The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
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Chicago, IL, 60637
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Kevin Mulqueeny
Background
Kevin graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Psychology in 2007. He joined the developmental psychology program the following Autumn, working with Janellen Huttenlocher. His trial research project, entitled “Where is it? Children’s use of grounds in locative phrases,” studied how young children use language to describe the location of objects. He spent the 2009-10 academic year as a teaching intern for Mind, a core undergraduate course in the Social Sciences.
Research Interests
In addition to his interests in children’s spatial language development, Kevin is also exploring embodied theories of language processing. When we perceive language, do we derive its meaning through a simulation process that relates words to their real-world counterparts?
Publications
Treiman, R., Cohen, J., Mulqueeny, K., Kessler, B., & Schechtman, S. (2007). Young children’s knowledge about printed names. Child Development, 78, 1458–1471.
Conference Talks and Posters
Mulqueeny, K.J., Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2011, April). On what grounds? The emergence of young children’s descriptions of location. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
Sommers, M., Barcroft, J., & Mulqueeny, K. (2008, November). Further studies of acoustic variability and vocabulary learning. Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.
Weekes, B.S., Mulqueeny, K., & Holliday, R.E. (2007, August). Phonological false recollection: An EEG study. British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience. Dundee, U.K.
Mulqueeny, K. (2007, May). The effect of multiple talkers on English vocabulary learning. Undergraduate Research Symposium. St. Louis, MO.
Mulqueeny, K., Snook, S., Holliday, R.E., & Weekes, B.S. (2006, November). Effects of spelling rime consistency on phonological false recollection. Psychonomic Society. Houston, TX.
Treiman, R., Cohen, J., Mulqueeny, K., Kessler, B., & Schechtman, S. (2006, July). Young children’s knowledge about printed names. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Vancouver, Canada.
