Susan Barrett, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator
220 Chandler Hall, 610.758.4688
seb6@lehigh.edu
Academic History
Clark University, B.A. (1981)
Brown University, M.Sc. (1983) Ph.D. (1987) Experimental Psychology
Spencer Post-doctoral Fellow
Research Interests
Perception, memory and cognitive development.
The questions we are currently addressing include: How do children and adults learn to recognize people? How do children store and retrieve information from memory? How do chronic ear infections affect speech perception?
Research Collaborations
My collaborators include Marion Cone Lapchak and Hillery Gross (at Lehigh), Bonnie Green (at East Stroudsburg University) and Alice O'Toole, Dana Roark, Melanie Spence, and Hervé Abdi (at the University of Texas at Dallas).
Teaching
Graduate courses:
Developmental Psychology (Psyc 402)
Seminar in Cognitive Development (Psyc480)
Developmental Theories and Special Populations (Psyc 446)
Undergraduate courses:
Child Development (Psyc107)
Cognitive Development (Psyc351)
Infant Development (Psyc 358)
Psychology and the Law (Psyc359)
Experimental Research Methods and Laboratory (Psyc210)
Representative Publications
Roark, D.A., Barrett, S.E., Spence, M.J., Abdi, H. and O'Toole, A.J. (2003). Psychological and neurological
perspectives on the role of facial motion in face recognition. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Reviews, 2, 15-46.
Wild, H.H., Barrett, S.E., Spence, M.J., O'Toole, A.J, Cheng, Y.D., and Brooke, J. (2000). Recognizing and
categorizing adults' and children's faces by sex in the absence of sex stereotyped cues Journal of
Experimental Child Psychology, 77, 269-291.
Barrett, S.E., Abdi, H., Murphy, G.L. and Gallagher, J.M. (1993). Theory-based correlations and their role in
children's concepts. Child Development, 64, 1595-1616.
Barrett, S.E., Abdi, H. and Sniffen, J.M. (1992). Reflecting on process and structure: The child's
understanding of cognition. In B. Burns (Ed.), Percepts, concepts and categories: The representation
and processing of information, (pp. 275-322). New York: Elsevier.
