Psychology Faculty Profiles
Susan J. Hespos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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. & Spelke, E. S. (2004). Conceptual precursors to spatial language. Nature, 430, 453 - 456.
Hespos, S. J. (2004). Language: Life without numbers, Current Biology, 14, R927 - R928
Hespos, S. J. & Baillargeon, R. (2006). Decalage in infants’ reasoning about occlusion and containment events: Converging evidence from action tasks. Manuscript in press at Cognition.

