Dr. Teresa Wilcox

Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Arizona (1993)

Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4235

Office: 247 Psychology Building
email: tgw@psyc.tamu.edu
Phone: (979) 845-0618
Fax: (979) 845-4727
Web: http://psych...infantlab/

Infant Cognition

• Object individuation and representation
• Intermodal processing
• Physical reasoning
• Categorization
  

My research program focuses on infants� knowledge of physical objects, the aspects of this knowledge that infants possess at birth or soon after and those that are acquired more gradually, and the mechanisms (both experiential and biological) that support knowledge acquisition during the first year. Most of my research explores these issues within the context of object individuation and intermodal processing.

2005

National Science Foundation, $74,000 - Neuroimaging of Object Processing in Human Infants

2005

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $331,000 - The Neural Basis of Object Processing

2004

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $145,000 - Auditory Information and Object Individuation in Infancy

1998

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $150,000 - Object Individuation and Event Representation in Infancy: The Mapping Problem

1998

Advanced Research Program, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, $100,620 - Object Individuation and Event Representation in Infancy

1. Wilcox, T., Woods, R., Tuggy, L., Napoli, R., & Woods, R. (2006). Shake, rattle, and…. one or two objects? Infants’ use of sound information to individuate objects. Infancy, 9, 97-123.



2. T., Bortfeld, H., Woods, R., Wruck, E., & Boas, D. A. (2005). Using near-infrared spectroscopy to assess neural activation during object processing in infants. Journal of Biomedical Optics



3. Wilcox, T., & Chapa, C. (2004). Priming infants to use color and pattern information in an individuation task. Cognition, 90, 265-302.



4. Wilcox, T., & Schweinle, A. (2003). Infants’ use of speed of motion to individuate objects in occlusion events. Infant Behavior and Development, 26, 253-282.



5. Wilcox, T., Schweinle, A., & Chapa. (2003). Object individuation in infancy. In F. Fagan & H. Hayne (Eds). Progress in Infancy Research, (Vol 3). (pp. 193-243). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.



6. Wilcox, T. (1999). Object Individuation: Infants’ use of shape, size, pattern, and color. Cognition, 72, 125-166.



7. Wilcox, T., & Baillargeon, R. (1998). Object individuation in infancy: The use of featural information in reasoning about occlusion events. Cognitive Psychology, 37, 97-155.

2004 - Proposal Planning Grant, Texas A&M University, $30,000
2003 - Children, Youth, and Families Seed Grant, Texas A&M University, $10,700
2003 - Research Enhancement Program, Texas A&M University, $5,000
2001 - Program for Enhancement of Scholarly & Creative Activities, Texas A&M University, $7,500
1996 - Research Enhancement Program, University of Texas, Arlington, $8,345
1993-1995 - Postdoctoral Fellowship, NICHD Training Grant, University of Illinois, U-C

PSYC 634 - Principles of Human Development
PSYC 636 - Infant Cognition
PSYC 489 - Life-span Development
PSYC 307 - Developmental Psychology

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