59, 114-123. [pdf]
Klibanoff, R., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J., Vasilyeva, M. & Hedges, L. (2006) Preschool Children's Mathematical Knowledge: The effect of teacher "math talk". Developmental Psychology, 42, 59-69. [pdf]
Ehrlich, S., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006) The importance of gesture in children's spatial reasoning. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1259-1268. [pdf]
Jeong, Y., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007) The development of proportional reasoning: Effect of continuous vs. discrete quantities, Journal of Cognition and Development.
Stiles, J., Nass, R.D., Levine, S.C., Moses, P. & Reilly, J.S. (in press) Perinatal stroke: Effects and outcomes. In K.O. Yeates, M.D. Ris, H.G. Taylor, and B. Pennington (Eds.) Pediatric Neuropsychology Research, Theory, and Practice (2nd edition). New York: The Guildford Press.
Reilly, J. Levine, S., Nass, R. and Stiles, J. (in press) Brain Plasticity: Evidence from children with prenatal brain injury. In Reed, J and J Warner (Eds.) Child Neuropsychology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Suriyakham, L. W., Ehrlich, S.B., & Levine, S.C. Revisiting the role of heterogeneity in infants' sensitivity to number. Developmental Science.
Rowe, M. L., Levine, S.C., Fisher, J., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007). The joint effects of biology and input on the language development of brain-injured children, under review.
Ozcaliskan, S., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007). Gesturing with an injured brain: How gesture helps children with early brain injury learn linguistic constructions.
Sauer, E., Levine, S.C., Goldin-Meadow, S. & Rowe, M. (2007). Gesture and vocabulary development in children with early unilateral brain injury, under review.
Sauer, E., Levine, S.C., Rowe, M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007). Early gesture and language development in brain injured children: Evidence for an integrated system.
Boyer, T., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). Early proportional reasoning: Processing continuous and discrete proportions.
Levine, S.C., Suriyakham, L., Rowe, M. & Huttenlocher, J. (2008). What counts in preschoolers' development of cardinology knowledge? A longitudinal investigation.
Cannon, J., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2008). Early play with puzzles predicts preschoolers' spatial skill: A longitudinal investigation.
Solomon, T., Vasilyeva, M. & Levine, S.C. Learning to use a ruler: The long and the short of it.
Solomon, T., Vasilyeva, M., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. Development of graph understanding in young children.
Cannon, J., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J. The structure of the intellect in young children: Early sex differences.
Cannon, J., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J. A longitudinal examination of the relation between spatial language input and children's spatial development.
Cannon, J., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Levine, S. C. Gesture predicts preschoolers' spatial ability.
Cannon, J., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J. Are young children part-whole thinkers? Children's strategies for solving proportional equivalence problems.
Raja, A.C., Gouven, J., Suriyakham, L.W., Dick, A.S., Huttenlocher, P., Levine, S.C., & Small, S.L. Regional brain activation after early left and right hemisphere stroke: Relation to cognitive functioning.
COLLOQUIA AND PRESENTATIONS (not complete)
Leehey, S.C., Moscowitz-Cook, A., Brill, S. and Held, R. (1975, April) Orientational anisotropy in human infants. Association for Research in Vision Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Florida.
Leehey, S.C. (1976, April) Development of right hemisphere specialization. Eastern Psychological Association, New York.
Leehey, S.C. (1977, March) A developmental change in right hemisphere specialization. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, New Orleans.
Leehey, S.C. and Carey, S. (1978, March) Up front: The acquisition of a concept and a word. Stanford Child Language Conference, Palo Alto, California.
Levine, S.C. (1980, May) Development of right hemisphere specialization and sparing of language after early brain damage. Colloquium at Northwestern University.
Levine, S.C. (1980, May) Discussant, Panel on Spatial Abilities, Behavioral genetics Association Meeting, Chicago.
Levine, S.C. (1980, August) Sloan Conference on Hemisphere Specialization, Santa Barbara, California.
Pedelty, L., Levine, S.C., and Shevell, S.K. (1981, April) Developmental changes in face recognition as assessed by multidimensional scaling. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Boston.
Levine, S.C. (1981, April) Developmental changes in right hemisphere involvement in face recognition. Conference on Neuroscience and Education, Columbia University.
Levine, S.C. (1984, April) Hemispheric specialization and functional plasticity during development: Evidence from hemiplegic children. Orton Dyslexia Society Meeting, Chicago.
Danis, C. and Levine, S.C. (1985, April). Object-intrinsic and gravitational rules for comprehending "top" and "bottom." Society for Research on Child Development, Toronto.
Levine, S.C. and Levy, J. (1985, April) Perceptual asymmetry for chimeric faces across the lifespan. Society for research on child development, Toronto.
Levine, S.C. (1986, March) Variations in hemispheric arousal asymmetry among dextrals. Colloquium at Northwestern University.
Levine, S.C. (1986, May) Variations in arousal asymmetry: Implications for face processing. Conference on "Unified Functioning of the Asymmetric Brain." Stockholm, Sweden.
Levine, S.C. (1986, July) Two hemispheres are better than one. Idaho Medical Association, Sun Valley, Idaho.
Levine, S.C. (1986, July) Functional plasticity during development. Idaho Medical Association, Sun Valley, Idaho.
Levine, S.C. (1987, April) The brain game: Variations in development. Brain Research Foundation, Chicago, IL.
Levine, S.C. (1988, April) Developmental consequences of early brain damage. Brain Research Foundation, Chicago, IL.
Levine, S.C. and Huttenlocher, J. (1988, April) Patterns of cognitive functioning in young learning disabled children. Northwestern University.
Levine, S.C. (1988, May) A neuropsychological interpretation of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. A Symposium and Art Exhibit, The Art Institute, Chicago.
Levine, S.C., Banich, M., Kim, H., and Huttenlocher, P. (1989, February) Developmental effects on IQ in hemiplegic children. International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Vancouver.
Kim, H., and Levine, S.C. (1989, February) Factors affecting subjects' asymmetry scores: A multivariate analysis. International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Vancouver.
Heller, W. and Levine, S.C. (1989, February) Unilateral neglect after early brain damage. International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Vancouver.
Jordan, N., Levine, S.C., and Huttenlocher, J. (1989, March) Verbal and non-verbal arithmetic calculation abilities in pre-school children. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.
Levine, S.C., and Banich, M.T. (1990, February) Hemispheric involvement in face processing in children with early unilateral brain damage. International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Kim, H., and Levine, S.C. (1990, February) Inferring patterns of hemispheric specialization for individual subjects from laterality studies. International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Kim, H., and Levine, S.C. (1990, February) Are subjects' characteristic perceptual asymmetries modality-general or modality-specific? International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Orlando, Fl.
Jordan, N.C., Levine, S.C. and Huttenlocher, J. (1991, April) Verbal and nonverbal calculation abilities in preschool children. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.
Jordan, N.C., Levine, S.C. and Huttenlocher, J. (1991, April) Nonverbal calculation abilities in three-to-five year old children. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Seattle, Washington.
Levine, S.C. (1991, April). Individual Differences in Characteristic Arousal Asymmetry: Implications for Cognitive Functioning. Toledo Symposium on Behavioral Research.
Levine, S.C., Yen, S. and Kim, H. (1992, February) Lateralized attentional orienting: Effects of characteristic arousal asymmetry. International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, San Diego.
Lazarus, T.E. & Levine, S.C. (1992, February) The development of the right hemisphere's attentional orienting capacity. International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, San Diego.
Jordan, N.C., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (1992, April) Socioeconomic variation and the development of calculation abilities in first-grade children. Paper presented at annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California.
Levine, S.C., Baranes, R. and Huttenlocher, P.R. Effects of early lesions: Changes over the course of development (1992, July) International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Durham, England.
Levine, S.C. (1993, April) Differential grade effects on verbal and nonverbal arithmetic. Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, New Orleans.
Huttenlocher, J. & Levine, S.C., & Jordan, N. (1993, November) A mental model for early arithmetic. Psychonomic Society Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Mix, K.S., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (1994, May) Infants' detection of auditory-visual numerical correspondences: Another look. Midwest Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago.
Mix, K.S., Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S.C. (1994, June) Recognition of auditory-visual numerical correspondences in infancy and childhood. Poster presented at Twenty-fourth Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago.
Pitts, E.C., Compton, R.J., Church, R.B., Baranes, R., & Levine, S.C. (1994, July) Gesture-speech mismatches in conservation: The effects of early unilateral brain damage. Paper presented at Twenty-fourth Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago.
Compton, R.J. & Levine, S.C. (1996, June) Mood and perceptual asymmetry during the menstrual cycle. International Neuropsychological Society, Veldhoven, The Netherlands.
Gao, F. and Levine, S.C. (1996, June) The effect of cognitive load on interhemispheric processing. International Neuropsychological Society, Veldhoven, The Netherlands..
Levine, S.C., Huttenlocher, J., and Mix, K. (1997, February) What young children know about mathematics. Invited Lecture at Learning Disabilities Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Levine, S.C. Neuroscience and Education: What do we know about the brain that has implication for education? (1997, March) American Education Association Annual Meeting.
Mix, K.S. & Levine, S.C. (1997, March) Fraction and mixed number calculation ability in four- to seven-year-olds. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Washington, D.C..
Levine, S.C. (1998, June) Development of face recognition skills. Chicago workshop in computational neuroscience: Cortical dynamics and function.
Levine, S.C. , Gao, F. & Jeong, Y. (1999, April) Is it harder to quantify discrete entities or continuous amounts? Paper presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Washington, D.C.
Levine, S.C. Nonverbal math skills in pre-schoolers - findings of the University of Chicago Early Childhood Initiative. (1999, September) Invited talk presented at Conference on Language, Reasoning and Early Mathematical Development, University College London.
Levine, S.C. (1999, October) Discussant, Neural bases of spatial cognition. NSF Spatial Intelligence Conference. Chicago.
Levine, S.C. & Gao, F. (2001, April) Children's understanding of cardinal equivalence in large discrete sets. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Minneapolis.
Duffy, S. & Levine, S.C. (2001, April). Children's use of relational information in discriminating continuous quantity. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Minneapolis.
Levine, S.C. (2001, October) Research at the Center for Early Childhood Research. Paper presented at National Black Child Development Institute, Washington, D.C.
Klibanoff, R. & Levine, S.C. (2003, March) Teachers' quantitative input affects preschoolers' quantitative growth. Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Child Development, Tampa, Florida.
Jeong, Y. & Levine, S.C. (2003, March) Children's understanding of relative quantity: Continuous amount vs. discrete number. Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Child Development, Tampa, Florida.
Levine, S.C. (2003) Language and cognitive development after early unilateral brain injury. Invited Talk, Department of Speech and Communicative Disorders, Northwestern University.
Ehrlich, S. & Levine, S.C. (2003) Effects of training on sex differences in spatial skills. Presented at Cognitive Development Society, Park City, Utah.
Whealton, L. & Levine, S.C. (2003) Multiple representations of quantity in children ages 4 - 6. Presented at Cognitive Development Society, Park City Utah.
Ehrlich, S., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005, April). The effects of training on boys' and girls' mental transformation skills and strategies. Paper presented as part of a symposium, "Early gender differences in spatial skills: How to intervene to improve spatially-based mathematical thinking. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta.
Solomon, T. & Levine, S.C. (2005, April) Yong children's ability to use landmark configurations. Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta.
Levine, S.C., Vasilyeva, M., Lourenco, S., Newcombe, N., & Huttenlocher, J. (2005, April) The sex difference in spatial skill: Sensitivity to Socioeconomic status. Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta.
Jeong, Y. & Levine, S.C. (2005, April) How do young children represent numerosity? Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta.
Josse, G., Raja, A. C., Lobo, N., Suriyakham, L. W., Wineburgh, L. F., Huttenlocher, P. R., Levine, S. C., & Small, S. L. (2005, April) Right-hemispheric activation following early left brain injury predicts better cognitive skills: An fMRI study [abstract]. Paper presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Miami.
Brasky, K., Nikolas, M., Meanwell, C., Levine, S. & Goldin-Meadow. (2005, June) Language development in children with unilateral brain injury: Effects of lesion size. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin.
Schaal, A. Uttal, D., Goldin-Meadow, S. & Levine, S.C. (2005, June) Children's gestures provide insight into their mental representation of space. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago.
Josse, G., Skipper, J., Whealton-Suriyakham, L., Goldin-Meadow, S., Levine, S., Huttenlocher, P., Wineburgh, L., & Small, S. (2005, July) Language-associated gesture modulates areas of the brain involved in action observation and language comprehension [abstract]. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto.
Sauer, E., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2005, July) Learning words by hand and mouth in children with unilateral brain injury. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin.
Levine, S.C., Brasky, K. & Nikolas, M. (2005, July) The role of gesture in language development in brain injured children. Interanational Association for the Study of Child Language. Berlin, Germany.
Meyer, A., Schall, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006, April) A developmental perspective on the influence of gesture on spatial representation. Conference on Human Development. Louisville, Kentucky.
Schall, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006, April) Words, gestures and maps: Developmental changes in the integration of spatial information. Conference on Human Development. Louisville, Kentucky.
Demir, E. , Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006, June) Development of verbs and grammatical morphology in children with unilateral brain injury. Society for Research on Child Lnaguage Development, Madison, Wisconsin.
Meanwell, C., Simone, M., Levine, S. (2006, June) The effects of brain lesion laterality on early language acquisition. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin.
Sauer, E., Gripshover, S., Harden, K., Meanwell, C., Levine, S. (2006, June) Gesture development in children with early unilateral brain injury. Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin.
Raja, A.C., Josse, G., Suriyakham, L.W., Fisher, J.A., Huttenlocher, P.R., Levine, S.C., & Small, S.L. (2006, July). Regional brain activation after early left and right hemisphere stroke: Relation to cognitive functioning. 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Florence, Italy.
Suriyakham, L.W., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2006, July) A naturalistic study of input effects on the development of number concepts. Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver.
Arroyo, M., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2006, October) What counts as effective input for language learning? Presented at Boston Child Language Conference.
Levine, S.C. (2006, July) Language and gesture development go hand in hand: Typically developing children and children with early unilateral brain injury. University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Levine, S.C. (2007, February). Math in the Early Years: Starting points and the importance of experience, Chicago Metropolitan Association for the Education of Young Children.
Levine, S.C. (2007, March). Multimodality Grant Data Workshop. University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
Levine, S.C. (2007, March). Preschoolers mathematical and spatial skills: Effects of input. Invited Talk, University of Illinois, Departament of Psychology.
Cannon, J., Levine, S.C. & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March) Are young children part-whole thinkers? Children's strategies for solving proportional equivalence problems. Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston.
Levine, S.C. (2007, March) Mathematics and spatial development: The role of input. Chair, Paper Symposium. Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston.
Cannon, J., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March) Sex dfiferences in the relation of early puzzle play and mental transformation skill. Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston.
Boyer, T., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March) Proportional reasoning: Intuition, problem representation and problem-solving success. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Chld Development, Boston.
Ehrlich, S.B. & Levine, S.C. (2007, March) What low-SES children DO know about number: A comparison of hear start and tuition-based preschool children's number knowledge. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Chld Development, Boston.
Ehrlich, S.B., Levine, S.C., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007, March) Mathematical knowledge in low and middle-SES Preschoolers: The effect of teacher "math talk." Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Chld Development, Boston.
Sauer, E., Levine, S.C., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Rowe, M.L. (2007, March). Gesture and vocabulary development in children with early unilateral brain injury. Bieinnial Meeting of the Society for Research on Chld Development, Boston.
Levine, S.C. (2007, April) Development of mathematical and spatial skills: Effects of input. Invited Talk, University of Delaware, Department of Education.
Colletta, J.-M. & Levine, S.C. (2007, June) Gesture in early and late language development. Thematic Session. Submitted to International Society for Gesture Studies, Evanston, IL.
Ozcaliskan, S., Levine, S.C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2007, June) Learning to convey linguistic constructions in gesture and speech: A comparison of children with and without focal brain injury. Submitted to International Society for Gesture Studies, Evanston, IL.
Levine, S.C. (2008, March). Challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary research. Invited talk at Northwestern University, Department of Learning Sciences.
