Jessica Sommerville, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
| Degree From: University of Chicago |
| Interests: early social and physical reasoning; action/perception linkages; role of agency in cognitive development; memory development |
Contact
Advising
| Do I accept and train new psychology graduate students in general? |
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| Yes |
| Developmental |
Research
Dr. Sommerville studies cognitive development from infancy through preschool with an emphasis on social and physical reasoning, action/perception relations and memory development.
Research Publications
- Sommerville, J. A. & Woodward, A. L. (in press). The link between action production and action processing in infancy. In Franck Grammont (Ed). Naturalizing Intention in Action.
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- Sommerville, J. A. & Woodward, A. L. (2004). Pulling out the intentional structure of action: The relation between action processing and action production in infancy. Cognition, in press.
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- Sommerville, J. A., Woodward, A. L., Needham, A. (2004). Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others actions. Cognition, in press
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