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 Rachel Barr
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I received my PhD from the University of Otago, in New Zealand in Developmental Psychology. My dissertation completed at the Otago Early Learning Project was titled infant imitation in 12- to 18-month-olds. I also trained as a Clinical Psychologist. After completing my PhD, I moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey, to do post-doctoral training and worked at the Rutgers Early Learning project where I studied how infants associate different memories. Taken together, my research to date has shown that infants pick up information from a variety of sources, from television, from siblings, and across contexts and that this behavior changes as a function of age. Now at the Georgetown Early Learning Project I continue to study how infants pick up information. At present, we are particularly interested in how infants transfer information from 2-D to 3-D in order to learn from television, computers, or books. Current questions include: How do infants process 2-dimensional images and transfer that knowledge to the 3-dimensional world? What features do they pay particular attention to and does that attention capture enhance their ability to transfer information? Can they learn multiple pieces of information from television at once and if so what do they do with that information? Psychology Department webpage |
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