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As any parent or caregiver will tell you, figuring out how to keep an infant happy can be a challenging task. Understanding how infants as young as three months old synthesize and catalogue information is the much more difficult task Paul Quinn tackles in his infant cognition research.

Does the language one speaks affect the way one thinks? Do people who speak different languages see the world differently? Professor Anna Papafragou has always been interested in these questions about the relationship between language and thought. An Assistant Professor of Psychology with a secondary appointment in Linguistics, Papafragou studies the relationship between linguistic and conceptual representations in both children and adults. She has gathered data in several countries – Mexico, Turkey, Korea, Greece and Germany, among others – using many different methods. Now, her work is taking another bold step, using sophisticated new eye-tracking techniques to collect data from young children in Greece.

A student-advisor relationship is a two-way street. Graduate students gain valuable training and support, advisors gain new ideas about research. But why do some grad students say mentors are the key to their success?

The UDaily details how four Department of Psychology graduate students won internships via a process more "structured and systematic than most job searches".

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Cal Izard received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct translational and intervention research on facilitating the development of social, emotional, and academic competence in young children and preventing aggression, depressive disorders, and the development of psychopathology.