Ariel Starr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Interests: Development of higher-level cognitive skills including language, memory, and abstract reasoning
Contact
| abstarr@uw.edu | |
| Website(s) | Website coming soon! |
Advising
| Do I accept and train new psychology graduate students in general? |
|---|
| Yes |
| Am I accepting new graduate students in the upcoming year? |
| I am accepting graduate students in 2020-2021 |
| Advising Areas: |
| Developmental |
Research
My research investigates how children create new knowledge from existing representations. I’m particularly interested in how language interacts with other cognitive abilities over development to give rise to uniquely human abilities. My lab uses behavioral and eye-tracking methodologies with infants and children to answer questions about the development of memory, language, numerical cognition, abstract concepts, and other topics.
Selected Publications
- Starr, A., Vendetti, M., & Bunge, S.A. (2018). Eye movements provide insight into individual differences in children’s analogical reasoning strategies. Acta Psychologica, 186, 18-26.
- Starr, A., DeWind, N.K., & Brannon, E.M. (2017). The contributions of numerical acuity and non-numerical stimulus features to the development of the number sense and symbolic math achievement. Cognition, 168, 222-233.
- Starr, A. & Brannon, E.M. (2016). Visuospatial working memory influences the interaction between space and time. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1839-1845.
- Starr, A., & Srinivasan, M. (In press). Spatial metaphor promotes cross-domain mappings in early childhood. Developmental Psychology.