Cognitive News

In a new approach to this multi-faceted and seemingly intractable problem, Most is partnering with Dr. Sandra Hassink, director of the Pediatric Weight Management Clinic at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children; Meredith Lutz Stehl, a clinical psychologist at the hospital; and James Hoffman and Robert Simons, professors in UD's Department of Psychology. Their collaborative research is aimed at assessing whether individuals struggling with weight management exhibit characteristic neuro-cognitive indices related to attentional control and self-control.

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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.

Steven Most, assistant professor of psychology, is quoted and the University of Delaware mentioned in the new book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt. The book was featured in the Aug. 10 issue of The New York Times, and is No. 10 on the newspaper's hardcover nonfiction bestseller list. See the complete UDaily UD in the News for Aug. 29.