Susan Hespos

Susan Hespos

Susan Hespos

Associate Professor, Learning Sciences
Associate Professor, Psychology

hespos@northwestern.edu

Awards/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.

Research Interests

Object representation, number and spatial relationships.