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Susan J Hespos

  • 1259 Citations
1995 …2022
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Research Interests

Focuses on the earliest evidence of our cognitive capacities in infancy and describes what changes over development.

Education/Academic qualification

Developmental Psychology, PhD, Emory University

… → 1996

Cognitive Psychology, MA, Emory University

… → 1993

Psychology, BA, Reed College

… → 1990

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Grants 2006 2022

Increasing parents' verbal responsiveness and children's everyday conversations with adults can help in building and supporting children's language development

Hespos, S. J.

Metropolitan Family Services

10/1/18 → 6/30/21

Project: Research project

parents
conversation
language
learning
community

The Development of Relational Processing in Infancy

Hespos, S. J.

National Science Foundation

8/15/17 → 7/31/20

Project: Research project

infant
ability
language
learning
learning prerequisite

Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program

Acosta, A., Allada, R., Apkarian, A., Awatramani, R., Beeman, M., Bevan, M. D., Bozza, T. C., Cang, J., Chetkovich, D. M., Cobia, D. J., Contractor, A., Corcos, D. M., DeVries, S. H., Dewald, J. P. A., Dhar, S., Disterhoft, J. F., Dombeck, D. A., Elliott, J. M., Feng, Y., Ferreira, A. B., Gallio, M., Garcia-Anoveros, J., George Jr, A. L., Geula, C., Gordon, K. E., Gottfried, J. A., Grafman, J. H., Hartmann, M. J. Z., Heckman, C., Hespos, S. J., Jayaraman, A., Kahnt, T., Kearney, J. A., Kessler, J., Kiskinis, E., Kohtz, J., Kording, K. P., Kozorovitskiy, Y., Krainc, D., Larson, C., Lee, S. S. M., Li, L., Losh, M. C., Maccaferri, G., MacIver, M. A., Martina, M., Mazzulli, J., McLean, D., Mesulam, M., Miller, L. E., Miller, R. J., Mussa-Ivaldi, F., Nusslock, R., Opal, P., Ozdinler, P. H., Paller, K., Parrish, T. B., Prakriya, M., Radulovic, J., Raman, I. M., Reber, P. J., Redei, E., Rogalski, E., Sanchez, J. T., Sanz-Clemente, A., Savas, J. N., Schmidt, T. M., Schwartz, G. W., Segraves, M., Shepherd, G. M. G., Siddique, T., Solla, S. A., Surmeier Jr, D. J., Swanson, G. T., Topczewski, J., Tresch, M. C., Tysseling, V. M., Vassar, R. J., Voss, J. L., Wainwright, D. A., Wang, L., Weintraub, S., Woolley, C. S. & Wright, B. A.

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

5/1/17 → 4/30/22

Project: Research project

neurosciences
graduate
university
education

Investigating the Origin and Development of Analogical Processing

Gentner, D. & Hespos, S. J.

National Science Foundation

7/1/14 → 6/30/18

Project: Research project

infant
language
ability
learning
learning prerequisite

REU Participant Support Costs for SP0027134

Hespos, S. J. & Hespos, S. J.

National Science Foundation

7/1/14 → 6/30/18

Project: Research project

infant
costs
language
ability
learning

Research Output 1995 2019

Concepts of objects and substances in language

Rips, L. & Hespos, S. J., Aug 15 2019, In : Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 26, 4, p. 1238-1256 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

Names
Language
Daucus carota
Child Development
Mass Nouns
4 Citations (Scopus)

Automated analysis of written narratives reveals abnormalities in referential cohesion in youth at ultra high risk for psychosis

Gupta, T., Hespos, S. J., Horton, W. S. & Mittal, V. A., Feb 1 2018, In : Schizophrenia Research. 192, p. 82-88 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Psychotic Disorders
Verbal Learning
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Schizophrenia
Language
2 Citations (Scopus)

Comparison within pairs promotes analogical abstraction in three-month-olds

Anderson, E. M., Chang, Y. J., Hespos, S. J. & Gentner, D., Jul 1 2018, In : Cognition. 176, p. 74-86 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

abstraction
Learning
infant
learning
evidence
1 Citation (Scopus)

Five-month-old infants have expectations for the accumulation of nonsolid substances

Anderson, E. M., Hespos, S. J. & Rips, L., Jun 1 2018, In : Cognition. 175, p. 1-10 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

infant
Cues
experiment
evidence
Research Personnel
1 Citation (Scopus)

How similar are objects and events?

Wellwood, A., Hespos, S. J. & Rips, L., Jun 1 2018, In : Acta Linguistica Academica. 65, 2-3, p. 473-501 29 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

ontology
event
language
evidence
Entity