Active Members: People: Cognition & Learning Laboratory: Indiana University

Principal Investigator

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Elizabeth Gunderson, PhD., Professor

Elizabeth Gunderson, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Chicago in 2012 and her B.A. in Computer Science & Psychology from Yale University in 2005. Dr. Gunderson’s research focuses on the cognitive and socio-emotional factors that affect young children’s academic achievement, especially in the domain of mathematics.

Lab Manager

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Noah Scott

Noah received his B.A. in Psychology with a Clinical Psychology Certificate from Indiana University in 2023. As a research assistant in Dr. Linda Smith’s Cognitive Development Lab, he studied possible contributors to the A-not-B error in 9-14-month-old children, including interaction timing and attention. He hopes studying new interventions for non-clinical child populations while in the Cognition and Learning Lab will help prepare him for a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program.

Leslie Amarachi Duru

Leslie received her B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA in 2023. As a research assistant in Dr. Catherine Sandhofer’s Language and Cognitive Development Lab, she examined the acquisition of antonyms in 3–6-year-olds as a result of their learning environments. She hopes to continue to unravel the mechanisms that determine how children develop and learn typically and atypically and utilize neuropsychological findings to implement research-based interventions in the educational and healthcare system.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Roberto A. Abreu-Mendoza, PhD.

Dr. Roberto A. Abreu-Mendoza is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. He completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at Rutgers University-Newark, under the supervision of Dr. Miriam Rosenberg-Lee. Roberto is interested in examining which cognitive capacities and neural correlates allow for the development of numerical abilities in the course of a person’s life.

Hyekyung Park, PhD.

Dr. Hyekyung Park is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. She completed her Ph.D. in Psychology at Ohio State University, supervised by Dr. John Opfer. Hyekyung is interested in investigateing cognitive factors that are related to children’s numerical skills and exploring strategies that enhance mathematical thinking.

Graduate Students

Xinhe Zhang

Xinhe Zhang is a third-year graduate student in Dr. Gunderson’s Lab. She received her M.Sc. in Psychology at the University of Birmingham in 2017. She is interested in the development of spatial and numerical processing, with a focus on the relationship between spatial and numerical processing, and the mechanisms of spatial training and numerical training.

Mariana Sosa

Mariana Sosa is a first-year graduate student in Dr. Gunderson's Lab. She received her M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is interested in the development of numerical and spatial skills, with a focus on understanding the ways in which parents and teachers can effectively support learning in these domains.