SILC PEOPLE

Members: FACULTY

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  Bruce Ankenman  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences

♦Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Segal Design Institute

♦Director, Master of Engineering Management Program

  Sian Beilock  

  BioSketch

  University of Chicago

♦Department of Psychology

♦Principal Investigator, Human Performance Lab   [brief lab description here]

  Anjan Chatterjee  

  BioSketch

  University of Pennsylvania

♦Department of Neurology

♦Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

♦Director, ChatLab of Cognitive Neurology   [brief lab description here]

  Jason Chein  

  BioSketch

  Temple University

♦Department of Psychology

♦Principal Investigator, Neurocognition Laboratory

♦Faculty, Research in Spatial Cognition (RISC) Lab   [brief lab description here]

  Jennifer Cromley  

  BioSketch

  Temple University

♦College of Education Faculty Homepage

♦College of Education

♦Department of Psychology

♦Faculty, Research in Spatial Cognition (RISC) Lab   [brief lab description here]

  Russell Epstein  

  BioSketch

  University of Pennsylvania

♦Department of Psychology

♦Director, Epstein Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦Faculty, Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)   [brief lab description here]

  Kenneth Forbus  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

♦Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

♦Head of the Cognitive Systems Division

♦Director, Qualitative Reasoning Group   [brief lab description here]

  Steven Franconeri  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦Department of Psychology

♦Principal Investigator, Visual Attention and Cognition Lab   [brief lab description here]

  Dedre Gentner (Co-PI)  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦Department of Psychology

♦Director, Cognitive Science Program

♦School of Education and Social Policy

♦Principal Investigator, Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦Principal Investigator, Project on Children's Thinking   [brief lab description here]

  Susan Goldin-Meadow (Co-PI)  

  BioSketch

  University of Chicago

♦Department of Psychology

♦Principal Investigator/Collaborator, Language Project

♦Goldin-Meadow Laboratory   [brief lab description here]

  Louis Gomez  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦School of Education and Social Policy

♦Learning Sciences Program

♦Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) -- An archive site of CoVis materials.

♦Meaningful Science Consortium

♦Project Member, Adolescent Literacy Support Project

♦Co-Director, Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS)

  Larry Hedges (Co-PI)  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦School of Education and Social Policy

♦Institute for Policy Research

  Sue Hespos  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦Department of Psychology

♦Director, Infant Cognition Lab   [brief lab description here]

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek  

  BioSketch

  Temple University

♦Department of Psychology

♦Co-Director, Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦Faculty, Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)   [brief lab description here]

  Janellen Huttenlocher  

  BioSketch

  University of Chicago

♦Department of Psychology

♦Principal Investigator/Collaborator, Language Project

♦Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Early Childhood Research

  Susan Levine (Co-PI)  

  BioSketch

  University of Chicago

♦Department of Psychology

♦Principal Investigator/Collaborator, Language Project

♦Levine Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦Co-Principal Investigator, Center for Early Childhood Research

  Cathy Manduca  

  BioSketch

  Carleton College

♦Director, the Science Education Resource Center (SERC)

  Nora Newcombe (PI)  

  BioSketch

  Temple University

♦Co-Director, Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦Faculty, Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)   [brief lab description here]

  Howard Nusbaum  

  BioSketch

  University of Chicago

♦Department of Psychology

  David Rapp  

  SESP homepage   Psychology homepage

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦School of Education and Social Policy (SESP)

♦Department of Psychology

♦Reading Comprehension Lab   [brief lab description here]

  Terry Regier  

  BioSketch

  University of Chicago

♦Department of Psychology

  Brad Sageman  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences

  Bruce Sherin  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦School of Education and Social Policy

♦Principal Investigator, The Conceptual Dynamics Project

  Thomas Shipley  

  BioSketch

  Temple University

♦Department of Psychology

♦Director, Vision Lab

♦Faculty, Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)   [brief lab description here]

  Basil Tikoff  

  BioSketch

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

♦Department of Geology and Geophysics

  David H. Uttal  

  BioSketch

  Northwestern University

♦Department of Psychology

♦School of Education and Social Policy

♦Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

Members: GRADUATE STUDENTS

♦ Stella Christie, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Vicki Chung, Northwestern University

♦ Alissa Ferry, Northwestern University

Infant Cognition Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Kelly Fisher, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Shannon L. Fitzhugh, Temple University

Vision Lab

♦ Tilbe Goksun, Temple University

♦ Ariel Grace, Northwestern University

Project on Child Development

♦ Elizabeth Gunderson, University of Chicago

♦ Justin Harris, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Mark Holden, Temple University

Vision Lab

♦ Margaret (Dea) Hunsicker, University of Chicago

♦ Jason Jameson, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Anja Jamrozik, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Leslee Kellogg, University of Chicago

♦ Naveen Khetarpal, University of Chicago

♦ Mee-Kyoung Kwon, University of Chicago

♦ Kate Lockwood, Northwestern University

Qualitative Reasoning Group   [brief lab description here]

♦ Andrew Lovett, Northwestern University

Qualitative Reasoning Group   [brief lab description here]

♦ Ian Lyons, University of Chicago

♦ Loren Marulis, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Andrew Mattarella-Micke, University of Chicago

♦ Camillia Matuk, Northwestern University

Qualitative Reasoning Group   [brief lab description here]

♦ Alexandra Morrison, Temple University

♦ Julia Parish-Morris, Temple University

♦ Gerardo Ramirez, University of Chicago

♦ Ilyse Resnick, Temple University

♦ Sarah Roseberry, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Eyal Sagi, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Megan Sauter, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Nina Simms, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Linsey Smith, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Alexandra Twyman, Temple University

♦ Jon Wetzel, Northwestern University

Qualitative Reasoning Group   [brief lab description here]

♦ Shu-ju Yang, University of Chicago

♦ Panrong ("Penny") Yin, Northwestern University

Qualitative Reasoning Group   [brief lab description here]

Members: POSTDOCS

SILC Postdocs

♦ Frances Balcomb, Temple University

♦ Eileen Cardillo , University of Pennsylvania

♦ Erica Cartmill, University of Chicago

Goldin-Meadow Laboratory   [brief lab description here]

♦ Shannon Pruden Dick, University of Chicago

Goldin-Meadow Laboratory   [brief lab description here]

♦ Kimberly Fenn, University of Chicago

♦ Andrea Frick, Temple University

Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)   [brief lab description here]

♦ Benjamin Jee, Northwestern University

♦ Moshe Krakowski, Northwestern University & University of Chicago

♦ Daniele Nardi, Temple University

Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)   [brief lab description here]

♦ Kristin Ratliff, University of Chicago

Levine Lab

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♦ Meredith Rowe, University of Chicago

♦ Victor Schinazi, University of Pennsylvania

Epstein Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Liesje Spaepen, University of Chicago

Goldin-Meadow Laboratory   [brief lab description here]

♦ Heidi Waterfall, University of Chicago

Guest Postdocs (working on SILC projects, but not funded by SILC)

♦ Alexander Kranjec, University of Pennsylvania

♦ Gwen Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania

♦ Benjamin Straube, University of Pennsylvania

Postdocs in SILC Labs (working on non-SILC projects with SILC researchers)

♦ Sean MacEvoy, University of Pennsylvania

Epstein Lab   [brief lab description here]

Members: RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

♦ Linda Liu Hand, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

Spatial Network Members: ADJUNCT RESEARCHERS

♦ Mary Hegarty, University of California, Santa Barbara

Department of Psychology

Hegarty Spatial Thinking Lab

♦ Ramon E. Lopez, University of Texas at Arlington

Department of Physics

♦ Stella F. Lourenco, Emory University

Department of Psychology

Spatial Cognition Laboratory of the Emory Child Study Center

♦ Sandra Virtue, DePaul University

Department of Psychology

Brain & Language Lab

Members: STAFF

♦ Victoria Carr, Northwestern University

♦ Hannah Degner, University of Chicago

♦ Sonica Dhillon, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Kevin Dietz, University of Chicago

♦ Dominique W. Dumay, Temple University

Vision Lab

♦ Katrina Ferrara, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Elizabeth Hickey, University of Chicago

Levine Lab

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♦ Katie James, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Elise Krause, Northwestern University

Project on Children's Thinking   [brief lab description here]

♦ Adrienne Larmett, Temple University

♦ Nathaniel Meadow, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Eric Russell, Northwestern University

♦ Jessica Saunders, University of Chicago

♦ Christopher J. Schilling, Temple University

Vision Lab

♦ Kristi Schonwald, University of Chicago

Language Project

♦ Benjamin Dionysus, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Jenn Stedillie, Northwestern University

Please, email if you have questions/comments about the SILC website:  

♦ Kim Tran, University of Chicago

♦ Jeffrey Usher, Northwestern University

Please, email if you have any questions/comments about the SILC Wiki:  

♦ Jason Voigt, University of Chicago

♦ Emily Ward, University of Pennsylvania

RA in the Epstein Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Page Widick, University of Pennsylvania

RA in the ChatLab of Cognitive Neurology   [brief lab description here]

Members: UNDERGRADUATES

♦ Margaret Carlin, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Nick Cizek, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Jennifer Conner, Temple University

Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)   [brief lab description here]

♦ Begum Dora, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab

♦ Stacy Grossman, Northwestern University

♦ Hannah Guion, Northwestern University

Project on Children's Thinking   [brief lab description here]

♦ Sarah Hittinger, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Byungmin Lee, Northwestern University

Project on Children's Thinking   [brief lab description here]

♦ Rania McCauley, Temple University

Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)   [brief lab description here]

♦ Maria Namowicz, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Katherine Nescio, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Cara O'Brien, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Teuta Pasholli, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Priya Rajakumar, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Eman Saleh, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Melissa Sifuentes, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab   [brief lab description here]

♦ Samantha Thomas, Northwestern University

Project on Children's Thinking   [brief lab description here]

♦ Jasmine Torres, University of Chicago

♦ Caryn Trasken, Temple University

Vision Lab

♦ Alexa Webster-Clark, University of Chicago

♦ Allison Wolkin, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

ADVISORY BOARD

  Vincent Allocco, El Valor

  Barbara Bowman, Erikson Institute & CPS

  Theodore Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Felton Earls, Harvard Medical School

  Marty Gartzman, University of Illinois at Chicago

  Apostolos Georgopoulos, University of Minnesota

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  Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania

  Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara

  Nancy Kolb, Please Touch Museum

  Stephen Marshak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  David Mosena, Museum of Science & Industry

  Stephen Palmer, University of California, Berkeley

  Mary Potter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Will Wright, Maxis/Electronic Arts

LABS

♦ ChatLab of Cognitive Neurology

Our major emphasis is on the study of attention, perception, and language. The research is conducted by studying patients with selective deficits following brain damage and using functional neuroimaging in normal subjects.

ChatLab of Cognitive Neurology is at: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania.

Lab Director: Anjan Chatterjee

♦ Cognition and Language Lab

Northwestern University researchers in the Cognition and Language Lab are currently conducting research on the effects of analogy and similarity on learning.

Cognition and Language Lab is at: Department of Psychology, Northwestern University.

Lab Director: Dedre Gentner

♦ Epstein Lab

All mobile organisms must represent the space around them if they are to successfully move and act in the world. In our lab, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral testing to uncover the mechanisms that support spatial representation in humans. We are particularly interested in representations that are critical for navigation, such as representations of places (particular locations in the world) and scenes (i.e. the set of visual inputs observed when in a particular place).

Epstein Lab is at: Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania

Lab Director: Russell A. Epstein

♦ Goldin-Meadow Laboratory

It is commonly asked whether language is learned or innate. In my research, I recast the question so that it is amenable to investigation. I ask which aspects of language development are more (or less) sensitive to linguistic and environmental input. Specifically, I have been engaged in a research program to identify the properties of language whose development can withstand wide variations in learning conditions - the "resilient" properties of language.
Another facet of my work explores the spontaneous gestures that hearing adults and children produce as they speak.

Goldin-Meadow Laboratory is at: Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

Lab Director: Susan Goldin-Meadow

♦ Human Performance Lab

Broadly speaking, work in our lab investigates the cognitive and neural substrates governing the learning and performance of complex cognitive skills (e.g., math problem solving) and complex sensorimotor skills (e.g., golf putting). We are interested in understanding the attention and memory processes that support task execution, as well as how high-pressure or high-stakes situations impact performance. Together, our work demonstrates how task type and skill level differences in the attentional demands of performance can be used to understand the nature of successful skill execution and why, at times, it fails to occur.

Human Performance Lab is at: University of Chicago

Lab Director: Sian Beilock

♦ Infant Cognition Lab

How do children develop? At the Northwestern University Infant Cognition Laboratory, we study how children learn to perceive and reason about the world around them. Our studies have shown that babies know much more than people once thought. We study topics like how infants remember objects, how children learn new words, how babies and children understand numbers, and more.

Infant Cognition Lab is at: Department of Psychology, Northwestern University

Lab Director: Sue Hespos

♦ Levine Lab

Dr. Levine's research examines how variations in home and school input affect the cognitive development of children, including language, spatial and mathematical skills. She also examines plasticity of language and cognitive skills following early brain injury.

Levine Lab is at: Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

Lab Director: Susan Levine

♦ Project on Children's Thinking

The Project on Children's Thinking studies the development of children's thought and language. We study how children come to know about the world, with a focus on how their growing insight into linguistic and conceptual structures influences their patterns of learning and reasoning.
One major focus of our research is how children come to learn about spatial relations and how this understanding affects their reasoning. We also study how language can help children think relationally at a younger age than they might otherwise.

Project on Children's Thinking is at: Department of Psychology, Northwestern University

Lab Director: Dedre Gentner

♦ Qualitative Reasoning Group

The Qualitative Reasoning Group conducts research on: Qualitative representations and reasoning, Sketch understanding, Analogical reasoning and learning, Learning by reading, and How our progress in AI and cognitive science can be used to create new kinds of systems for education, performance support, and interactive entertainment.
Our research includes both efforts to create new kinds of cognitive systems, and to model human cognition.

Qualitative Reasoning Group is at: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University

Lab Director: Kenneth Forbus

♦ Reading Comprehension Laboratory

Members of the Reading Comprehension Laboratory at Northwestern University examine the ways in which prior knowledge, unfolding discourse, and learner strategies interactively influence reading experiences. This has involved examination of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie learning from text, as well as the products that remain in memory after reading is completed. Recent extensions of this work have targeted (a) the remediation of struggling readers’ difficulties, (b) the development of computational simulations of reading activity, and (c) the application of discourse models towards understanding broader sets of experiences, including map comprehension and procedural learning with multimedia presentations.

♦ Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC)

Spatial thinking is both a key intellectual issue in cognitive science and a critically important aspect of problem solving in science, engineering and mathematics. Spatial intelligence allows us to encode and transform information about objects and their location, and thus to find our way in the world and perform technical activities such as tool making. Beyond its direct applications in navigation and spatial manipulation, it also provides the foundation for a wide range of reasoning and communication skills, as varied as the design of buildings, the solution of mathematics problems, and the use of spatial metaphor in everyday language. The overarching goal of the RISC Lab is to understand spatial learning and cognition and how they can be fostered by effective technology and education.

Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC) is at: Department of Psychology, Temple University

SILC Faculty associated with RISC: Jason Chein, Jennifer Cromley, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Nora S. Newcombe, Thomas F. Shipley & Russell Epstein.

Lab Administrator: Adrienne Larmett

♦ Temple Infant Lab

Join us in discovering how children from 5 months to 6 years learn about the world they live in. Our labs conduct cutting-edge research on spatial develoment, memory, language development, reading and the role of play in learning.

Temple Infant Lab is at: Department of Psychology, Temple University

Lab Directors: Nora Newcombe and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

♦ (David H.) Uttal Lab

The overarching goal of our research is to investigate how people perceive and understand the world around them. Perception and conceptualization undergo a number of changes as children grow and develop. By approaching our investigation from a developmental perspective, we hope to acquire a richer understanding of these processes and of cognition in general. Further, in studying cognitive development we recognize that our work has important implications for education. Thus, we also strive to understand what makes certain educational programs and tools effective in the light of cognitive theories and processes.

David H. Uttal Lab is at: The Department of Psychology, The Cognitive Psychology Program, Northwestern University

Lab Director: David H. Uttal

♦ Vision Lab

Dr. Shipley's research interests include object, motion, and event perception, as well as spatial cognition, interactions between perception and spatial knowledge, and perceptual learning. Current research projects include: Biological Motion, Illusory Contours and Apparent Motion.

The Vision Lab is at: The Department of Psychology, Temple University

Lab Director: Thomas Shipley

♦ Visual Attention and Cognition Lab

Our research focuses on the tools that we use to select visual information, and how these tools are applied. How much of selection is automatic, and how much is under our control? Can we select more than one thing at a time? How do we maintain selection of an object when it moves?
We also study processes that support and interact with visual selection. These processes include visual memory, which helps us store what we have selected in the past, object tracking, which helps us maintain selection of moving objects, and number perception, which relies on selection mechanisms to construct the units underlying the counting process.

Visual Attention and Cognition Lab is at: The Department of Psychology, Northwestern University

Lab Director: Steven Franconeri

ALUMNI

♦ Ty Boyer, Indiana Univeristy

Post-doctoral Research Associate

♦ Sarah Burgess, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab

♦ Joanna Cannon, New York City Department of Education, Office of Accountability

Research Director

♦ Samuel Day, Indiana University

Daniel C. Edelson, Vice President for Education at the National Geographic Society

♦ Stacy Ehrlich, Educational Development Center, Boston, MA  

Research Associate

♦ Stella Lourenco, University of Chicago

♦ Hannah Melnicoe, University of Chicago

♦ Jessica Saunders, University of Chicago

♦ Wendy Shallcross, Lovaas Institute

Applied Behavior Analysis Therapist

As a former SILC staff member, Wendy was the Coordinator of the Infant Lab at Temple University from 2006-2008.

♦ Linda Suriyakham

♦ Seyda Ozcaliskan, Georgia State University

Assistant Professor

♦ Xiaoang Irene Wan, Temple University

EXTERNAL EVALUATOR