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February 2012
Dr. Michel speaks to Fox 8 about our work on handedness. Watch the news segment here. Lab members also had two abstracts accepted for the International Conference on Infant Studies. The meeting will be held in June in Minneapolis. December 2011 Congratulations to our graduating students! Jason Rouse (Bachelors in Psychology) Alireza Zibaie (Bachelors in Psychology) Congratulations to Cam and Ola for successfully proposing their Masters projects! November 2011 Lab members presented six research posters at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology conference in Washington, D.C. from November 9 - 12, 2011. Irina Babik: "The development of handedness in role-differentiated bimanual manipulation in relation to handedness for apprehension in 11 to 14 month old infants". Download the reprint here. Julie Campbell: "Hand-use preferences for apprehending objects predict hand-use preferences for manipulating objects". Download the reprint here. Emily Marcinowski: "A hand-use preference predicts sucessful building in infants 10-14 months". Download the reprint here. Eliza Nelson: "Hand use preference and the emergence of problem-solving ability: A longitudinal study from 6 to 24 months". Download the reprint here. Camilla Sanders: "Infant handedness predicts preschool handedness and design copying skills". Download the reprint here. Olha Taras: "The role of a stable hand-use preference in development of tool use in infants 10 to 14 months of age". Download the reprint here. At the meeting, Dr. Nelson was presented with the 2011 Hennessy-Smotherman-Wiley Best Student Paper Award. Congratulations, Eliza! We also congratulate Emily on successfully proposing her Masters thesis! August 2011 Great news! The lab will be presenting six research posters at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology conference in November. Dr. Michel will also be giving a platform presentation at the meeting. Read more about the conference here. May 2011 Congratulations to our graduating students! Amy Albright (Bachelors in Psychology) Jeremy Bailoo (Doctorate in Developmental Psychology) Sabrina Epps (Bachelors in Psychology) Jessica Hughes (Bachelors in Mathematics with a concentration in Statistics) Carolyn Pence (Bachelors in Psychology) We are also excited that our Project Coordinatior, Julie Campbell, was accepted into the Developmental Psychology Graduate Program here at UNCG! April 2011 Two of our students have won UNCG Student Excellence awards for their research projects! (1st Place) Sabrina Epps: "Effects of source information on children's explicit fear beliefs and behavioral avoidance" (2nd Place) Amy Albright: "The effects of personality on juror sentencing decisions" Read more about undergraduate research opportunities at UNCG here. Also, Irina Babik traveled to Montreal and presented a research poster at the Society for Research on Child Development conference. Download the reprint here. Read more about the conference here. January 2011 Emily Marcinowski is joining the lab as a Masters student. Welcome Emily! December 2010 Publication alert! Ferre, C.L., Babik, I.R., & Michel, G.F. (2010). Development of infant prehension handedness: A longitudinal analysis during the 6- to 14-month age period. Infant Behavior Development, 33, 492-502. Michel, G.F. (2010). Behavioral science, engineering, and poetry revisited. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 124, 336-41. November 2010 Lab members presented three posters at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology conference in San Diego, CA on November 10-13, 2010. Irina Babik: "Assessing the developmental trajectory of infant lateralized hand-use without using age". Download the reprint here. Julie Campbell: "The relation of infant handedness to parental handedness". Download the reprint here. Eliza Nelson: "Left hand specialization for reaching in 5-month-old rhesus monkeys: Evidence from 2-D motion analysis". Download the reprint here. September 2010 Dr. Michel and Dr. Nelson were invited to speak about their research at the International Institute on Developmental Science in New York, New York on September 9-11, 2010. August 2010 Dr. Eliza Nelson is joining our lab through an NICHD postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Nelson completed her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she studied how human and monkey infants use their hands. Read more about Dr. Nelson here. Read more about the Center for Developmental Science here. May 2010 Olha Taras and Cam Sanders are joining the lab as Doctoral students. Welcome Olha and Cam! Irina Babik successfully defended her Masters thesis titled "Potential Postural Constraints on the Development of Lateralized Hand-use in Infancy". Download the reprint here. Congratulations Irina! March 2010 Publication alert! Kimmerle, M., Ferre, C.L., Kotwica, K.A., & Michel, G.F. (2010). Development of role-differentiated bimanual manipulation during the infant's first year. Developmental Psychobiology, 52(2), 168-180. Also, Irina Babik traveled to Baltimore and presented a research poster at the International Conference on Infant Studies meeting. Download the reprint here. Read more about the conference here. November 2009 Irina Babik traveled to Chicago and presented a research poster at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology conference. Download the reprint here. Read more about the conference here. January 2009 The lab was featured in the UNCG magazine article, "Getting a Better Grasp on Handedness". The goal of this magazine is to highlight the contributions of UNCG research. Download a pdf of the article here. November 2008 Claudio Ferre and Irina Babik traveled to Washington, D.C. and presented a research poster at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology conference. Download the reprint here. Read more about the conference here. July 2008 Publication alert! Kotwica, K.A., Ferre, C.L., & Michel, G.F. (2008). Relation of stable hand-use preferences to the development of skill for managing multiple objects from 7 to 13 months of age. Developmental Psychobiology, 50(5), 519-529. May 2008 Irina Babik is joining the lab as a Doctoral student. Welcome Irina! Claudio Ferre successfully defended his Masters thesis titled "Does Handedness for Prehension Predict Handedness for Role-differentiated Bimanual Manipulation During Infancy?". Download the reprint here. Congratulations Claudio! December 2007 Publication alert! Michel, G.F., & Tyler, A.N. (2007). Developing human nature: "Development to" versus "development from"? Developmental Psychobiology, 49(8), 788-799. January 2007 Publication alert! Michel, G.F., & Tyler, A.N. (2007). Can knowledge of developmental processes illuminate the evolution of parental care? Developmental Psychobiology, 49(1), 33-34. September 2006 Publication alert! Michel, G.F., Tyler, A.N., Ferre, C.L., & Sheu, C.F. (2006). The manifestation of infant hand-use preferences when reaching for objects during the seven- to thirteen-month age period. Developmental Psychobiology, 48(6), 436-443. |