People
Oakes Lab Personnel
Dr. Lisa Oakes
Principal Investigator
Dr. Oakes received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991 and was a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Iowa from 1991 to 2006. She joined the University of California Davis community in 2006 and is a Professor of Psychology.
Ian Messenger
Psychology Graduate Student
Ian received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 2005, majoring in Linguistics and Psychology. His interests include how infants learn about “features” of objects (different aspects and properties of objects, whether they include what the object looks like, what they are called or what they can do), and how infants learn to put those different features together in both short and long term memory to coherently represent an object category. He is also interested in how different learning contexts affect what features infants attend to and remember.
Karinna Hurley
Human Development Graduate Student
She received her BA and MA degrees from the University of California - Santa Barbara in 2003 and 2005, where she studied Literature and Child and Adolescent Development. She also received an MS degree in the Evolution of Language and Cognition from The University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research interests include children’s memory, categorization, and how contextual factors outside the lab impact learning within the lab. Specifically, she is interested in the role pets play in infants cognitive development.
Lisa Christoffer
Lab Manager
Lisa graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree majoring in Psychology with a minor emphasis in Human Relations. She joined the University of California Davis Community as the Infant Cognition Lab Manager in 2007.
Fall 2006 Undergraduate Research Assistants
Julie Anders, Katianne Howard, and Stephanie Hunt
Winter 2007 Undergraduate Research Assistants
Nick Chin, Christine Godwin, Julie Anders, Stephanie Hunt, and Katianne Howard
Spring 2007 Undergraduate Research Assistants
Stephanie Hunt, Nick Chin, Rachel Richards, Kristen Chui, Katianne Howard, Julie Anders, and Christine Godwin
Summer 2007 Undergraduate Research Assistants
Emily Spring, Monisha Paripatyadar, Christine Godwin, and Lindsey Miller
Cognitive Development Society Conference
Ian Messenger and Karinna Hurley
Winter 2008 Lab Members
Amanda Olson, Marina Kaminetskaya, Courtney Millhoff, Lindsey Miller,Whitney Eich, Emily Spring, Ian Messanger, Lisa Christoffer, Karinna
Hurley, Monisha Paripatyadar, Christine Godwin.
Not pictured: Kristen Chui and Julie Le
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