Sue Hespos
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SILC Faculty Member and member of our Spatial Network.
Biographical Sketch:
Susan Hespos
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
(a) Professional Preparation
Reed College |
B.A. |
1990 |
Psychology |
Emory University |
Ph.D. |
1996 |
Psychology |
University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana |
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1996-1998 |
Developmental Psych |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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1998-2001 |
Brain and Cog Science |
(b) Appointments
2009 - Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology Northwestern University
2005 - 2009 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology Northwestern University
2001 - 2005 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
1998 - 2001 Research Associate, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 - 1998 Research Associate, Dept. of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(c) Publications
(i) Publications closely related to the proposed project
Hespos, S.J., Ferry, A., Rips, L. (2009). Five-month-old infants have different expectations for solids and liquids. Psychological Science, 20(5), 603 - 611.
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2008). Young infants’ actions reveal their developing knowledge of support variables: Converging evidence for violation-of-expectation findings. Cognition, 107(1), 304 – 316.
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2006). Decalage in infants’ reasoning about occlusion and containment events: Converging evidence from action tasks. Cognition, 99, B31 – B41.
Hespos, S.J., Gredebeck, G., von Hofsten, C., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). Occlusion is hard: Comparing predictive reaching for visible and hidden objects in infants and adults. Cognitive Science, 33, 1483 -1502.
Ferry, A., Hespos, S.J., & Waxman, S. (2010). Categorization in 3- and 4-month-old Infants: An Advantage of Words Over Tones. Child Development, 81(2), 472 - 479.
(ii) Other significant publications
Hespos, S. J. & Spelke, E. S. (2004). Conceptual precursors to spatial language. Nature, 430, 453 – 456.
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2001b). Reasoning about containment events in very young infants. Cognition, 78, 207 – 245.
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2001a). Infants’ knowledge about occlusion and containment: A surprising discrepancy. Psychological Science, 12(2), 141 – 147.
Hespos, S. J., & Piccin, T. (2009). To generalize or not to generalize: Spatial categories are influenced by physical attributes and language. Developmental Science, 12(1), 88 - 95.
Hespos, S. J., Saylor, M., & Grossman, S. (2009). Infants’ ability to parse continuous actions. Developmental Psychology, 45(2), 575-585.
Hespos, S. J. (2010) What is optical imaging? Journal of Cognition and Development, 11(1), 3 - 15.
(d) Synergistic Activities
- Refinement of optical imaging techniques for use with human infants
- Founder and manager of the infant/child subject pool at Northwestern University (acquisition of participants for 6 Northwestern research labs: Booth, Gentner, Hespos, Maye, Waxman, and Uttal)
- Speeches to lay audiences about cognitive development: parent groups, birth classes, preschools and high schools to disseminate science concerning development.
(e) Collaborators and Other Affiliations
Collaborators
Renee Baillargeon University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Chris Cannestraci Vanderbilt University
John Gore Vanderbilt University
Gustaf Gredeback University of Oslo
Sohee Park Vanderbilt University
Paul Reber Northwestern University
Megan Saylor Vanderbilt University
Elizabeth Spelke Harvard University
Claes von Hofsten Uppsala University
Sandra Waxman Northwestern University
Lance Rips Northwestern University
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Philippe Rochat Graduate Advisor Emory University
Renee Baillargeon Postdoctoral Advisor University of Illinois
Elizabeth Spelke Postdoctoral Advisor Harvard University
Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor
Alissa Ferry current student Northwestern University
Noa Ben-Amotz Thesis Advisor Tennessee Tech
Total number of graduate students advised = 2
Total number of postdoctoral scholars sponsored = 0