RESEARCH INTERESTS

Memory across the life span, Infant categorization of static and dynamic events, Inductive-generalization processes, Language acquisition (English, Korean, Japanese)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Society

International Society for Infant Studies

Society for Research in Child Development

Cognitive Development Society

 

RESEARCH GRANTS

Co-Investigator: National Science Foundation Research Grants: Early conceptual development, funding received for 1996-1997.

Co-Investigator: National Science Foundation Research Grants: Early conceptual development, funding received for 1997-1998.

Investigator: National Science Foundation Research Grants: POWRE. Utilizing new technology to investigate cognitive development, funding received for 1999-2001.

Investigator: PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.  The development of inductive generalization in infants and young children, funding received for 1999-2000.

Co-investigator: National Science Foundation Research Grants, Undergraduate Education CCLI.  Teaching with behavioral examples and DVD technology in undergraduate developmental psychology, funding received for 2000-2002.

Investigator: PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.  Research on infant cognition: Participants needed, funding received for 2002-2003.

Investigator:  National Science Foundation Research Grants: The acquisition of concepts, categories and language by infants and young children, in review.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Rebotier, T., McDonough, L. & Kirsh, D. (in press).  Image-dependent interaction of imagery and vision.  American Journal of Psychology.

McDonough, L., Choi, S. & Mandler, J.M. (in press).  Spatial categorization: Flexible infants, Lexical adults. Cognitive Psychology.

McDonough, L. (2002). Early concepts and early language acquisition: What does similarity have to do with either?  In Stein, N.L., Bauer, P.J., & Rabinowitz, M. (Eds.) Representation, Memory and Development: Essays in honor of Jean Mandler.  (pp. 115-143) Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

McDonough, L. (2002). Basic level nouns: First learned but misunderstood.  Journal of Child Language, 29, 357-378.

McDonough, L. (2001).  Infants reach to location A without practice or training.  Commentary on “The dynamics of embodiment: A field theory of infant perseverative reaching” by Scheier, C., Smith, L.B., & Thelen, E. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 88.

Mandler, J.M. & McDonough, L. (2000) Advancing downward to the basic level: Inductive generalization  in infants and young children. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1(4), 379-403.

Choi, S., McDonough, L., Bowerman, M. & Mandler, J. (1999). Comprehension of spatial terms in English and Korean.  Cognitive Development, 14, 241-268.

McDonough, L. (1999). Early declarative memory for location.  British Journal of Developmental Psychology17, 381-402.

Mandler, J.M., and McDonough, L. (1998). Inductive inference in infancy.Cognitive Psychology, 37, 60-96.

Mandler, J.M. & McDonough, L. (1998).  On developing a knowledge base in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1274-1288.

McDonough, L, & Mandler, J.M. (1998).  Inductive generalization in 9- and 11-month-olds. Developmental Science, 1, 227-232.

McDonough, L., Choi, S., Bowerman, M., & Mandler, J.M. (1998).  The use of preferential looking as a measure of semantic development. In E.L. Bavin and D. Burnham, Advances in Infancy Research. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, 336-354.

Goodman, J., McDonough, L., & Brown, N. (1998).  Learning object names: The role of semantic context and memory in the acquisition of novel words. Child Development, 69, 1330-1344.

McDonough, L., Stahmer, A., Thompson. S. & Schreibman, L. (1997).  Deficits, delays and distractions: An evaluation of symbolic play and memory in children with autism. Development and Psychopathology, 9, 17-41.

Mandler, J.M., and McDonough, L. (1996).  Drinking and driving don't mix: Inductive generalizations in one-year-olds.  Cognition, 59, 307-335.

McDonough, L., Mandler, J.M.,  McKee, R. & Squire, L.  (1995). The deferred imitation task as a nonverbal measure of declarative memory. Proceedings  of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 92, 7580-7584.

Mandler, J. M. & McDonough, L.  (1995).  Long-term recall of event sequences in infancy. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,  59, 457-474.

Mandler, J.M., and McDonough, L. (1995).  Nonverbal recall. In N.L. Stein, P.O. Ornstein, B. Tversky, and C. Brainerd (Eds.) Memory for Everyday  and Emotional Events.  Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

McDonough, L. and Mandler, J. M. (1994).  Very long-term recall in infants: Infantile amnesia reconsidered.  Memory, 2 (4), 339-352.

Mandler, J.M., and McDonough, L. (1993).  Concept formation in infancy.  Cognitive Development, Vol. 8, No. 3, 291-318.

Mandler, J.M., Bauer, P., and McDonough, L. (1991).  Separating the sheep from the goats: Differentiating global categories.  Cognitive Psychology, 23, 263-298.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

University of California, Irvine (1995).

The Centennial of Jean Piaget's birth, Geneva, Switzerland (1996).

University of Girona, Spain (1996).

Workshop on Preferential Looking Measures, Melbourne, Australia (1997).

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (1997).

Workshop on the Foundations of Human Knowledge Acquisition, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany (2001).

Yale, Developmental Research Group, (2001).

University of Connecticut, Storrs, Department of Psychology (2001).

Workshop on Infant Action Understanding, Max Planck Institute and the University of Munich (2002).

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Developmental Research Group (2002).

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Developmental Research Group (2002).

 

 

IN PREPARATION

McDonough, L Objects as symbols and/or actions as symbols: The developmental of early conceptual thought. Book chapter.

Goodman, J. & McDonough, L.  Toddlers use semantic context to learn new verbs.

McDonough, L & Kirsh, D. Memory loss or strategy change?  An evaluation of memory loss accompanying aging in healthy adults.

Misiurski, C. & McDonough, L. Inferences made by preschoolers and adults of scripted events.

McDonough, L. & Fuse, A. Acquisition of Japanese spatial terms.

IN PROGRESS

McDonough, L., Mandler, J.M. & Marsh, R.  The questionable role of similarity and language in inductive inferences by 14-month-olds.

McDonough, L. & Kranjec, A. The role of motion and form in infants’ categorization of animals and vehicles.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

Bauer, P.J., McDonough, L. & Mandler, J.M. The role of contrast in basic- and superordinate-level categorization of natural objects.  Poster presented to the International Conference on Infant Studies, Washington, D.C., 1988.

McDonough, L. and Mandler, J.M. Immediate and deferred imitation with 11-month-olds: A comparison between familiar and novel actions.  Poster presented to the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, 1989.

McDonough, L. and Mandler, J.M. Very long-term recall in two-year-olds.  Poster presented to the International Conference on Infant Studies, Montreal, 1990.

McDonough, L. Infant recall of familiar actions with placeholder objects. Poster presented to the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, 1991.

McDonough, L. and Mandler, J. M. Differentiation of globally-defined categories in 9- and 11-month-olds.  Poster presented to the Third Annual convention of the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C., 1991.

McDonough, L. and Mandler, J. M. Infant differentiation of globally-defined categories.  Poster presented to the International Conference on Infant Studies, Miami, 1992.

McDonough, L.  Infant imitation and recall of familiar and novel actions.  Poster presented to the Fourth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, San Diego, 1992.

McDonough, L. & Goodman, J.   Toddlers' use linguistic context to learn new words.  Poster presented to the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, 1993.

McDonough, L. & Mandler, J.M.   What infants know about animals and vehicles. Poster presented to the International Society for Infant Studies, Paris, 1994.

McDonough, L., Stahmer, A. & Schreibman, L.  Nonverbal recall in low-functioning children with autism. Poster presented to the Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, London, 1994.

McDonough, L., Mandler, J.M., & Squire, L.R. The deferred imitation task as a measure of declarative memory.  Poster presented to the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, 1995.

McDonough, L. & Goodman, J. Toddlers use semantic context to learn new verbs.  Poster presented to the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, 1995.

McDonough, L. Overextension in the production and comprehension of basic-level nouns in two-year-olds.  Poster presented to the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington D.C., 1997.

McDonough, L. & Mandler, J.M.  Category boundaries and inductive inference in infancy. Poster presented to the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington D.C., 1997.

McDonough, L., Choi, S. & Bowerman, M. Infant categorization of spatial relations across widely varying contexts.  Poster presented to the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, N.M., 1999

McDonough, L. Two-year-olds' representation of familiar event sequences tested with appropriate props and placeholder objects.  Poster presented to the inaugural meeting of the Cognitive Development  Society meeting, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1999.

Mandler, J.M. & McDonough, L. Advancing downward to the basic level.  Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, November, 1999.

McDonough, L. Components of the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy. Discussant for a symposium given to the International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, UK, 2000.

Mandler, J.M. & McDonough, L. Learning about artifacts and animals in infancy. Paper presented to the International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, UK, 2000.

Marsh, R. & McDonough, L. Asymmetries in infants’ inductive generalizations.  Poster presented to the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2001. (also presented at conferences at New York University and Brooklyn College).

McDonough, L. & Marsh, R. Infants’ inductive generalization of novel words and events: Domain-specific or domain-general processes?  Talk given to the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Canada, 2002.

McDonough, L. Tapping the infant mind: A route to critical thinking.  Faculty day presentation at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, 2002.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Journal and grant reviews

National Science Foundation

Monographs of the Society for Research in child Development (consulting editor, 2000)

Cognitive Psychology

Development and Psychopathology

Child Development

Cognitive Development

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Developmental Science

Social Development

Infancy

Departmental committees (current)

Graduate admission committee (Master’s program)

Appointments committee

Hiring committee

Colloquia organizer

Library Representative

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