Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor, Psychology
hespos@northwestern.eduAwards/Honors
- 2006 - Distinguished Teaching Award from the Undergraduate Psychology Association Northwestern University
- 2004 - Professor of the Month, Selected by the Greek Community / Panhellenic Council Vanderbilt University
- 2000 - McDonnell-Pew Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience Fellow, Dartmouth College
Research/Scholarship
Education
| Year | Degree | Institution |
| 1996 | PhD, Developmental Psychology | Emory University |
| 1993 | MA, Cognitive Psychology | Emory University |
| 1990 | BA, Psychology | Reed College |
Selected Publications
Hespos, S.J., Dora, B., Rips, L., & Christie, S. (Working Paper/In Press/Under Review). Infants make quantity discriminations for substances. Child Development.Hespos, S. J. (2010). What is optical imaging?. Journal of Cognition and Development: 3-15.
Ferry, A., Hespos, S.J., & Waxman, S. (2010). Categorization in 3- and 4-month-old Infants: An Advantage of Words Over Tones. Child Development: 472-479.