Developmental Psychology PhD Students

Student			Affiliations	Research question (one per lab)
John Franchak			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do perception and action change across the lifespan?
Simone Gill-Alvarez			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do children and adults develop behavioral flexibility - the ability to adapt their movements to changes in local conditions?
Shaziela Ishak			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do infants learn to make adaptive motor decisions in risky situations?
Leah Lurye			Social Developmental	How does gender development relate to issues of identity, social judgments of others, and adjustment?
Cristina Rabaglia			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How is language ability built on the architecture of human cognition?
Hugh Rabagliati			Cognition & Perception Developmental	What mechanisms do infants use to discover and then acquire language?
Maria Ramos			Community Developmental	What is the relationship between maternal work goals, welfare-to-work program assignment, and children's academic and behavioral outcomes?
Sarah Shuwairi Carton			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do coherent object representations develop in early infancy? (with Scott Johnson) What are the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying our perception of continuous and coherent 3D objects under conditions of occlusion? (with Scott Johnson, Clay Curtis, and Nava Rubin)
Kasey Soska			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How does the perception of 3D objects develop over the first year of life? (with Scott Johnson) How does infant manual exploration develop in various postures? (with Karen Adolph)
Dawn Witherspoon			Community Quantitative Developmental	How are positive neighborhood processes and structural characteristics related to adolescent development among ethnically diverse groups?
Kristina Zosuls			Social Developmental	Do girls play with dolls because they know they are girls and that's what girls do? (with Diane Ruble) What are people's attitudes towards women balancing careers and motherhood? (with Madeline Heilman)
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