Susan Somerville

Emeritus Professor, Emeritus College

Long Bio

PhD, Australian National University, 1970

Cognitive development, language acquisition, children's drawings, and cognitive processes in children and adults

Representation of objects in photographs and drawings Short-term longitudinal study of children's acquisition of expertise

Research Interests

Cognitive Development Logical Reasoning Expertise

Publications

H Kloos, Susan Somerville. Providing impetus for conceptual change: The effect of organizing the input. Cognitive Development (2001).
K Kontak, Susan Somerville. Young children's updating and recall of impressions: Effects of informativeness and deception. Journal of Cognition and Development (2001).

Research Activity

Rikakis,Thanassis*, Akay,Metin, Bedard,Roger Lee, Benin,Mary Holland, Birchfield,David A, Brungart,Jennifer, Campana,Ellen, Campana,Ellen, Candan,Kasim Selcuk, Clark,Douglas B, He,Jiping, Homa,Donald L, Ingalls,Todd Matthew, Isaac,Gwyneira, James,Jodi H, Karam,Lina, Kelliher,Aisling G, Kelliher,Aisling G, Laubichler,Manfred Dietrich, Leanos,John Jota, Mcbeath,Michael, Nelson,Brian Carl, Panchanathan,Sethuraman, Panchanathan,Sethuraman, Presson,Clark Cortelyou, Qian,Gang, Qian,Gang, Rodriguez,Armando A, Santello,Marco, Savenye,Wilhelmina C, Somerville,Susan Clare, Spanias,Andreas Savva, Spanias,Andreas Savva, Steinmetz,Peter Nathan, Sundaram,Hari, Sundaram,Hari, Thornburg,Harvey Devoe, Thornburg,Harvey Devoe. IGERT: An Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Research and Education Initiative for Experimental Media. NSF-EHR(10/1/2005 - 9/30/2012).
Somerville,Susan Clare*. EDITOR OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT. SOC RESEARCH CHILD DEVELOPMENT(7/1/1993 - 8/31/1996).
Somerville,Susan Clare*. ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT. SOC RESEARCH CHILD DEVELOPMENT(6/23/1987 - 12/31/1989).

Presentations

Kloos, H., and Somerville, Susan C. Mass, Volume and Density: Preschoolers' Sensitivity to Logical Congruence. Society for Research in Child Development, Biennial Meeting (Apr 2003).
Khalil, S.L., and Somerville, Susan C. Young children's understanding of drawing from observation and from imagination. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Apr 2001).

Service

NSF-Science of Learning Center Proposal, Site Visitor (Member of Group of Site Visitors) (2004 - 2004)
National Science Foundation, Site Visitor, Science of Learning Center Proposal (2004)
Oxford University Press, Reviewer of Proposal for Book on Spatial Cognition (2004)