CURRICULUM VITAE Name Address Jill Lany Department of Psychology University of Notre Dame Haggar Hall, Room 118-C Notre Dame, IN 46566 E-Mail jlany@nd.edu Telephone (574) 661-4524 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2010 present Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2007-2010 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2001 2007 The University of Arizona, Psychology Department (Ph.D. received February, 2007) 2000 2001 The Johns Hopkins University, Psychology Department 1998 2000 Research Assistant to Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow and Dr. Jana Iverson, The University of Chicago 1994 1998 New College of Florida, BA AWARDS AND HONORS 2008-2010 recipient of a National Research Service Award (1F32HD057698) from NICHD 2005 recipient of the competitive University of Arizona Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute Dissertation Research Grant 2004 recipient of the competitive University of Arizona Cognitive Science Fellowship PUBLICATIONS
Lany, J., & Saffran, J.R. (2010). From Statistics to Meanings: Infants Acquisition of Lexical Categories. Psychological Science, 21, 284-291. Lany, J., & Saffran, J.R. (in press). Statistical learning and language acquisition in infancy. To appear in Tager-Flusberg (Eds). Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience. Hay, J.F., & Lany, J. (in press). Statistical learning begets learning in early language development. To appear in P. Rebuschat & J. Williams (Eds.) Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2010). Prior experience shapes abstraction and generalization in language acquisition. In M. Banach & D. Caccamise (Eds.) Generalization of Knowledge: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Psychology Press. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2008). 12-Month-Olds Benefit from Prior Experience in Statistical Learning. Psychological Science, 19, 1274-1252. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L., & Gerken, L.A. (2007). The role of prior experience in language acquisition. Cognitive Science. 31, 481-507. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2004). The role of prior experience in biasing generalization in artificial language learning. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Iverson, J., Tencer, H., & Lany, J., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2000). The relation between gesture and speech in congenitally blind and sighted language-learners. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 24, 105-130. PAPERS SUBMITTED AND IN PREPARATION Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (under revision). Acquisition of probabilistic structure in an artificial language benefits from prior experience. Lany, J., & Saffran, J.R. (submitted). Interactions between statistical and semantic information in infant language development. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (in prep). Sex differences in 12-month-olds acquisition of nonadjacent dependencies as a function of prior experience. Lany, J., & Saffran, J.R. (in prep). Mechanisms underlying infants acquisition of correlated statistical and semantic properties of syntactic categories. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Lany, J., & Saffran, J.R. (2010). Statistical learning plays a meaningful role in infants acquisition of syntactic categories. Symposium Chair. 2010 International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, March. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2009). Experience with multiple exemplars shapes sensitivity to statistical regularities in an artificial language. Sixth Biennal Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, San Antonio, October. Hay, J.F., & Lany, J. (2009). Statistical learning begets learning in early language development. Georgetown University Round Table: Implicit & Explicit Conditions, Processes, and Knowledge in SLA & Bilingualism, Georgetown, March. Lany, J. (2008). The role of statistical learning in acquiring syntactic categories. 33 rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2008). Does acquisition of probabilistic structure benefit from prior experience? Poster presented at the 20 th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, May. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2008). Benefits From Prior Experience in Statistical Learning: The Role of Perceptual vs. Abstract Similarity. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, April. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2007). Benefits From Prior Experience in Statistical Learning: The Role of Perceptual vs. Abstract Similarity. Poster presented at the Joint Meeting of the Psychonomic Society and the Experimental Psychology Society, Edinburgh, July. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2007). 12-Month-Olds Benefit from Prior Experience in Statistical Learning. The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, March. Gomez, R.L., & Lany, J. (2006). Constraining Learning: How Infants Chose Among Different Kinds of Structure. 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, November. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2006). 12-Month-Olds Benefit from Prior Experience in Statistical Learning. Early Language Development and Disorders Latsis Colloquium of the University of Geneva. Geneva, January. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2005). 12-Month-Olds Benefit from Prior Experience in Statistical Learning. 30 th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November.
Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2005). 12-Month-Olds Benefit from Prior Experience in Statistical Learning. Fourth Biennal Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, October. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2004). The role of prior experience in biasing generalization in artificial language learning. 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, August. Lany, J., & Gomez, R.L. (2004). Transfer in statistical learning from more to less-reliably cued structure. Poster presented at the 14 th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, May. Gomez, R.L., & Lany, J. (2004). Choosing among multiple sources of information in linguistic input. 14 th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, May. Gomez, R.L., Welch, K., & Lany (2003). Dynamically guided learning. 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, November. Gomez, R.L, Lany, J., & Welch, K. (2003). Dynamically guided learning. 28 th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November. Iverson, J., Tencer, H., Lany, J., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2000). The role of gesture in early language acquisition: A longitudinal study. Poster presented at the 13 th Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, May. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall, 2010 Instructor. Cognitive Development, University of Notre Dame Summer, 2004 Summer, 2003 Spring, 2001 Fall, 2000 Instructor. Cognitive Development, University of Arizona Instructor. Introductory Laboratory in Psychology, University of Arizona Teaching Assistant. Introduction to Clinical Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University Teaching Assistant. Psychology and Law, The Johns Hopkins University PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Ad hoc reviewer for Brain Research, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Journal of Memory and Language, Language and Cognitive Processes, Journal of Child Language, and Language Learning and Development Ad hoc grant reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council
Review panel for the Cognitive Science Society conference, 2010 ACADEMIC SERVICE 2010-present Student Research Participation (Subject Pool) Committee, University of Notre Dame 2003-2003 Colloquium Committee, The University of Arizona 2000-2001 Graduate Student Representative, Johns Hopkins University