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COHEN, LESLIE B.

Email address: cohen@psy.utexas.edu Web site: http://Homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Group/CohenLab/ Educational History: 1961 - B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (Psychology) 1966 - Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (Major area - Child Development) Minor areas - (Learning, Motivation, History and Systems) Thesis Title:

Observing responses, visual preferences and habituation to visual stimuli in infants. W. E. Jeffrey (Supervisor)

Professional History:

September 1962 - June 1965 - Pre-doctoral Fellow, NIH Training Grant, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.

June 1963 - August 1963 - Research Assistant, Child Welfare Research Station, University of Iowa. June 1964 - July 1964 - Member, Institute on Cognitive Development, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. March 1966 - December 1966 --- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research in Human Learning and Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. 1967 - 1971 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois. 1971 - 1976 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois. 1972 - 1976 - Associate Professor, Children's Research Center, University of Illinois. 1974 --- Visiting Research Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles. 1976 - 1980 --- Professor, Institute for Child Behavior and Development and Department of Psychology, University of Illinois. 1980 - Present ---Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin 1980 – Present ---Director, Infant Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin 1982 - 1983 - Chair, Developmental Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

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1982 -2004 - Director, Children's Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin 1985 - Summer --- Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, People's Republic of China 1991-Fall -Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia 1998-Fall-Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California at San Diego 1998-2003 - Founding Editor, Infancy, Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies

2001 – Present - Affiliated Faculty Member, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin. 2001 – Present - Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin. 2006-2008 - President, International Society on Infant Studies

Honors and Affiliations:

Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 1 Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 3 Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 7 Fellow, American Psychological Society Memberships: AAAS, Cognitive Development Society, Cognitive Science Society, International Society on Infant Studies, Psychonomic Society, Society for Research in Child Development Nominee, APA, Division 7, President - 1990 APA Division 7, Secretary/Treasurer - 1995-1998

Nominee, International Society on Infant Studies President - 2002 Founding Editor, Infancy, 1998 - 2003 President, International Society on Infant Studies, - 20046

PUBLICAT IONS

Jeffrey, W. E., & Cohen, L. B. (1964). Effect of spatial separation of stimulus, response, and reinforcement on selective learning in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1, 577-580.

Jeffrey, W. E., & Cohen, L. B. (1965). Response tendencies of children in a two-choice

situation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2, 248-254. Bush, E. S., & Cohen, L. B. (1969). The effects of relevant and irrelevant labels in short-term

memory in nursery school children. Psychonomic Science, 18, 228-229. Cohen, L. B. (1969). Observing responses, visual preferences, and habituation to visual stimuli

in infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 7, 419-433.

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Miller, D. J., Cohen, L. B., & Hill, K. T. (1970). A methodological investigation of Piaget's

theory of object concept development in the sensory-motor period. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 9, 59-85.

Miller, D. J., Ternure, C., & Cohen, L. B. (1970). Habituation of visual fixations in human

infants in a retroactive inhibition paradigm [Summary]. Proceedings of the 78th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 5, 277-278.

Pancratz, C. N., & Cohen, L. B. (1970). Recovery of habituation in infants. Journal of

Experimental Child Psychology, 9, 208-215. Cohen, L. B., Gelber, E. R., & Lazar, M. A. (1971). Infant habituation and generalization to

differing degrees of stimulus novelty. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 11, 379-389.

Jeffrey, W. E., & Cohen, L. B. (1971). Habituation in the human infant. In H.Reese (Ed.),

Advances in child development and behavior, Vol.6 (pp. 63-97). New York: Academic Press.

Weizmann, F., Cohen, L. B., & Pratt, R. (1971). Novelty, familiarity, and the development of

infant attention. Development Psychology, 4, 149-154. Cohen, L. B. (1972). Attention-getting and attention-holding processes of infant visual

preferences. Child Development, 43, 869-879. Cohen, L. B. (1973). A two process model of infant visual attention. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly,

19, 157-180. Wetherford, M., & Cohen, L. B. (1973). Developmental changes in infant visual preferences for

novelty and familiarity. Child Development, 44, 416-424. Cohen, L. B. (1975). Infant visual memory: A backward look into the future. In N. Ellis (Ed.),

Aberrant development in infancy (pp. 203-216). Potomac, Md: Lawrence Associates. Cohen, L. B., DeLoache, J. S., & Rissman, M. W. (1975). The effect of stimulus complexity on

infant visual attention and habituation. Child Development, 45, 611-617. Cohen, L. B., & Gelber, E. R. (1975). Infant visual memory. In L. Cohen & S. Salapatek

(Eds.), Infant perception: From sensation to cognition, Vol.1. Basic Visual Processes (pp. 347-403). New York: Academic Press.

Cohen, L. B., & Salapatek, P. (Eds.) (1975). Infant perception: From sensation to cognition,

Vol.1. Basic Visual Processes New York: Academic Press. Cohen, L. B., & Salapatek, P. (Eds.). (1975). Infant perception: From sensation to cognition,

Vol. 2. Perception of Space, Speech and Sound. New York: Academic Press. Kramer, J. A., Hill, K. T., & Cohen, L. B. (1975). Infants' development of object permanence:

A refined methodology and new evidence for Piaget's hypothesized ordinality. Child Development, 46, 149-155.

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Cohen, L. B. (1976). Habituation of infant visual attention. In T. Tighe & R. N. Leaton (Eds.),

Habituation: Perspectives from child development, animal behavior and neurophysiology (pp. 207-238). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Cohen L. B., DeLoache, J. S., & Pearl, R. (1977). An examination of interference effects in

infants memory for faces. Child Development, 48, 88-96. Cohen, L. B. (1977). Habituation of attention in infants. In B. B. Wolman & L. R. Pomeroy

(Eds.), International encyclopedia of neurology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and psychology. New York.

Cohen, L. B., & Strauss, M. S. (1977). Concept acquisition in the human infant. Child

Development, 50, 419-424. DeLoache, J. S., Rissman, M. W., & Cohen, L. B. (1978). An investigation of the attention-

getting process in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 1, 11-15. Cohen, L. B., DeLoache, J. S., & Strauss, M. S. (1979). Infant visual perception. In J. D.

Osofsky (Ed.), Handbook of infant development (pp. 393-438). John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.

Cohen, L. B. (1979). The development of infant perception and cognition. American

Psychologist, 34, 894-899. Cohen, L.B. (1979). Comments on Schwartz and Day monograph. Monographs of the Society

for Research in Child Development, 44, (Serial No.7). Cohen, L. B. (1981). Examination of habituation as a measure of aberrant infant development.

In S. Friedman & S. Sigman (Eds.), Pre-term birth and psychological development (pp. 241-258). Academic Press.

Cohen, L. B., & Menten, T. G. (1981). The rise and fall of infant habituation. Infant behavior

and development, 4, 269-280. Cohen, L. B. (1982). New issues are not always that new: A reply to Kemler. Merrill-Palmer

Quarterly, 27, 465-470. Husaim, J. S., & Cohen, L. B. (1982). Infant learning of ill-defined categories. Merrill-Palmer

Quarterly, 27, 443-456. McDonough, S. C., & Cohen, L. B. (1982). Attention and memory in cerebral palsied infants.

Infant Behavior and Development, 5, 347-354. Cohen, L. B., & Younger, B. A. (1983). Perceptual categorization in the infant. In E. Scholnick

(Ed.), New trends in conceptual representation (pp. 197-220). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Younger, B.A., & Cohen, L.B. (1983). Infant perception of correlations among attributes. Child

Development, 54, 858-867.

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Cohen, L. B. & Younger, B. A. (1984). Infant perception of angular relations. Infant Behavior and Development, 7, 37-47.

- Younger, B. A. & Cohen, L. B. (1985). How infants form categories. In G. Bower (Ed.), The

psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory, Vol. 19 (pp. 211-247). New York: Academic Press.

Younger, B. A. & Cohen, L. B. (1986). Developmental change in infants' perception of

correlations among attributes. Child Development, 57, 803-815. Salapatek, P. & Cohen, L.B. (Eds.). (1987). Handbook of Infant Perception: From Sensation

to Perception, Vol.1. New York: Academic Press. Salapatek, P., & Cohen, L.B. (Eds.). (1987). Handbook of Infant Perception: From Perception

to Cognition, Vol.2. New York: Academic Press. Cohen, L. B. (1988). Information processing constraints on infant memory and categorization.

In P. Vietze & H. Vaughn (Eds.), Early identification of handicapped infants (pp. 237-252). Orlando: Gruen & Stratton.

Cohen, L. B. (1988). An information processing approach to infant cognitive development. In

L. Weiscrantz (Ed.), Thought without language (pp. 211-228). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cohen, L. B. (1988). The relationship between infant habituation and infant information

processing. European Bulletin of Cognitive Psychology, 8, 445-454. Cohen, L. B. (1989). What develops in infant cognitive development? In D. Topping, D.

Crowell, & V. Kobayashi (Eds.), Thinking across cultures (pp. 357-368). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Blicher, D. L., Diehl, R. L., & Cohen, L.B. (1990). Effects of syllable duration on the perception

of the Mandarin Tone 2/Tone 3 distinction: Evidence of auditory enhancement. Journal of Phonetics, 18, 37-49.

Oakes, L. M. & Cohen, L. B. (1990). Infant perception of a causal event. Cognitive

Development, 5, 193-207. Cohen, L. B. (1991). Infant attention: An information processing approach. In M. J. Weiss &

P. R. Zalazo (Eds.), Newborn attention: Biological constraints and the influence of experience. (pp. 1-21).Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

Oakes, L.M., Madole, K.L., & Cohen, L.B. (1991). Infant object examining: Habituation and

categorization. Cognitive Development, 6, 377-392. Cohen, L.B., Diehl, R.L., Oakes, L.M. & Loehlin, J.C. (1992). Infant perception of /aba/ versus

/apa/: Building a quantitative model of infant categorical discrimination. Developmental Psychology, 28, 261-272.

Cohen, L.B. & Oakes, L.M. (1993). How infants perceive a simple causal event. Developmental

Psychology, 29, 421-433.

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Madole, K.L., Oakes, L.M., & Cohen, L.B. (1993). Developmental changes in infants' attention to function and form-function correlations. Cognitive Development, 8, 189-209.

Oakes, L.M. & Cohen, L.B. (1994). Infant Causal Perception. In C. Rovee-Collier & L.P. Lipsitt

(Eds.), Advances in Infancy Research, Vol 9, (pp. 1-54) Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp.)

Madole, K.L. & Cohen, L.B. (1995). Developmental changes in infants’ attention to the form

and function of object parts. Developmental Psychology, 31,637-648. Cohen, L.B. (1998). An information-processing approach to infant perception and cognition. In

F. Simion & G. Butterworth (Eds.), The Development of Sensory, Motor, and Cognitive Capacities in Early Infancy (pp.277-300). East Sussex: Psychology Press.

Cohen, L.B. & Amsel, G. (1998). Precursors to infants’ perception of causality. Infant Behavior

and Development, 21, 713-731. Cohen, L. B., Amsel, G., Redford, M. A., & Casasola, M. (1998). The development of infant

causal perception. In A. Slater (ed.), Perceptual development: Visual, Auditory, and Speech Perception in Infancy. (pp. 167-209). East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press Ltd.

Werker, J.F., Cohen, L.B., Lloyd, V.L., Casasola, M., & Stager, C.L. (1998). Acquisition of

word-object associations by 14-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1289-1309.

Cohen, L.B., Rundell, L. J., Spellman, B. A., & Cashon, C. H. (1999). Infants’ perception of

causal chains. Psychological Science. 10, 412-418. Rakison, D. H. & Cohen, L.B. (1999). Infants' use of functional parts in basic-like

categorization. Developmental Science. 2, 423-431. Bogartz, R. S., Cashon, C. H., Cohen, L. B., Schilling, T. H., & Shinskey, J. L. (2000). Reply to

Baillargeon (2000), Aslin (2000), and Munakata (2000). Infancy, 1, 479-490. Casasola, M. & Cohen, L.B. (2000). Infants' association of linguistic labels with causal actions.

Developmental Psychology. 36, 155-168. - Cashon, C.H. & Cohen, L.B. (2000). Eight-month-old infants’ perception of possible and impossible

events. Infancy. 1, 429-446. Cohen, L. B.; Atkinson, D. J.; & Chaput, H. H. (2000). Habit 2000: A new program for testing

infant perception and cognition. (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Austin, the University of Texas.

Chaput, H. H. & Cohen, L. B. (2001). A model of infant causal perception and its development. J.

D. Moore and K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp 182-187). Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Cohen, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2001). Infant object segregation implies information integration.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 78, 75-83.

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Cohen, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2001). Do 7-month-old infants process independent features or facial

configurations? Infant and Child Development. 10, 83-92. Casasola, M. & Cohen, L.B. (2002). Infant categorization of containment, support and tight-fit

spatial relationships. Developmental Science, 5, 247-264. Cohen, L. B. (2002). Extraordinary claims require extraordinary controls. Developmental

Science, 5, 211-212. Cohen, L. B. & Chaput, H. H. (2002). Connectionist models of infant perceptual and cognitive

development. Developmental Science, 5, 173-174. Cohen, L. B., Chaput, H. H., & Cashon, C. H. (2002). A constructivist model of infant cognitive

development. Cognitive Development. 17, 1323-1343. - Cohen, L. B. & Marks, K. S. (2002). How infants process addition and subtraction events.

Developmental Science, 5, 186-201. Casasola, M., Cohen, L. B. & Chiarello, E. (2003). Six-month-old infants’ categorization of

containment spatial relations. Child Development, 74, 679-693. Cashon, C. H. & Cohen, L.B. (2003). The construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of

infant face perception. In Slater, A. & Pascalis, O. The development of face processing in infancy and early childhood. (pp. 55-68), New York: Nova Science.

Cohen, L. B. (2003) Unresolved issues in infant categorization. In D. Rakison & L. M. Oakes (Eds.), Early category and concept development. (pp, 193-209), New York: Oxford University Press.

Cohen, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2003). Infant perception and cognition. In R. Lerner, A. Easterbrooks,

and J. Mistry (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychology. Volume 6, Developmental Psychology. II. Infancy. (pp. 65-89), New York: Wiley and Sons.

Johnson, S. P., Cohen, L. B., Marks, K. H. & Johnson, K. L. (2003). Young infants' perception

of object unity in rotation displays. Infancy, 4, 285-296. Cashon, C. H. & Cohen, L. B. (2004). Beyond U-Shaped Development in Infants’ Processing of

Faces: An Information-Processing Account. Cognition and Development. 5, 59-80. Cohen, L. B. (2004). Uses and misuses of habituation and related preference programs. Infant and Child Development. 13, 349-352. Cohen, L. B. (2004). Modeling the development of infant categorization. Infancy, 5, 127-130. Cohen, L.B., Atkinson, D. J., & Chaput, H. H. (2004). A new program for obtaining and

organizing data in infant perception and cognition studies, (Version 1.0). Austin: University of Texas.

Shultz, T. R. & Cohen, L. B. (2004). Modeling age differences in infant category learning.

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Infancy, 5, 153-172. Cohen, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2006). Infant Cognition. In D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Eds.),

Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 2. Cognition, perception, and language (6th ed.). (pp . 214-251) New York: Wiley. Plunkett, K., Hu, J-F, & Cohen, L.B. (2008). Labels can override perceptual categories in early

infancy. Cognition, 106, 665-681. Cohen, L. B. & Brunt, R. J. (2009). Early Word Learning and Categorization: Methodological

Issues and Recent Empirical Evidence. In J. Colombo, P. McCardle & L. Freund (Eds.) Infant Pathways to Language: Methods, Models, and Research Directions. (pp. 245-266) Mawwaw, L.E. Erlbaum.

Cohen, L. B. (2009, in press). A bottom up approach to infant perception and cognition: A

summary of evidence and discussion of issues. In Johnson, S. P. (Ed). Neoconstructivism: The new science of cognitive development. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cohen, L. B. (2009, in press). The evolution of infant cognition: A personal account. Infancy. Taylor, H. B., Landry, S.H., Cohen, L. B., Barnes, M., Fletcher, J.& Swank, P. (in press). Early

Information Processing among Infants with Spina Bifida. Infant Behavior and Development.

Brunt, R. J., & Cohen, L.B. (submitted). Tracking linguistic and attentional influences on

preferential looking in infancy. PAPERS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS Invited Colloquium, University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, 1968. Invited Colloquium, University of California, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Los

Angeles, 1970. Invited Colloquium, University of California, Medical School, San Francisco, 1970. Invited Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Department of Psychology, 1971. Invited Colloquium, University of Massachusetts, Department of Psychology, 1971. Invited Colloquium, University of California, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Los

Angeles, 1972. Cohen, L.B. A two-process model of infant visual attention. Paper presented at Conference on

Infant Development, Merrill Palmer Institute, Detroit, 1972. Invited Colloquium, University of California, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Los Angeles, 1974.

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Cohen, L.B. Infant visual memory: A backward look into the future. Paper presented at

Gatlinburg Conference on Aberrant Development in Infancy, Gatlinburg, 1974. Cohen, L.B. Habituation of infant visual attention. Paper presented at SRCD Study Group on

Habituation, Dartmouth, 1974. Invited Colloquium, University of Michigan, Distinguished Scientist Series in Developmental

Psychology, 1974. Invited Colloquium, University of California, Extension-Conference on Early Intervention, 1974. Invited Colloquium, Michigan State University, Department of Psychology, 1976. Invited Colloquium, University of Miami, Medical School and Mailman Institute, 1975. Invited Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1976. Invited Colloquium, University of Delaware, Department of Educational Psychology, 1976. Invited Colloquium, Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology, New Hampshire, 1977. Invited Colloquium, Purdue University, Department of Psychology, March 1978. Cohen, L.B. The development of concepts in infants. Paper presented at the International

Conference on Infant Studies, Providence, March 1978. Invited Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March 1978. Cohen, L.B., & Caputo, N.F. Instructing infants to respond to perceptual categories. Paper

presented at Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, May 1978. Invited Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Development, September 1978. Cohen, L.B. Examination of habituation as a measure of aberrant infant development. Paper

presented at the Pre-term and Post-term Births: Relevance to Optimal Psychological Development Conference, Bethesda, Md., October, 1978.

Cohen, L.B. Theoretical issues in infant concept development. Paper presented at the Midwest

Cognitive Conference, University of Illinois, Department of Psychology, November 1978. Invited Colloquium, Illinois Institute for Developmental Disabilities, Chicago, December 1978. Cohen, L.B., & Menten, T.G. The rise and fall of infant habituation. Paper presented at the

Society for Research in Child Development, San Francisco, March 1979. Invited Colloquium, California State University, Department of Psychology, Fullerton, March

1979. Invited Colloquium, University of California, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles, March

1979.

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Invited Colloquium, Wayne State University, Department of Psychology, Detroit, April 1979. Cohen, L.B. Cognitive development in high-risk infants. Paper presented at the Loyola

Conference on High-Risk Infants, Chicago, April 1979. Cohen, L.B. Theoretical issues in infant concept acquisition. Paper presented at the Midwestern

Psychological Association Meeting, Chicago, May 1979. Invited Colloquium, University of Parma, Department of Pediatrics, Italy, June 1979. Cohen, L.B. The use of habituation to study infant visual perception. paper presented at the

Second Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Ophthalmology, Vibo Valentia, Italy, June 1979.

Invited Colloquium, University of Padova, Department of Psychology, Italy, 1979. Menten, J.M., & Cohen, L.B. Infant perception of auditory-visual synchrony. Paper presented

at American Psychological Association Meeting, New York, September 1979. Invited Colloquium, University of Houston, Department of Psychology, October 1980. Invited Colloquium, Queens University, Department of Psychology, Kingston, Ontario,

November 1980. Cohen, L.B. Infant perception of identity and literal similarity. Paper presented at Society for

Research in Child Development Meeting, Boston, April 1981. Cohen, L.B. An information processing approach to infant perceptual and cognitive

development. Invited address, Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting, Detroit, May 1981.

Cohen, L.B. Perceptual categorization in the infant. Invited paper at Eleventh Annual Piaget

Society Symposium, May 1981. Invited Colloquium, Indiana University, Department of Psychology, October, 1981. Invited Colloquium, McMaster University, Department of Psychology, December, 1981. McDonough, S.C. & Cohen, L.B. Use of habituation to investigate concept acquisition in

cerebral palsied infants. Paper presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Austin, March, 1982.

Younger, B.A. & Cohen, L.B. Infant perception of angular relations. Paper presented at

International Conference on Infant Studies, Austin, March, 1982. Younger, B.A. & Cohen, L.B. Infant perception of correlated attributes. Paper presented at

International Conference on Infant Studies, Austin, March, 1982. Invited Colloquium, Carnegie-Mellon University, Department of Psychology, April, 1982.

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Invited Colloquium, University of Washington, Child Development and Mental Retardation Center, May, 1982.

Younger, B.A. & Cohen, L.B. Infants' acquisition of correlated vs.uncorrelated categories.

Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Detroit, April, 1983.

Younger, B.A. & Cohen, L.B. Developmental change in infants' perception of correlated

attributes. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Detroit, April, 1983.

Invited Colloquium, University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychology, April,

1983. Invited Panelist, Cognitive Science Society Fifth National Meeting, Rochester, May, 1983. Invited Colloquium, Cognitive Science Center, University of Texas at Austin, May 1983. Invited Colloquium, Illinois Institute for Developmental Disabilities, June, 1983. Cohen, L.B. & Bennett, P.J. (1984, April). Infant Perception of Proximity Relations. Paper

presented at International Conference on Infant Studies Meeting, New York. Washburn, K.J. & Cohen, L.B. (1984, April). Infant Perception of Rhythmic Form. Paper

presented at International Conference on Infant Studies Meeting, New York. Cohen, L.B. (1984, April). Local Research on Infant Development. Invited talk at Seton

Medical Center Conference on "Infant Stimulation: Enhancing Growth and Development?" Austin.

Cohen, L.B. (1984, April). Processes Underlying Infant Categorization. Invited Participant,

Conference on Cognitive Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Invited Colloquium, (1984, May). Stephen F.Austin State University, Department of

Psychology, Nacogdoches, Texas. Cohen, L.B. (1984, June). Information Procesing Constraints on Individual Differences in Infant

Memory. Invited paper presented at NIH Conference on Identification of Infants at Risk. Bethesda, MD.

Cohen, L.B. & Younger, B.A. (1985, April). Developmental change in infant categorization.

Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development. Toronto. Cohen, L.B. (1985, April). Discussion of the late ERP in infant perceptual/cognitive

development. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development. Toronto. Cohen, L.B. (1995, July). Invited lecture on predicting IQ from infant novelty scores.

Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Cohen, L.B. Infant Perception and Cognition: The State of the Field. Invited presentation to

National Conference on Charting Change in Infants, Families, and Services. Austin, 1986.

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Cohen, L.B. Infant Perception of compounds versus components. Paper presented at

Conference on Human Development. Nashville, 1986. Cohen, L.B. Discussant, Symposium on early abilities, International Conference on Infant

Studies, Los Angeles, 1986. Oakes, L.M., Cohen, L.B., Diehl, R.L., & Blicher, D.L. Infant perception of medial stop

consonants. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.,1987.

Cohen, L.B. What Develops in Infant Cognitive Development. Invited presentation to the Third

International Conference on Thinking, Honolulu, 1987. Cohen, L.B. An Information Processing View of Infant Cognitive Development. Invited

presentation at Fyssian Conference on Thought without Language, Versailles, France, 1987.

Cohen, L.B. How Infants Process Visual Information. Invited presentation at Symposium:

Differentiation and Maturation in Child Development. UCLA, 1987. Cohen, L.B. Infant Visual Information Processing. Invited Colloquium, Department of

Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March 1988. Cohen, L.B. A New Model of Infant Speech Perception. Department of Psychology, University

of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March 1988. Cohen, L.B. (Chair) New Directions in Infant Speech Perception. Symposium presented at

International Conference on Infant Studies, Washington D.C., April 1988. Cohen, L.B. & Diehl, R. How Infants Look at Speech: A New Model and Method. Paper

presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Washington D.C., April 1988. Oakes, L.M. & Cohen, L.B. Infant Perception of Causal Events. Poster presented at

International Conference on Infant Studies, Washington D.C., April 1988. Cohen, L.B. Infant Information Processing: With or Without Awareness. Invited presentation

at Baylor University, April 1989. Oakes, L.M., Madole, K.L. & Cohen, L.B. Object Exploration in Infancy: Habituation and

Categorization. Poster presented at Society for Research In Child Development Meeting, Kansas City, MO. April 1989.

Cohen, L.B. (1990, April). Infant perception and cognition: What does and does not develop.

Invited presentation at Cognitive Science Center, University of Texas. Madole, K.L., Oakes, L.M. & Cohen, L.B. (1990, April). What a truck is not: Contrast effects

in infant exploration of objects. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Montreal.

Madole, K.L., Oakes, L.M. & Cohen, L.B. (1991, April) Shake rattle or roll: Infant attention to

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form versus function. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Seattle.

Cohen, L.B. (1991, May). Discussion of symposium on infant cognition: Knowledge of objects,

categories, and events. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago. Cohen, L.B. (1991, May). Infants' understanding of causality. Paper presented at Armadillo

Conference on Cognition. College Station, Tx.. Cohen, L.B. (1991, October). Infant perception of causal events. Invited Colloquium,

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Cohen, L.B. (1991, October). A delicatessen view of development. Informal Colloquium,

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Oakes, L.M., Madole, K.M., & Cohen, L.B. (1991, November). Infant attention to an object's

form/function correlation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco.

Cohen, L.B. (1992, May). The myth of differentiation. Invited Symposium Paper presented at

the International Conference on Infant Studies, Miami. Cohen, L.B. & Oakes, L.M. (1992, May). How infants process physical causality. Poster

presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Miami. Lucksinger, K.L. & Cohen,L.B. (1992, May). What infants infer about hidden objects and

events. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Miami. Cohen, L.B. (1992, September). How infants perceive causal events. Invited Colloquium

presented at Texas A & M University, College Station. Cohen, L.B. (1992, October). Infant perception of causality. Invited Lecture, Seminar on

Cognitive Science, University of Texas, Austin. Cohen, L.B. (1992, November). Infant causal perception, Invited Lecture, University of

Chicago. Madole, K.L, & Cohen, L.B. (1992, November). The development of infant attention to the form

and function of object parts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.

Cohen, L.B. (1993, February). Infant causal perception, Invited Colloquium, Trinity University. Madole, K.L. & Cohen, L.B. (1993, March). Infants’ categorization of form versus function.

Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, New Orleans. Lloyd, V.L., Werker, J.F., & Cohen, L.B. (1993, March). Age changes in infants’ ability to

asociate words with objects. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, New Orleans.

Cohen, L.B. (1993, April). Do infants perceive or understand causal relations? Paper presented

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at the University of Texas Conference on Early Cognition and the Transition to Language, Austin.

Cohen, L.B. . (1993, May). What actually develops in infant perception and cognition?. Invited

Lecture, The Harris Foundation, Chicago. Cohen, L.B. (1993, May). Infant perception of causal events. Invited Colloquium, University of Chicago. Cohen, L.B. (1993, August). Infant perception and cognition: What does and does not develop?

Invited Address, American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto. Cohen, L.B. (1993, November). The development of causal perception in infants. Invited

Colloquium, University of Massachusetts. Cohen, L.B. (1994, February). Infant perception of causality. Invited Address, Southwestern

Society for Research in Human Development, Austin. Bradley, K.L. & Cohen, L.B. . (1994, May). The understanding of solidity by 8-month-old

infants. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, Chicago.

Cohen, L.B. (1994, June). Current perspectives on infant social cognition. Symposium

discussant, International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris. Cohen, L.B. (1994, June). How infants perceive the causality of physical events. Invited

symposium speaker, International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris. Lloyd, V.L., Cohen, L.B., Werker, J.F., Foster, R., & Swanson, C.S. (1994, June). Gender and

motion: Important factors in infants’ ability to learn word-object associations. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris.

Madole, K.L., Cohen, L.B., & Bradley, K.L. (1994, June). Ten-month-old infants categorize

form, but not function. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris.

Cohen, L.B. (1994, October). An information processing approach to infant perception and

cognition. Paper presented at European Research Conference on The Development of Sensory, Motor, and Cognitive Capabilities in Early Infancy, Acquifredda di Maratea, Italy.

Cohen, L.B. (1995, March). How solid is infants' understanding of solidity? Symposium paper

presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Indianapolis. Cohen, L.B., Bradley, K. L., & Casasola, M. (1995, March). Infants’ ability to discriminate

between pushing and pulling. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Indianapolis.

Casasola, M. & Cohen, L.B. (1996, April). The influence of language labels on infants’ ability

to discriminate between pushing and pulling. Poster presented at International Conference

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on Infant Studies, Providence. Cohen, L.B. (1996, February). Infants may be dumber than you think! Invited colloquium,

Psychology Department and Institute for Children ,Youth and Families; Michigan State University,

Cohen, L.B. (1996, April). Infants are dumber than we think. Invited address, Southwestern

Psychological Association Meeting, Houston. Cohen, L.B., Gilbert, K.M., & Brown, P.S. (1996, April). Infant’s understanding of solidity:

Replicating a failure to replicate. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Providence.

Redford, M.A. & Cohen, L.B. (1996, April). Infants’ conceptual understanding of agent and

patient. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Providence. Invited Participant, NICHD Conference on Progress and Promise in the Behavioral Sciences,

March 1997, Bethesda, MD. Cohen , L. B., Amsel, G., & Casasola, M. (1997, April). Precursors to infants’ perception of

causality. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D. C.

Cohen, L. B. & Casasola, M. (1997, April). Infants’ learning of word-object versus word-action

associations. Symposium paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D. C.

Cohen, L. B. (1997, May). The development of infants’ perception of causality. Invited paper

presented at the Armadillo Conference. Dallas. Redford, M.A. & Cohen, L.B. (1997, August). Infants’ conceptual understanding and

organization of agents and patients. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Conference, Palo Alto.

Cohen, L.B. (1997, October) Infants may be dumber than you think. Invited Talk, Department

of Human Ecology, University of Texas. Cohen, L.B. & Cashon, C. (1998, April). Eight-month-old infants’ perception of possible and

impossible events. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta. Cohen, L.B., Rundell, L.J., Spellman, B.A., & Cashon, C. (1998, April). Infants’ perception of

causal chains. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta. Rakison, D.H. & Cohen, L.B. (1998, April). You’ve got to roll with It, baby: The effect of

functional parts on infants’ categorization. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta.

Cashon, C. & Cohen, L. B. (1998, May). Are babies really more interested in impossible

events? Poster presented at 9th Annual Armadillo Conference, Houston.

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Cohen, L.B. (1998, June). An information processing approach to early language acquisition. Invited paper presented at From Speech Perception to Word Learning: A Workshop. University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Cohen, L. B. (1998, August). Infants’ processing of parts and wholes: A developmental perspective.

Symposium paper presented at American Psychological Association Meeting, San Francisco. Cohen, L.B. (1998, November). The development of infants' perception of causal events.

Invited Talk, Center for Research on Language, UCSD. Cohen, L.B. (1998, December) Infants may be dumber than you think. Invited Colloquium,

Human Development Program, UCSD. Cashon, C.H. & Cohen, L.B. (1999, April). Infant Face Perception: Do infants process

independent features or the face as a whole? Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, N.M.

Johnson, S.P., Cohen, L.B., Marks, K.S., Lawson, K.D., Saunders, K.N., & Sheese, B. (1999,

April). Young infants' perception of rotating displays: Further evidence. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, N.M.

Cohen, L.B. (1999, September). Is infant cognition more than an oxymoron? Talk to

Cognition-Perception Program, Department of Psychology, University of Texas. Cohen, L.B. & Cashon, C.H. (1999, October). At what age do infants really perceive faces?

Paper presented at the Armadillo Conference. San Antonio. Cohen, L.B. (2000, February). How infants and experts are alike. Invited Talk, the Forum for

Artificial Intelligence, University of Texas Computer Science Department. Cohen, L.B. (2000, February). The Garden Ridge of infant cognition. Invited talk, Trinity

University, Department of Psychology. Cohen, L.B. (2000, July). How infant cognition relates to infant word learning. Invited paper

presented at International Workshop entitled: Speech perception development in early infancy: behavioural, neural-modelling and brain-imaging data University of Barcelona.

Cohen, L.B. & Cashon, C.H. (2000, July). A puzzle in infant face perception. Poster presented at

International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England. Marks, K.S. & Cohen, L.B. (2000, July). Infants’ reaction to addition and subtraction events.

Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England. Cohen, L.B. (2000, September). How infants and experts are alike. Invited Colloquium,

College of Education, University of Delaware, Newark.

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Cohen, L.B. (2000, September). Evidence for infant arithmetic. Talk to Cognition-Perception

Program, Department of Psychology, University of Texas. Cohen, L.B. (2000, October). Evidence for infant arithmetic just doesn't add up. Paper

presented at Armadillo Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station. Cashon, C.H. & Cohen, L.B. (2000, October). Four-month-old infants' configural responding

to upright and inverted faces. Poster presented at Armadillo Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station.

Cashon, C.H. & Cohen, L.B. (2001, April). Developmental changes in infants’ processing of

faces. Symposium paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Minneapolis.

Cohen, L.B. (2001, April). Uses and Misuses of Habituation: A Theoretical and

Methodological Analysis. Symposium paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Minneapolis.

Chaput, , H. H. & Cohen, L. B. (2001, August). A model of infant causal perception and its

development. Poster presented at Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Edinburgh. Cohen, L. B. (2001, October). The role of complexity in infant perception and cognition.

Symposium paper presented at Cognitive Development Society Meeting, Virginia Beach. Cashon, C. H. & Cohen, L. B. (2002, April). U-Shaped Development in Infants' Processing of

Faces. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto. Cohen, L. B. (2002, April). Can infants really add and subtract? Invited debate presented at

International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto. Cohen, L. B. & Chaput, H. H. (2002, April). Modeling the Development of Infant Causal

Perception. Symposium paper presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto.

Shultz, T. R. & Cohen, L. B. (2002, April). Modeling Age Differences in Category Learning.

Symposium paper presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto. Cohen, L. B. (2002, September). Constructing Infant Cognition. Invited Colloquium,

University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas. Cohen, L. B. (2002, October). A Constructivist Model of Infant Cognitive Development. Invited

Colloquium, Oxford University. Cohen, L. B. (2002, October). A Constructivist Model of Infant Cognitive Development. Invited

Colloquium. Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development. School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London.

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Cohen, L. B. (2002, November). Constructing Infant Cognition. Invited Speaker, Motor

Development Research Colloquium, , University of Texas at Austin. Cohen, L. B. (2003, April). Constructing Infant Cognition. Invited Colloquium, DeVault

Otologic Research Lab, University of Indiana Medical Center, Indianapolis. Cohen, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2003, April). An Information Processing Approach to Infant

Face Perception. Symposium paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Tampa.

Cashon, C. H., Cohen, L. B. & Gora, K. (2003, April). Evidence for infants’ categorical

perception of face orientation. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Tampa.

Cohen, L. B. (2003, October). An information-processing model of infant face perception. Paper

presented at Armadillo Conference. College Station. Cohen, L.B. (2004, May). The Development of Infants' Perception of Causal Events. Invited

Symposium paper presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago. Cohen, L. B., Cashon, C. H., & Rundell, L. (2004, May). Infants' Developing Knowledge of a

Causal Agent. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago. Shield, A., Cohen,, L. B.,& Meier, R. P. (2004, May). Comment les enfants apprennent-ils les

signes pour les objects? Un test expérimental sure la nature des mappages unimodaux. Colloque Surdité et société: L'interdisciplinarité en réadaptation et en éducation. 72e Congrès de l'Acfas, Université du Quebec à Montreal.

Shield, A., Shaw, K., Wright, A.J., Gora, K., Cohen, L. B. & Meier, R. P. (2004, September).

How children learn signs for objects: Testing the nature of unimodal mappings. 8th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. University of Barcelona.

Cohen, L. B. (2005, March). The development of infants' perception of causality: A theoretical

and empirical analysis. Charles Spiker Memorial Lecture, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa.

Brunt, R.J., Gora, K.M., & Cohen, L.B. (2005, April). Building BLOCK for the Investigation of

Early Word Learning and Experience. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta.

Cashon, L. B. & Cashon, C. H. (2005, April). U-shaped Development and Adaptive Constraints

in Infants? Perception of Form-Function Correlations. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta.

Gora, K.M., Brunt, R. J., & Cohen, L. B. (2005, April). Evidence for Mutual Exclusivity in 14-

Month-Old Infants. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development,

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Atlanta. Shield, A., Meier, R. P., Cohen, L. B., Shaw, K., & Rao, G. (2005, April). How Infants Learn

Signs for Objects: Testing the Role of social Reference in Unimodeal Mappings. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta.

Cohen, L. B. (2005, September) Methods and Models in Research on Early Word Learning.

Invited paper presented for NICHD and Merrill Advanced Studies Center Conference on Infant Pathways to Language: Methods, Models, and Research Directions, Tempe.

Blunt, R. J. & Cohen, L. B. (2006, July). Tracking Attentional and Labeling Influences on

Looking Behavior of 13- and 18-month-olds. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies. Kyoto.

Cohen, L. B. (2006, July). Discussion of Mechanisms of Early Face Perception. Symposium

presented at International Conference on Infant Studies. Kyoto. Costa-Giomi, E., Cohen, L. B., & Brock, A. (2006, July). Infants' Discrimination of Timbre in

Music. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies. Kyoto. Brez. C. & Cohen, L.B. (2006, July). Short-Term Memory and Chunking in Infants. Poster

presented at International Conference on Infant Studies. Kyoto. Cohen, L. B. (2006, October). A Bottom-up Approach to Infant Perception and Cognition: A Summary of Evidence and Discussion of Issues. Paper presented at NSF Sponsored Workshop: A Neoconstructivist Approach to Early Cognitive Development. New York. Cohen, L. B. (2006, November). A Constructive Approach to Infant Perception and Cognition. Invited colloquium, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia. Brez, C. & Cohen, L. B. (2006, November). Short-Term Memory And Chunking In Infants. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society Meeting, Houston. Gora, K. M., Blunt, R. J., & Cohen, L. B. (2006, November). Infant Label Learning: Influences of Experience and Prior Label Possession. Poster presented at Psychonomic Society Meeting, Houston. Cohen, L. B. (2007, March). A Bottom-Up Approach to Infant Cognition. Invited Colloquium Speaker, University of Kansas. Briganti, A. M. & Cohen, L. B. (2007, March), Examining the Role of Social Cues in Early Word Learning. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Boston. Brock, A. H., Cohen, L. B., & Costa-Giomi, E. (2007, March). Seven-Month-Old Infants’ Perception of Musical Timbre and Melody. Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Boston. Cohen, L. B. (2008, March). Pros and Cons of the “Switch Design” in Lexical Acquisition and other Infant Learning Tasks. Symposium Paper presented at International Conference on Infant

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Studies, Vancouver. Brez, C., Tomlinson, M., & Cohen, L. (2008, March). Nine-Month-Olds’ Discrimination of Ordinal Information. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver. Costa-Giomi, E., Cohen, L., Brock, A. & Solan, D. (2008, March). Development of Melodic Categorization during the First Year of Life. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver. Brock, A. & Cohen, L. (2008, March). Conceptual Information about Animacy Influences Object Learning in 18-Month-Old Infants. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver. Cohen, L. B. (2008, March). The Evolution of Infant Cognition: A Personal Account. Presidential Address presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver. Brock, A. H., Cohen, L.B. Costa-Giomi, E. & Solan, D. (2009, April). Infant perception of musical timbre and melody: A parallel to speech processing? Symposium paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development Meeting, Denver. RESEARCH INFORMATION Grants Awarded: January 1, 1967 - June 1, 1970 --- Principal Investigator, University Research Board --- $23,453. January 1, 1970 - December 1, 1974 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 03858, NICHHD ---

$125,343. The Development of Habituation in Human Infants. July 1, 1971 - June 30, 1974 --- Co-Director, Grant HD 00244, NICHHD --- $187,390. Training

Grant in Child Development. July 1, 1974 - August 20, 1979 --- Director, Grant HD 00244, NICHHD --- $603,763. Training

Grant in Child Development. July 1, 1975 - June 30, 1978 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 03858, NICHHD --- $178,155.

Habituation and Memory in the Human Infant. September 1, 1976 - August, 31, 1979 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 05951, NICHHD ---

$39,844. Project 3: Cognition in the Retarded Child. July 1, 1978 - June 30, 1980 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 03858, NICHHD --- $91,534.

Information Processing in the Human Infant. September 1, 1979 - August 31, 1980 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 05951, NICHHD ---

$76,372. Project 3: Attention and Cognition in the Aberrant Infant. July 1, 1980 - June 30, 1982 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 15035, NICHHD --- $101,530.

Information Processing in the Human Infant.

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July 1, 1982 - June 30, 1986 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 15035, NICHHD --- $247,286.

Infant Processing of Relational Information. July 1, 1983 - June 30, 1985 --- Submitter for SRCD, Foundation for Child Development Grant

to Society for Research in Child Development for support of SRCD Study Groups, $35,000.

June 1, 1984 - May 31, 1987 --- Co-Principal Investigator (with Randy Diehl), Grant HD 18060

--- $214,190. Perception of Rhythm and Speech in Infants. May 1, 1987 - April 30, 1988 --- Principal Investigator -- University of Texas URI grant, Infant

Perception of Subjective Contours, $5,000. September 1, 1987 - August 30, 1991 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 23397, NICHHD ---

$319,762, Infant Visual Information Processing. January 1989 - Project Quest Grant, University of Texas. Approximately $7000 in Macintosh

Equipment. September 1991 - NIH Small Instrument Grant $5,999. September 1991 - August 1994 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 23397, NICHHD ---$283,867, Infant Visual Information Processing. September 1994 - June 1999 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 23397, NICHHD ---$442,598, Infant Visual Information Processing. March 1, 1995 - August 31, 1998 --- Principal Investigator, Grant HD 23397-S, NICHHD -- $85,996. Supplement for Minority Graduate Assistant to Infant Visual Information Processing. September 24, 1999 -June 30, 2005 --Principal Investigator, Renewal of Grant HD 23397, NICHHD --$1,112,461. Infant Visual Information Processing. September 2006-August 2007 Co-Principal Investigator with Eugenia Costa-Giami, Internal Research Grant from U.T. $6000. Infants’ Categorization of Melody May 2007-April 2008. Co-Principal Investigator with Eugenia Costa-Giami. Grammy foundation/grant $37,375. Infant Categorization of Melody ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 1968-69 Psi Chi Faculty Advisor, 1967-68 Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, 1968-70 Chair, Child Development Area Committee, 1968-69 Member, Special Admissions Committee, 1969-71 Member, Graduate Study Committee, 1970-71 Member, Departmental Advisory Committee, 1971-72 Director, Day Care Training Program, 1971-74 Co-Director, Child Development Training Grant, University of Illinois, 1971-74

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Member, Special Admissions Committee, 1972-73 Member, Undergraduate Study Committee, 1972-73 Director, Child Development Training Grant, 1974-79 Chair, Developmental Psychology Program, 1974-75 Member, Children's Research Center Advisory Committee, 1974-75 Member, University of Illinois Academic Senate, 1975-76 Member, Institutional Review Board, University of Illinois, 1976-79 Member, APA, Division 7, Nominations Committee, 1977-78 Member, APA, Division 7, Credentials Committee, 1978 Chair, APA, Division 7, Credentials Committee, 1979 Chair, Developmental Psychology Search Committee, 1980-81 Member, Department of Psychology Human Research Committee, 1980-82 Member, S.R.C.D., Committee on Summer Institutes and Study Groups, 1981-83 Member, APA, Division 7, Nominations Committee, 1981-82 Member, APA, Division 7, Boy McCandless Award Committee, 1981-83 Arrangements Chairman, International Conference on Infant Studies, 1981-82 Director, Children's Research Laboratory, University of Texas, 1981-present Chair, Developmental Psychology Area, Dept.of Psychology, 1982-83 Chair, APA, Division 7, Boyd McCandless Award Committee, 1983 Chair, S.R.C.D.Committee on Summer Institutes and Study Groups, 1983-1985 Member, Psychology Human Subjects Committee, 1984-1988. Member, Psychology Executive Committee, 1985-6. Chair, Psychology Graduate Studies Committee, 1985-6 Chair, Developmental Search Committee, 1985-6. Member, S.R.C.D.Committee on Summer Institutes and Study Groups, 1985-1987 Alternate Member, Liberal Arts Advisory Council (for Department of Psychology) 1987-1988 Member, Psychology Graduate Education Committee 1988 Member, Undergraduate Education Committee 1988 Nominee for President, Division 7, APA 1988 Site Visitor, Human Developmental Study Section, 1988. Participant in and consultant for "The Mind" PBS series produced by WNET, 1988-1989 Participant Faculty Advisory Committee 1988 - present Chair, Psychology Human Subjects Committee, 1988 - present Member University of Texas Internal Review Board, 1988 - present Chair, Developmental Search Committee, 1988-1989 Site Visitor, Human Developmental Study Section, 1989. Site Visitor, Merrill-Palmer Institute, 1990 Nominee for President, Division 7, APA 1990 Consultant to Psychological Corp. on revision of Bayley Scales of Infant Development 1991-1992 Chair, Departmental Ad Hoc committee on Psychology 418 - 1991 External Advisor, Graduate Student's program at Southern Illinois University 1991 Member, Cognitive Search Committee 1991 (Department of Psychology) Member, Promotion Review Committee 1991 (Department of Linguistics) Consultant to Oxford University Press 1991-1992 Consultant to National Institute of Health, Division of Maternal and Child Health 1992-1993 Chair, Cognitive Search Committee 1992-1993. Member, APA, Division 7, Credentials Committee, 1993. Member, APA, Division 7, Executive Committee, 1993 Chair, APA, Division 7, Credentials Committee, 1994 Secretary/Treasurer, APA, Division 7, 1995-1998.

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Chair, Wechsler Chair Search Committee 1996-1998 APA Dissertation Award Committee 1997 Dean's Promotion Committee 2000 Chair, Human Developmental Neuroscience Search Committee 2000 University of Texas Institutional Review Board 2004- 2007 EDITORIAL AND REVIEWING DUTIES Founding Editor - Infancy, Official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies:1998-2003. Associate Editor - Developmental Psychology, 1977-78 Consulting Editor - Infant Behavior and Development, 1978-1982 Consulting Editor - Child Development, 1973-77 Consulting Editor - Developmental Psychology, 1990 Consulting Editor - Infancy, 2004 - present Guest Editor - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Guest Editor - American Journal of Psychology Guest Editor - Science Guest Editor - International Journal of Behavioral Development Guest Editor - Infant Behavior and Development Guest Editor - Developmental Science Guest Editor - Infant and Child Development Guest Editor - Developmental Psychobiology Ad Hoc Reviewer - numerous grants for N.S.F., N I.M.H., and N.I.C.H.D. Ad Hoc Member - N.I.H. Human Development Study Section , 1983-1984 Member - N.I.H. Human Development Study Section , 1984-1989 Chair - N.I.H. Human Development Study Section , 1987-1989 Ad Hoc Member - N.I. M.H. Small Grants Study Section, 1990 Member - APA, Division 7, Mentor Award Committee - 2004