Ariel Starr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
(206) 543-2654
Advising:
Not accepting new graduate students in 2026-2027.
Interests: Development of higher-level cognitive skills including language, memory, and abstract reasoning
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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.
Education
Duke University
- January 8, 2026 Ariel Starr Shares Benefits of Reading in Women.com Article
- September 7, 2022 Ariel Starr & Colleagues Published in Developmental Science
- June 16, 2022 Ariel Starr received a 5-year NSF research award
- October 25, 2021 Ariel Starr received a two-year, $10,000 award from the French American Cultural Exchange
- Starr, A., & Srinivasan, M. (2018). Spatial metaphor promotes cross-domain mappings in early childhood. Developmental Psychology.
- 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.