PEOPLE
Directors
Michael Goldstein received his Ph.D in Developmental Psychology and Animal Behavior from Indiana University in 2001. He was an assistant professor at Franklin and Marshall College from 2001 - 2004. Michael is now an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University. Michael won the David Kucharski Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology in 2007. He also won the Distinguished Early Career Contribution Award from the International Society on Infant Studies in 2008.
Jennifer Schwade received her Ph.D in Child Psychology from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota in 1999. She then did post-doctoral training in Linda Smith’s cognitive development laboratory at Indiana University. She was an visiting professor and research associate at Franklin and Marshall College from 2001 - 2004. Jennifer is now a Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at Cornell University.
Post-docs
Heidi Waterfall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of Chicago in 2006. There, she collaborated with Janellen Huttenlocher and Marina Vasilyeva on numerous longitudinal studies of parent-infant dyads. Her dissertation examined the role of variation sets in language acquisition–clusters of partial repetitions in speech addressed to very young children (e.g. Want to get your ball? Get your ball? Do you want to get your ball?). Her results indicate that variation sets are strongly related to the nouns, verbs and verb-frames that children produce at the same observation and are strongly related to children’s verbs and verb-frames four months later. She is currently conducting post-doctoral research with Michael Goldstein, Jennifer Schwade and Shimon Edelman at Cornell University. Her projects at Cornell continue to explore variation sets, using artificial language experiments with adults, noun- and verb-learning studies with children and computer modeling.
Graduate Students
Kat Agres (co-advisors: David Field, Michael Goldstein, Michael Spivey)
Sarah Anderson (primary advisor: Michael Spivey)
Lauren Emberson (co-advisors: Dima Amso, Michael Goldstein, Michael Spivey)
Otilia Menyhart (co-advisors: Michael Goldstein and Tim DeVoogd)
Jennifer Misyak (primary advisor: Morten Christiansen)
Rachel Ryan (primary advisor: Michael Goldstein)
Supriya Syal (primary advisor: Michael Goldstein)
Honors Thesis Students
Fiona Kirkpatrick
Jeanna Pagnotta
Undergraduate Research Assistants - the baby team
Tracy Anastas
Lauren Bigalow
Sarah Edmunds
Rachel Elkin
Nicole Kardassakis
Jane Klinger
Sabrina Papazian
Linka Preus
Undergraduate Research Assistants - the bird team
Julia Cao
Aaron Donato
Rachel Healy
Sora Lee
Jamie Mash
Janet Olsen
Michael Shen
Melanie Wegener
John Xu
Lab Alumni
Sara Abelson 06, Magna cum laude
Rachel Brandstadter 08
Fern Baldwin 07
Casey Berson 07
Jacque Briesch 07, Summa cum laude
Mi Hae Chung 07
Rachel Clabby 09
Amanda Curry 09
Carmel Dibner 06, Magna cum laude
Melissa Frankel 09
Mary Gilliam 09
Betsy Halliburton 05
MuYoung Kim 06
Emily Laucks 09
Erica Moran 05
Angela Narayan 07, Magna cum laude
Jesse Northrup 08
Setareh Omran, Hughes Foundation exchange student
April Ryles 09
Maryam Sajed 09
Jeremy Smith 05
Andras Szeles 06, cum laude
Theresa Tan 09, Magna cum laude
Laura Vollmer 07, cum laude
Ashley Zydel 09