Our overall goal is to produce developmental scientists who bring new insight into the understanding of developmental process from a multi-leveled approach. We seek to train ethical scientists who are also good mentors and to increase diversity in the scientific community.
This is our 30th year and we are proud to introduce our predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees for the 2024-2025 year.
Hadar Karmazyn, CV Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Supervisor: Linda Smith
Research Interests: My research focuses on the underlying learning mechanism of infants and machines, who are novices in our noisy cluttered world, and yet trying to make connections and knowledge structures for day-to-day functions.
Emily Yearling, CV Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Supervisor: Linda Smith and Dan Kennedy
Research Interests: Memory development and its role in typical and atypical development.
Nicholas Waters, CV Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Supervisor: Emily Fyfe and Natasha Chaku
Research Interests: Role of early learning experiences in shaping children's academic achievement and associated cognitive processes.
Jasmine Bigelow, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Natasha Chaku, Anne Krendl
Research Interests: I am interested in adolescent biological and cognitive development within a social context. Specifically, I hope to explore various associations between puberty, victimization, motivation, self-identity, social media usage, and how these aspects influence adolescence development.
Sarah Cutts, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Olaf Sporns, Anne Krendl
Research Interests: Functional brain networks fluctuate over multiple timescales ranging from seconds, days, to across the lifespan. I am interested in determining how subject-specific network features change over time and in developing methods to assess their relationship to healthy and clinical phenotypes.
Taylor Drazan, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Natasha Chaku, Brian D'Onofrio, Kelli Ryckman
Research Interests: I am interested in understanding how pubertal timing and changes in hormones affect mood and behavior across adolescence and how the parent-child relationship plays a role in these outcomes. Another interest I have involves the changing relationship between hormones, behavior, and the brain during pregnancy.
Yao Xiao, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisors: Emily Fyfe
Research Interests: I am interested in how people learn and think about Mathematics, an intriguing yet often intimidating subject. I am particularly curious about how people come to grasp mathematics conceptually, especially when the concepts are counterintuitive.
Zachary Petroff, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Kathryn Bonnen, Rowan Candy, David Crandall
Research Interests: My research focuses on computer vision and visual development, exploring how humans learn to perceive the world. By understanding this process, we can inform the design of algorithms that enable machines to learn visual perception.
Zinah George, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Natasha Chaku, Dorainne Green
Research Interests: My research investigates the effects of early life events on adolescents' socioemotional, psychobiological, and cognitive development, focusing particularly on the role of stress in shaping educational trajectories. I am passionate about working with adolescents from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds, including refugees and immigrants, to address their unique challenges and enhance their developmental outcomes.
Rebecca Bove, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisors: Karin James
Research Interests: My research interests include language development along with reading comprehension in children. I also have a side interest in the social-emotional development of young children.
Allison Green, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Daniel Kennedy
Research Interests: My research focuses on better understanding the underlying neural differences in typical vs. atypical development, and whether these neural differences can be used as biomarkers for early identification or individualized interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Emma Cleary, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Brian D'Onofrio,Psychological and Brain Sciences and Patrick Quinn, School of Public Health
Research Interests: Broadly, I am interested in studying eary risk factors. I am particularly interested in how pregnancy complications and substance use during pregnancy may influence outcomes.
Thomas Gorman, CV
Current Position: Graduate Student, Indiana University, Bloomington (R. Goldstone, Psychology)
Research Interests: My research revolves around issues in the transfer of learning. I conduct experiments to investigate different factors that promote learning transfer in humans, and develop computational models to help us better understanding the underlying processes through which transfer occurs.
Joshua McGraw, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Justin Wood, Department of Informatics
Research Interests: I am particularly interested in complex network structures, specifically the emergence of intelligent behavior from neurons - in vivo and in silica. I aim to build embodied agents to this means which can model the fundamental learning properties of humans and animals. I believe that fundamental questions of intelligence and consciousness can be answered with task performing models supported with advancements in AI research. My current research focuses on the development of newborn chicks raised in virtual environments as a model learners in which all environmental variables are systematically controlled.
Megan Merrick, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisor: Emily Fyfe, Pyschological and Brain Sciences and Amanda Diekman,Psychological and Brain Sciences
Research Interests: My research interests lie in the intersection of developmental psychology and education. I am interested in how the use and source of feedback affects educational outcomes such as performance, resilience, and motivation.
Andrew White, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisors: Amanda Diekman, Emily Fyfe
Research Interests:
My research broadly focuses on motivation, stereotyping, and diversity science. I am particularly interested in understanding multiple goal pursuit and how this varies across the lifespan.
Hellen Kyler, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisors: Karin James
Research Interests: I am on the Cognitive track, and am planning to study if action or object structure drives visual gaze patterns with novel, 3-D printed objects. I will use eye tracking technology to investigate gaze patterns.
Gabrielle Shimko, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisors: Karin James
Research Interests: I am interested in the interactive and independent development of attention and motor coordination and the relationship to symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Particularly, I am interested in how these behaviors relate to academic outcomes, such as handwriting fluency. I hope to address my research questions by using multiple methods such as screen-based eye tracking, fMRI, traditional behavioral measures, and naturalistic classroom studies.
Tongyao Zhang, CV Graduate Student
Faculty Supervisors: Emily Fyfe, Karin James, Linda Smith
Research Interests: I'm interested in young children's learning process of math and scientific knowledge. I hope to understand knowledge by looking at how knowledge is built up in children's minds. Specifically, I'm interested in children's patterning skill (e.g., identifying repetitive structures like "A-B-A-B") and its role in math learning.
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| Samantha Faber |
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| Grace Lisandrelli |
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| Kelsey Wiggs |
| Current Position: Graduate Student, Indiana University, Bloomington (B. D'Onofrio, Psychology) |
| Colin Downey |
| Current Position: Graduate Student, Indiana University, Bloomington (R. Candy, Vision Science Optometry) |
| Julia Yurkovic-Harding |
| Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Carolina |
| Lindsey Nelson |
| Current Position: Graduate Student, Indiana University, Bloomington (E. Fyfe, Psychology) |
| Sophia Vinci-Booher |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University |
| Sara Schroer |
| Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas, Austin |
| Mansi Joshi |
| Current Position: Senior Researcher, Veris Insights |
| Andrei Amatuni |
| Current Position: Graduate Student, University of Texas, Austin (C. Yu, Psychology) |
| Elizabeth Clerkin |
| Current Position: Data Science and Policy Specialist, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| Linger Tian Xu |
| Current Position: Research Scientist, Psychology, Indiana University |
| Lisa Byrge |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of North Florida |
| Lauren Slone |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, Hope College, Holland, Michigan |
| Drew Abney |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Connecticut |
| Greg Kohn |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of North Florida |
| Alexis Barton |
| Current Position: Research Manager, Truth Initiative, Washington D. C. |
| Umay Suanda |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Connecticut |
| Lisa Cantrell |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, Sacramento State |
| Viridiana Benitez |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, Arizona State University |
| Daniel Yurovsky |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Chicago |
| Kelly Donahue |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine |
| Joanne Jao Keehn |
| Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Psychology, San Diego State University |
| Quetzal Class |
| Current Position: Research Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology Director, Resident Research Program, University of Illinois, Chicago |
| Claire Coyne |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine |
| Julia Li |
| Current Position: Researcher, Rockman, et al, Research and Evaluation |
| Isaac Petersen |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Iowa |
| Jessica Montag |
| Current Position: Assistant Research Psychologist, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| John Franchak |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside |
| Richard Prather |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland |
| Alexa Romberg |
| Current Position: Assistant Research Scientist, Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, College of Education, University of Maryland |
| Caitlin Fausey |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon |
| Sandra Street |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater |
| Paul Williams |
| Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Meagan Yee |
| Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, Xavier University |
| Angela Staples |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University |
| Alice Schermerhorn |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology, University of Vermont |
| Jennifer Miller |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lewis College of Human Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Thomas Baker |
| Current Position: Scientist, Clinical Research Management, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Hilary Kalagher |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Drew University |
| Elaine Augustine |
| Current Position: Instructor at College of Science and Engineering, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas |
| Leonidas Doumas |
| Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh |
| Thomas Hills |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Warwick, United Kingdom |
| Ji Son |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, California State, LA |
| Nitya Sethuraman |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan |
| Aarre Laakso |
| Current Position: Research Scientist/Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan |
| Hunter Honeycutt |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Bridgewater College, Virginia |
| Jennifer Lanter |
| Current Position: Dean of General Studies, Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton, Wisconsin |
| Joshua Goldberg |
| Current Position: Software Engineer, Space Telescope Science Institute |
| Jae Paik |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University |
| Jill Villarreal |
| Current Position: Research Scientist/Senior Manager at Big Heart Pet Brands |
| Adam Sheya |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Connecticut |
| Cathy Sandhofer |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA |
| Julie Gros-Louis |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa |
| John Green |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Vermont |
| Pat Buchanan |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Physical Therapy Program, Des Moines University |
| William Farrell |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| Jennifer Schwade |
| Current Position: Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Cornell University |
| Melissa Clearfield |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Whitman College |
| Jana Iverson |
| Current Position: Professor of Physical Therapy and Associate Dean for Research |
| Larissa Samuelson |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of East Anglia |
| Richard Andreatta |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences & Division of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Kentucky |
| Donald Finan |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Audiology and Speech Language Sciences, University of Northern Colorado |
| Alan Kersten |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University |
| Emily Wickelgren |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Sacramento State |
| Rosa Angulo-Barroso |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology, California State University Northridge |
| Merry Sleigh |
| Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Winthrop University |
| Teresa Mitchell |
| Current Position: Assistant Professor, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
