Hi! My name is Andrea Stevenson. I graduated from the University of Western Ontario, Canada with an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Bachelor of Education. For three years, I taught at the elementary level. Currently, I am working as the lab coordinator in the Lab for Child Development in order to enhance my knowledge of how children learn and understand.

Rebecca Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
reba@jhu.edu

Broadly, I am interested in object and number representation, as well as working memory capacity, in infants and young children. Specifically, I have focused on the distinction between infants' representations of the types of entities we typically associate with the word "object" such as cups or balls, versus their representations of non-solid and non-cohesive entities such as sand. I also have a secondary research program that addresses the role of spatial language in toddlers' and young children's ability to reason about hidden objects and scenes.

Jennifer Zosh, Ph.D.
5th year graduate student
jzosh2@jhu.edu
http://www.psy.jhu.edu/~zosh/

I am currently finishing my Ph.D. in the Laboratory for Child Development here at Johns Hopkins. My dissertation is examining the “what” and “how many” of working memory in infants. For instance, if young infants see a cat, a shoe, and a spoon hidden in the box, do they remember information about the identity of those objects or simply that three toys are in the box? Also, I am investigating how many objects infants can remember and if it is harder or easier to remember familiar versus novel objects. Finally, I am investigating young infants’ ability to store information about multiple sets of large numbers of objects in parallel.

Mariko Yamaguchi, M.A.
4th year graduate student
mariko.yamaguchi@jhu.edu
http://www.psy.jhu.edu/~yamaguchi/

I'm currently working on two general lines of research in the lab. The first set of projects looks at the limits of working memory. In one project, I am investigating the role of chunking and sets in defining working memory capacity limits. In another project, I'm investigating the flexibility of these representations and the interaction between working memory and attention. The second line of research is in collaboration with Chad, examining preschoolers' abilities to make logical inferences using information they already know to gain new information.

Chad Spiegel
2nd year graduate student
cspiege2@jhu.edu

Toddlers and young children spend much of their time learning from the environment around them. Even without the aid of direct instruction from parents or teachers children are actively learning new words, identifying new people and locations, and forming new conceptual ideas. My research focuses on the logical reasoning strategies children employ in these everyday learning scenarios. Specifically I conduct experiments that examine logical strategies for learning the meanings of novel words and associating novel faces and voices under ambiguous learning conditions.

Rachel Austin
Junior

I am a junior psychology major, and this is my second year in the lab. I am very happy about being a part of the lab, and am looking forward to learning more about how children develop, and putting my knowledge to use in the future as I go on to teach elementary school.

Mike Yuan
Junior

I am a junior behavioral biology major and this is my first year in the Lab for Child Development. I look forward to learning about infant numerical cognition. I am excited to work and interact with kids, and intend on using the skills and knowledge I develop to pursue a medical career in pediatrics.

Meg Bowen
Sophomore

I am a sophomore psychology and philosophy double major. This is my first year at the lab. I will be working on a brand new study, which is going to be really exciting. I want to work in the field of research psychology, so I am really excited to get some hands on experience!!

Len Taing
M.A. 2006
Thesis: Counting in deaf and hearing individuals: An interaction of language and thought

Summer Internship Program 2009

Back (from left): Nick Minar, Andrea Stevenson, Katie Muenks, Kirsten Schohl, Darko Odic

Row 2 (from left): Micaela Gonzalez, Hee Yeon Im, Jessica Koski, Chad Spiegel

Row 1 (from left): Xin Yuen, Mariko Yamaguchi, Katie Hudson, Rebecca Rosenberg

Front (from left): Justin Halberda, Lisa Feigenson

Summer Internship Program 2008

Back (from left): Ellen McClure, Jenn Zosh, Lisa Feigenson, Justin Halberda, Kate Ekman, Mariko Yamaguchi

Front (from left): Andrea Stevenson, Miyuki Nishimura, Lenae Stansky, Kelli Hill, Sara Fitt

Alexandra Cork
The Johns Hopkins University
Class of 2009

Ellen McClure
The Johns Hopkins University
Class of 2009

Amelia Hritz
The Johns Hopkins
University
Class of 2009