Areas of Interest

• Discovering how and when very young children gain knowledge from video, and what aspects of television can be used to enhance their ability to learn.
• Development of the understanding of video as a symbol; how video is not real but relates to real life.

Keyword Interest

• Video/Television
• Infancy/ Early Childhood
• Symbolic Development

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Examining how social interactivity plays a role in how toddlers use video to learn words.

Project:
Examining how infants use emotional information from video differently than from live speakers.

Project:
Examining how infants view physically impossible events presented on video.

Project:
Examining at what ages and under what circumstances infants learn words from commercially available videos like Baby Einstein.

Former Experience

• Research assistant, Georgetown University.

Education

• B.A. (2003): Psychology, Northwestern University