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 28th year and we are proud to introduce our predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees for the 2022-2023 year.
Sara Benham, CV Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Supervisors: Linda Smith, Mike Jones and Richard Betzel
Research Interests: My research focuses on the relationship between lexical and phonological bases of word learning in children with typical and atypical language development. I am particularly interested in detecting principles of organization and structure in word and sound learning using network-based approaches.
Amanda Grenell, CV Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Supervisor: Emily Fyfe and John Bates
Research Interests: My research focuses on the relation between individual differences in cognitive skills, such as executive function, and science and math learning in early childhood. I am particularly interested in determining how cognition may influence the effectiveness of specific instructional approaches and materials to optimize learning.
Hadar Karmazyn, CV Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Supervisor: Linda Smith
Research Interests: I am interested in understanding how children's visual processing relates to language development.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Erin Anderson, CV Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Supervisors: Linda Smith and David Crandall
Research Interests: My research investigates infants' early visual experience with inter-object relations. Using head-mounted cameras to capture the infant's point of view in naturalistic settings, we can understand what the distribution of spatial relations is in the environment and what roles age, context, and parents play in shaping these.
Jeremy Borjon, CV
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University, Bloomington (L. Smith, Psychology)
Research Interests: My developing research program is aimed at understanding how the autonomic nervous system shapes and guides behavior during development. Using a combination of wireless physiology sensors, motion capture, and head-mounted eye tracking, we will be able to computationally reconstruct and dissect the naturally occurring behavior of human children and their parents.
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.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University (B. Bertenthal, Psychology)
Research Interests:I am interested in eye tracking and psychophysiological measures, development of emotion regulation, individual differences and social decision-making.
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.
Current Position: Technical Problem Solver, Epic, Madison, Wisconsin
Jennifer Bush
Current Position: Medical Student, Indiana University of Medicine
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, IU School of Medicine
Caitlin Lischer
Current Position: Indianapolis Teaching Fellows, Indianapolis
Current Position: Instruction of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
Samantha Faber
Current Position: Graduate Student, Indiana University, Bloomington (E. Newman, PNS)
Grace Lisandrelli
Current Position: Lab Manager/Project Coordinator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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
Current Position: Graduate Student, Indiana University, Bloomington (D.Kennedy, Psychology)
Lindsey Nelson
Current Position: Graduate Student, Indiana University, Bloomington (E. Fyfe, Psychology)
Sophia Vinci Booher
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin(F. Pestilli, Psychology)
Sara Schroer
Current Position: Graduate Student, University of Texas, Austin (C. Yu, Psychology)
Current Position: Senior Researcher, Veris Insights
Current Position: Graduate Student, University of Texas, Austin (C. Yu, Psychology)
Elizabeth Clerkin
Current Position: Clinical Informatics Project Manager at the NICHD Office of Data Science and Sharing, National Institutes of Health
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
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 ClassCurrent 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 Peterson
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology, 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
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: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
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
Shawn Fagan