Director

Stanka A. Fitneva, Ph. D. Cornell University

Dr. Fitneva is on sabbatical during 2011-2012. Please email her is you are interested in becoming a graduate student, an honours students, or a volunteer in her lab starting in the summer / fall of 2012.


Research Assistants

Martha Palm-Leis, 4th year Psychology major, but started in linguistics. Not surprisingly, Martha is looking into SLP programs.

Jennifer Manzon, 4th year Psychology major, applying to occupational therapy programs this fall

Daniel Warner, 4th year Psychology major. Our code warrior!

Kathleen Xu, 3rd year Psychology major.

Justine Fehr, 3rd year Psychology major.

Carolyn Rotenberg, 2nd year Life Science major. Have you heard of the OHS study? Ask Carolyn!

Jocelyn Ma, 2nd year Life Sceince major.

Andrea Pang, 4th year Psychology major.

Daniel Boyle, 4th year Linguistics major.


(some) Lab Alumni

Kristen Dunfield, MA, 2006. Deciding who to ask: Informants' past accuracy and children's information seeking behavior. Kristen won a CPA award for her master's thesis.

Rana Pishva, MA, 2010. Rana examined the influence of perceived helpfulness and knowledgeability on children's information seeking. She is pursuing her PhD in Kate Harkness's lab.

Erin White, honours student 2004-2005, now graduate student at McGill

Gabrielle Cole, independent studies on bilingualism 2005, then worked for Planned Parenthood in New Delhi. Now applying to MSW programs.

Courtney Fitzgerald, 2003 - 2006, a teacher!

Bronwen Fullerton, honours student 2005-2006, graduate student in SLP at the University of Toronto

Elizabeth Pile, did it all 2004-2007, graduate student in SLP at the University of Toronto

Scott Ross, honours student 2006-2007, travelling...

Ashley Frabmach, independent studies 2008, ... still aspiring to be an audiologist?

Amanda Timmers, a volunteer 2007 - 2008. Amanda is a clinical graduate student at Queen's (still helps us with recording stimuli!).

Kristin Hadfield, honours student 2008-2009, the day after submitting her thesis Kristin flew to China, now in graduate school in Trinity College, Ireland

Antonia Dalgantcheva, independent studies 2009, studied children's use of questions, now in graduate school in Simon Fraser (child psychology).

Laurel Dault, honours student 2009-2010, a graduate student at Queen's.

Arielle Mida, honours student 2009-2010, now pursueing a teaching degree at OISE.

Justin Goddrad, honours student 2009-2010, now applying to graduate programs in counselling psychology.

Nietzsche Lam, a volunteer 2007-2010, currently a grad student at the MPI, Nijmegen, focusing on the neural bases of language.

Amy Wainer, honours student 2010 - 2011, a graduate student in SLP.

Jaime Leung, a volunteer 2008-2011, applying to grad school.

Ena Vukatana, a volunteer and independent studies student 2008-2011, pursuing psychology graduate studies at Calgary.




Fall 2005




Our Japanese team: summer 2005








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