SILC PEOPLE

Members: Faculty

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Bruce Ankenman, Northwestern University

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Sian Beilock, University of Chicago

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Human Performance Lab   [brief lab description here]

Anjan Chatterjee, University of Pennsylvania

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ChatLab of Cognitive Neurology   [brief lab description here]

Jason Chein, Temple University

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Russell Epstein, University of Pennsylvania

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Epstein Lab   [brief lab description here]

Kenneth Forbus, Northwestern University

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Qualitative Reasoning Group   [brief lab description here]

Dedre Gentner (Co-PI), Northwestern University

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Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

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

Susan Goldin-Meadow (Co-PI), University of Chicago

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Goldin-Meadow Laboratory   [brief lab description here]

Louis Gomez, Northwestern University

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Larry Hedges (Co-PI), Northwestern University

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Sue Hespos, Northwestern University

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Infant Cognition Lab   [brief lab description here]

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University

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Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

Janellen Huttenlocher, University of Chicago

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Susan Levine (Co-PI), University of Chicago

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Levine Lab   [brief lab description here]

Cathy Manduca, Carleton College

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Nora Newcombe (PI), Temple University

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Temple Infant Lab   [brief lab description here]

Howard Nusbaum, University of Chicago

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Terry Regier, University of Chicago

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Brad Sageman, Northwestern University

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Bruce SherinNorthwestern University

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Thomas Shipley, Temple University

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Vision Lab

Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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David H. Uttal, Northwestern University

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Uttal Lab

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

Mark Holden, Temple University

Vision Lab

Margaret (Dea) Hunsicker, University of Chicago

Jason Jameson, 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

Andrew Lovett, Northwestern University

Qualitative Reasoning Group

Ian Lyons, University of Chicago

Loren Marulis, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab

Andrew Mattarella-Micke, University of Chicago

Camillia Matuk, Northwestern University

Qualitative Reasoning Group

Julia Parish-Morris, Temple University

Gerardo Ramirez, University of Chicago

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

Nina Simms, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

Alexandra Twyman, Temple University

Jon Wetzel, Northwestern University

Qualitative Reasoning Group

Shu-ju Yang, University of Chicago

Members: Postdocs

SILC Postdocs

Frances Balcomb, Temple University

Eileen Cardillo , University of Pennsylvania

Kimberly Fenn, University of Chicago

Benjamin Jee, Northwestern University

Moshe Krakowski, Northwestern University & University of Chicago

Alexander Kranjec, University of Pennsylvania

Seyda Ozcaliskan, University of Chicago & Northwestern University

Shannon Pruden, University of Chicago

Goldin-Meadow Laboratory   [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]

Gwen Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania

Xiaoang Irene Wan, Temple University

Heidi Waterfall, University of Chicago

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

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

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

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

Eric Russell, Northwestern University

Jessica Saunders, University of Chicago

Christopher J. Schilling, Temple University

Vision Lab

Kristi Schonwald, University of Chicago

Benjamin Scott-Hopkins, Northwestern University

Cognition and Language Lab   [brief lab description here]

Wendy Shallcross, Temple University

Temple Infant Lab Coordinator   [brief lab description here]

Jenn Stedillie, Northwestern University

SILC website

Kim Tran, University of Chicago

Jeffrey Usher, Northwestern University

SILC Wiki

Jason Voigt, University of Chicago

Members: Undergraduates

Margaret Carlin, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab

Nick Cizek, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab

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]

Byungmin Lee, Northwestern University

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

Hannah Melnicoe, University of Chicago

Cara O'Brien, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab

Priya Rajakumar, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab

Melissa Sifuentes, Northwestern University

Uttal Lab

Samantha Thomas, Northwestern University

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

Jasmine Torres, University of Chicago

Caryn Trasken, Temple University

Alexa Webster-Clark, University of Chicago

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

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

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

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

Speech Lab

Uttal Lab

Vision Lab

Alums

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

Stacy Ehrlich, Educational Development Center, Boston, MA

Research Associate

Stella Lourenco, University of Chicago

Linda Suriyakham