Psychology Faculty Profiles
Susan J. Hespos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Cognitive Psychology
Office: Swift 212
Phone: (847) 467-1394
E-mail: hespos@northwestern.edu
Research Interests
Object representation, number, and spatial relationships.
Selected Publications
Hespos, S.J., Gredebeck, G., von Hofsten, C., & Spelke, E.S. (2009). Occlusion is hard: Comparing predictive reaching for visible and hidden objects in infants and adults. In press at Cognitive Science.
Hespos, S.J., Ferry, A., Rips, L. (2009). Five-month-old infants have different expectations for solids and liquids. Psychological Science, 20(5), 603 - 611.
Ferry, A., Hespos, S.J., & Waxman, S. (2009). Categorization in 3- and 4-month-old Infants: An Advantage of Words Over Tones. Manuscript in press at Child Development.
Hespos, S.J., Ferry, A. L., Cannistraci, C., Gore, J., Park, S. (2009) Optical imaging on human infants. To appear in A.W. Roe (Ed.) Imaging the brain with optical methods. Springer: New York.
