CURRICULUM VITAE Audrey K. Kittredge October 31, 2013 ADDRESS: Psychology Department TELEPHONE: 607-351-7518 5000 Forbes Avenue EMAIL: audreyk@andrew.cmu.edu Pittsburgh, PA 15213 EDUCATION Dec. 2012-present Dec. 2012 Post-doctoral Trainee Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research (IES-funded) Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign Thesis Immediate transfer of learning from speech perception to speech production 2007 M.A. in Cognitive Psychology 2004 B.A. in Linguistics Brown University (magna cum laude) 2002 Associate of Arts Simon's Rock College of Bard HONORS AND AWARDS 2012 Sarah C. Mangelsdorf Award for excellence in research, scholarship, and teaching, and showing the potential to be an academic leader Department of Psychology, 2012 Graduate College Conference Travel Award for presentations at the XVIII Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN 2009 Fellowship to attend Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural sciences San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (March 2011)
Audrey K. Kittredge 2 2009 Best Student Paper Award, presentation given by co-author N. Nozari 47 th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Boston, MA 2008 Lanier Conference Travel Award for talk at the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Moscow, Russia Department of Psychology, 2006-2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2005-2006 Traineeship, Language Processing Training Program (NIH-funded) 2004 Annual Class of 1873 Award Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Brown University 2003 Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship Brown University 2000-2002 Dean s List Simon s Rock College of Bard 2001 Faculty Scholarship Simon's Rock College of Bard 2000 Acceleration to Excellence Program partial scholarship Simon's Rock College of Bard RESEARCH INTERESTS Broad cognitive development educational interventions Specific effects of early experience on learning in later childhood and adulthood language acquisition transfer of learning scientific thinking in young children
Audrey K. Kittredge 3 TEACHING INTERESTS Cognitive Development Cognitive Psychology Introduction to Cognitive Science Introductory Psychology Psycholinguistics Research Methods and Statistics JOURNAL ARTICLES Baillargeon, R., Stavans, M., Wu, D., Gertner, Y., Setoh, P., Kittredge, A. K., & Bernard, A. (2012). Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy: An integrative account. Language Learning and Development, 8(1), 4-46. Nozari, N., Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2010). Naming and repetition in aphasia: Steps, routes, and frequency effects. Journal of Memory and Language, 63(4), 541-559. Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., Verkuilen, J., & Schwartz, M. F. (2008). Where is the effect of lexical frequency in word production? Insights from aphasic picture naming errors. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25(4), 463-492. Dell, G.S., Oppenheim, G.M., & Kittredge, A.K. (2008). Saying the right word at the right time: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic interference in sentence production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 583-608. Kittredge, A., Davis, L., & Blumstein, S. E. (2006). Effects of nonlinguistic auditory variations on lexical processing in Broca s aphasia. Brain & Language, 97(1), 25-40. CONFERENCE PAPERS Kittredge, A. K., & Dell, G. S. (2011). Implicit learning of phonotactic constraints: Transfer from perception to production. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33 rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. Mirman, D., Kittredge, A. K., & Dell, G. S. (2010). Effects of near and distant phonological neighbors on picture naming. Proceedings of the 32 nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, Oregon: Cognitive Science Society. Dell, G. S., Nozari, N., Kittredge, A. K., & Schwartz, M. F. (2009). Theoretical perspectives on impairments in spoken language processing. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Cognitive Science Society.
Audrey K. Kittredge 4 Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2007). Omissions in aphasic picture naming: Late age-of-acquisition is the culprit, not low semantic density. Brain and Language, 103(1-2), 132-133. Apfelbaum, K. S., Blumstein, S. E., & Kittredge, A. (2007). The neural systems underlying lexical competition in speech production: Evidence from aphasia. Brain and Language, 103(1-2), 10-11. Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2006). Aphasic picture-naming errors reveal the influence of lexical variables on production stages. Brain and Language, 99(1-2), 216-217. Steingold, E., Spelke, E., & Kittredge, A. (2003). Linguistic cues influence acquisition of number words. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA: Cognitive Science Society. BOOK CHAPTERS Dell, G. S., & Kittredge, A. K. (in press). Prediction, Production, Priming, and implicit learning: A framework for psycholinguistics. In Sanz, M., Laka, I., & Tanenhaus, M. (Eds.), Understanding Language: Forty Years Down the Garden Path. Oxford University Press. Dell, G. S., & Kittredge, A. K. (2010). Connectionist models of aphasia and other language impairments. In Guendouzi, J., Loncke, F., & Williams, M. (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistic & Cognitive Processes: Perspectives in Communication Disorders. Taylor & Francis. MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (in preparation). Experience matters more when the going gets unsystematic: Understanding effects of frequency and age-of-acquisition on aphasic word production. Kittredge, A. K., Tullis, J., & Benjamin, A. (in preparation). Using confusions to structure future learning. INVITED TALKS Kittredge, A. K. (Oct. 2012). The saliency of event categories in physical reasoning and beyond. Talk presented at the Developmental Psychology Area Lunch Speaker Series, Psychology Department, Yale University.
Audrey K. Kittredge 5 Kittredge, A. K. (Apr. 2012). When does learning transfer? Acquiring phonotactic constraints in production through perceptual experience. Talk presented at the Cognitive Brown Bag, Psychology Department,. Kittredge, A. K., Tullis, J., & Benjamin, A. (Feb. 2010). Learning from our mistakes: Making use of confusions in foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Talk presented at the Cognitive Brown Bag, Psychology Department, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., Schwartz, M. F. & Verkuilen, J. (Nov. 2007). Chasing elusive lexical variables. Talk presented at the Language Processing Brown Bag, Beckman Institute, Champaign, IL. Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., Schwartz, M. F. & Verkuilen, J. (Aug. 2007). Where is the effect of frequency (and age-of-acquisition) in lexical access? Insights from aphasic picture naming errors. Talk presented at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA. Kittredge, A. K. (Aug. 2007). Hierarchical linear modeling: An introduction. Talk presented at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA. Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (Sep. 2006). How we end up with bicycles, or Aphasic picture-naming errors reveal the influence of lexical variables on production stages. Talk presented at the Cognitive Brown Bag, Psychology Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Kittredge, A.K., Klahr, D., & Fisher, A. V. (Oct. 2013). Show and tell: the effect of instruction on discovery. Paper presented as part of the symposium The role of pedagogy in learning from exploration (organized and chaired by A. Kittredge) at the Biannual meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN. Kittredge, A.K., Baillargeon, R., & Fisher, C. (Oct. 2013). Thirteen-month-olds map novel labels to event categories. Poster presented at the Biannual meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN. Kittredge, A. K., & Dell, G. S. (July 2012). Immediate transfer of learning from speech perception to speech production. Poster presented at the 2012 International Workshop on Language Production, New York, NY.
Audrey K. Kittredge 6 Kittredge, A. K., & Baillargeon, R. (June 2012). Infants see past perceptual differences to detect a change in event category. Paper presented as part of the symposium New lines of research on event categories: Event representation and processing in infancy and beyond (chaired and organized by Audrey Kittredge) at the 2012 International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN. Kittredge, A. K., & Baillargeon, R. (June 2012). From occlusion to burying: Carryover effects with unfamiliar events in young infants. Poster presented at the 2012 International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN. Kittredge, A. K., & Baillargeon, R. (Apr. 2011). Do infants attend to object shape in a novel physical event? Poster presented at the 2011 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada. Nozari, N., Kittredge, A., & Dell, G. (Jul. 2009). A computational case-series approach to frequency effects in aphasic word production. Talk presented by N. Nozari at the 47 th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Boston, MA. Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (Jul. 2008). Simulating aphasia: Effects of frequency and age-of acquisition on naming to a tempo. Poster presented at the 5 th International Workshop on Language Production, Annapolis, MD. Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (June 2008). When crossing a rift, every word counts. Talk presented at the 3 rd International Conference on Cognitive Science, Moscow, Russia. Kittredge, A. K., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (Aug. 2006). Aphasic picture-naming errors reveal the influence of lexical variables on production stages. Poster presented at the 3 rd International Workshop on Language Production, Chicago, IL. TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE Fall 2013 present Fall 2013 present Fall 2013 present Ramya Chinta, undergraduate research assistant Sophia Greene, undergraduate research assistant Gabriel Shoglow-Rubenstein, undergraduate research assistant
Audrey K. Kittredge 7 Fall 2013 present Fall 2013 present E. June Walitzer, undergraduate research assistant Supervisor Manon Sohn, part-time research assistant Summer 2013-present Supervisor and mentor Helen Chao, undergraduate part-time research assistant Summer 2013 Soyeon Hwang, undergraduate research assistant Fall 2011-Spring 12 Tessa McGirk, undergraduate research assistant Fall 2011-Spring 12 Haley Wright, undergraduate research assistant Spring 2011 Spring 2011 Summer 2010 Spring 2008 Spring 2008 Corrine Aufmann, undergraduate research assistant Ranya Hasan, undergraduate research assistant Instructor Cognitive Psychology Teaching Assistant Cognitive Psychology (instructor: Brian Ross) Guest Lecture Language comprehension Cognitive Psychology (instructor: Brian Ross)
Audrey K. Kittredge 8 Spring 2008 Spring 2008 Fall 2007 Fall 2007 Summer 2005 Tim Olsen, undergraduate research assistant Caroline Ackerman, undergraduate research assistant Teaching Assistant and Discussion Section Leader Introduction to Experimental Psychology (instructor: Daniel Simons) Guest Lecture Language production Introduction to Experimental Psychology (instructor: Daniel Simons) Volunteer Teaching Assistant English language classes (instructor: Silvia Calderon) Caritas High School, Santa Cruz, Bolivia 2001-2002 Tutor, writing and Spanish language Tutoring and Writing Center, Simon s Rock College of Bard OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2013 present Postdoctoral professional development series coordinator Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (NSF-funded) 2010 2012 President and founder Students of Psychology Ally for Riveting Colloquia (SPARC) summer 2008 Research intern Paul Taylor, supervisor Traveling Science Shows Franklin Institute Science Museum 2007 - present Ad-hoc reviewer Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Science, Developmental Psychology
Audrey K. Kittredge 9 2004-2005 Full-time research assistant and liaison, VA Hospital Aphasia Research Center Sheila Blumstein, supervisor Brown University 2003-2004 Undergraduate research assistant Sheila Blumstein, supervisor Brown University summer 2003 summer 2002 Conference assistant for Workshop on Direct Compositionality Pauline Jacobson, supervisor Brown University Research assistant Elizabeth Spelke and Eugenia Steingold, supervisors Harvard University PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Association for Educational Research Cognitive Development Society International Society on Infant Studies Society for Research in Child Development OUTREACH spring 2009 spring 2009 spring 2008 Exhibit creator/presenter Beckman Institute Open House Champaign, IL Volunteer classroom assistant Washington Early Childhood School Exhibit creator/presenter Brain Awareness Day Neuroscience Program COMMUNITY SERVICE 2006-2007 President Community of Urbana-Champaign Cooperative Housing
Audrey K. Kittredge 10 2005-2008 Board member Community of Urbana-Champaign Cooperative Housing COMPUTER SKILLS BLISS and Praat speech editing software ChronoViz video annotation software E-prime subject-testing software Matlab programming language Statistical analysis software (SPSS, HLM6, R, SAS, STATA) LANGUAGE SKILLS English (native) Russian (near-native fluency) French (very good fluency) Spanish (moderate fluency) Latin (some knowledge) REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST