PSY 357 Current studies include Infant Word Learning and Infant Memory
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT
Faculty:
Leslie B. Cohen, Ph.D.
Contact:
Jennifer Balkan Balkan@psy.utexas.edu 475-7880
Description:
We study how infants perceive, organize and understand their visual world. We look at topics which include the way infants process faces, construct information, form categories, learn language and understand causality.
Families visit our labs for 20 to 30 minutes during which time their son or daughter (currently ages 7-15 months) looks at examples of objects, faces or events in unique relationships and orientations. Experimenters use measures of looking time and preference to determine what types of information infants process from their environment and how they change over time.
As a junior researcher in our lab, you would play an integral role in our research program and in learning how infants develop in areas such as face and object perception, cognitive rule learning, word learning, and category use. While you work hard and gain invaluable research experience, we think you will also have fun as a member of our lab.
Qualifications:
You must be a hard worker who pays close attention to detail. We require that you devote 10 hours of time to the lab per week during regular business hours (M-F, 9-5) to be scheduled with a graduate student. Because it will take time to learn the many things in our lab, you must be willing to make a two semester commitment of spring and summer, spring and fall or summer and fall. We would prefer that you have already taken Psych 418. Fluency in Spanish is a plus.
Duties:
Contacting participants, scheduling appointments, talking to parents, data entry, reliability checks, and running participants. A short 2-page paper will be required at the end of each semester.
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