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Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. 1993 (psychology), M.A. 1989 (psychology), Emory; B.A. 1986 (fine art), Sarah Lawrence College
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Research Interests: infant learning, perceptual-motor development, infant skill acquisition, exploratory activity, problem solving.
Fellowships/Honors: Recipient of the James McKeen Cattell Award, 2001-2002 (April 2002); Golden Dozen Teaching Award, 2001; Boyd McCandless Award, American Psychological Association, 1999; Distinguished Teaching Award, Psychology Department, New York University; 1998 Young Investigator Award, International Society for Infant Studies; 1998 NICHHD FIRST Award, Flexibility of Learning in Infant Skill Acquisition, 1996-2001.
Selected Works:
Specificity of Learning: Why Infants Fall Over a Veritable Cliff. Psychological Science. In press.
Walking infants adapt locomotion to changing body dimensions, with A. M Avolio. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. In press.
Flexibility and specificity in infant motor skill acquisition, with M. A. Eppler. In J. Fagan (Ed.). Advances in Infancy Research. In press.
Development of visually guided locomotion, with M. A. Eppler. Journal of Ecological Psychology: Special Issue on Visually Guided Locomotion, 10. 1998. 303-322.
Learning to crawl, with B. Vereijken & M. Denny. Child Development, 69. 1998. 1299-1312.
Learning in the development of infant locomotion. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 56, 3, Serial No. 251. 1997.
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