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\nDr. Catharine Echols
\n<\/strong>Principal Investigator
\n<\/em>Associate Professor
\nechols@austin.utexas.edu <\/a>
\n(512)\u00a0471-4879
\nSEA 5.220<\/td>\n		Dr. Echols received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in developmental psychology. Before joining the faculty at The University of Texas, she conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University. Her research explores the acquisition of language, and its interface with cognitive and social development. A major current focus is how children use social information\u2014including gaze and other non-verbal cues, past accuracy, similarity, and knowledge of an individual\u2019s motives\u2014to evaluate the words and statements of others. A second focus, overlapping with the first, is the similarities and differences\u2014across culture, language and socio-economic status\u2014in the availability and use of linguistic and social information in language learning. An additional research focus is how general problem solving skills promote the learning of word meaning and sentence structure.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nMayra Chantal Ramirez
\n<\/b>Graduate Student
\n<\/em>mayrachantal@utexas.edu<\/a>
\nSEA 1.318D<\/td>\n		Chantal received her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Texas A&M University and her M.A. in Developmental Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin. She has been involved in research on child development since 2011 on topics ranging from pediatric psychology, language processing and development in bilingual children, as well as racial\/ethnic identity development and trust in Latinx children. Her current research focus is on parent-infant interaction and its implications for early infant language development. She intends to continue exploring language and identity development in children and, as a bilingual Latina herself, is especially inspired to continue to explore these topics in Latinx children and families of all language backgrounds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\n<\/b>Shaden Powell
\n<\/b>Graduate Student
\n<\/em>shaden.powell@utexas.edu<\/a>
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Shaden has been working as a Mental Health Therapist since graduating with her Master’s Degree in Counseling and Human Development from George Mason University in 2015. Her clinical experience influenced her research interests in understanding the relationship and impact of caregiver-child interactions on the development of children, specifically as it relates to language development. She believes in the significance of early childhood experiences on mental health and the critical need to create interventions promoting healthy development. She is excited to continue her research with Dr. Echols in the Language Development Lab and looks forward to learning, growing and positively contributing to the field of Developmental Psychology.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Shirlyn Sia
\n<\/b>Lab\u00a0Manager<\/em>
\n<\/em>shirlyn.sia@austin.utexas.edu<\/a>
\nSEA 1.226<\/td>\n		Shirlyn received her BA at the University of Texas at Austin in Psychology. Within the developmental field, she is interested in exploring the effects of bilingualism on children’s language and social development.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Current Research Assistants<\/b><\/p>\n

We are so thankful to work with so many undergraduate students! If you are interested in joining our lab, please go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Abby Winnier – Amanda Hua – Ana Sofia – Anjali Nair – Anna Sung – Annika Krishnan – Ayanna Walsh – Briana Benavides – Candace Jessup – Christopher Truong – Courtney Huynh – Fiona Lin –\u00a0 Jessica Crain – Kelsey Tom – Margaret Murphy – Rebecca Boswell – Rudy Garza – Shaunna Inkster – Tanya Owens – Vanessa Aguirre – Varsha Puliyadi<\/p>\n

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Former Doctoral Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Jane Childers<\/a> – Professor at Trinity University
\nDr. Nate Marti – Statistical Consultant at the University of Texas
\nDr. Marlena Creusere – Senior Research & Policy Analyst at the University of Texas System Administration
\nDr. Debora de Hollanda Souza<\/a> – Associate Professor at Federal University of S\u00e3o Carlos (Brazil)
\nDr. Melissa Koenig<\/a> – Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota
\nDr. R Jason Brunt<\/a> – Assistant Professor at Biola University
\nDr. Sheila Krogh-Jespersen<\/a> – Assistant Director of Developmental Mechanisms at Northwestern University
\nDr. Micah B. Goldwater<\/a> – Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney
\nDr. Andr\u00e9 L. Souza – Election Integrity Researcher at Facebook
\nDr. Bolivar Reyes-Jaquez – President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota
\nDr. Dolly Rojo<\/a> – Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Mary’s University<\/p>\n

Former Undergraduate Honors Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isaac Peterson – Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa
\nJissel Anaya – Graduate Student at the University of Texas
\nLindsay Taraban – Graduate Student at the University of Pittsburgh
\nSubhashini Madhavan – Laboratory Manager at Temple University
\nMary Cantu Garcia – International Coordinator at Northeastern University
\nJiazhou Chen – Research Specialist at The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
\nShirlyn Sia – Graduate Student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
\nAna Martinez – Graduate Student at Tufts University
\nMadelyn Schmidt – Teach for America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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