Meliora 425
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627-0268
585.273.4727

CURRENT POSITION

Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

EDUCATION

University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
PhD., 2006

University of Chicago
General Honors in the College
B.S. Psychology with Departmental Honors, 2000
B.S. Mathematics, 2000
Minor area: Statistics

Kantonsschule Baden
Baden, Switzerland
Rotary International Foreign Exchange Student, 1995-6

HONORS AND AWARDS

John Dewey Prize Lectureship, 2005
Psychology Graduate Student Organization Research Award, 2004, 2005
Psychology Graduate Student Organization Travel Award, 2004
Doolittle-Harrison Travel Award, 2003
Honorable Mention - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2001
Century Fellowship for Graduate Study -University of Chicago, 2000-4
Foreign Language Acquisition Grant - University of Chicago, 1999
National Merit Scholarship - University of Chicago, 1996-2000
Dean’s List, University of Chicago, 1996-2000


PUBLICATIONS

Cook, S. W. & Goldin-Meadow, S.  (2006).  The Role of Gesture in Learning:  Do Children Use Their Hands to Change Their Minds?  Journal of Cognition and Development, 7, 211-232.

Goldin-Meadow, S. & Wagner, S.M.  (2005).  How our hands help us learn.  Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 234-241

Wagner, S. M., Nusbaum, H., & Goldin-Meadow, S.  (2004).  Probing the Mental Representation of Gesture:  Is Handwaving Spatial?  Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 395-407.

Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H., Kelly, S., & Wagner, S.  (2001).  Explaining Math:  Gesturing Lightens the Load.  Psychological Science, 12, 516-522.


MANUSCRIPTS

Cook, S. W., Mitchell, Z., Goldin-Meadow, S. (submitted).  Gesturing makes learning last.

Broaders, S., Cook, S.W., Mitchell, Z., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (under review).  Making Children Gesture Reveals Implicit Knowledge and Leads to Learning.

Cook, S. W. & Goldin-Meadow, S.  (in preparation).  Gesture and Cognitive Load: Is Perception Like Production?


INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Cook, S. W.  Speaking and gesturing: Using the hand to free the mind.  Invited talk presented at University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, April, 2006.

Cook, S. W.  Implicit knowledge in thinking and learning by hand.  Invited talk presented at University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, January, 2006.

Cook, S. W.  Thinking and learning by hand.  Invited colloquium presented at University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, January, 2006.

Cook, S. W.  Thinking and learning by hand.  Invited colloquium presented at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, January, 2006.

Wagner, S. M.  Thinking and learning by hand.  Invited colloquium presented at Northwestern University, January, 2005.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Cook, S. W., Mitchell, Z., Goldin-Meadow, S.  Gesturing makes learning last.  To be presented at Society for Research in Child Development.  Boston, MA, April, 2007

Wagner, S. M. & Goldin-Meadow, S.  Children can use their hands to change their minds. Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA, April, 2005.

Suriyakham, L. W., Wagner, S. M., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S.  An fMRI study of gesture-speech perception: Hands help brains reduce cognitive load.  Poster presented at 6th Annual Neuroscience Day, Chicago, IL. November, 2004

Wagner, S. M., Suriyakham, L. W., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S.  An fMRI study of gesture-speech perception: Hands help brains reduce cognitive load.  Poster presented at American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL, May, 2004

Wagner, S. M.  Making the learner gesture: Can facilitating embodiment through gesture production enhance learning?  Cognitive Development Society, Park City, UT, October, 2003.

Wagner, S. M., Lourenco, S. F., Ellois, V., & Parisi, D.  Hands on Learning: How Do Children Attend to Teachers' Gesture?  Poster presented at Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL, April, 2003.

Wagner, S. M., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Nusbaum, H.  The Relationship between Gesture and Visuo-spatial Working Memory.  Gesture:  The Living Medium, Austin, TX,  June, 2002.

Wagner, S. M., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. & Kelly, S.  Cognitive Benefits of Gesturing.  Poster presented at Cognitive Development Society, Virginia Beach, VA, October, 2001.

Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H., Kelly, S., & Wagner, S.  Gesturing Helps Us Remember. ORAGE, Aix-en-Provence, France, June, 2001.

Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H., Kelly, S., & Wagner, S.  Gesturing Helps Us Remember. Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN April, 2001.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Psychological Statistics
Lecturer
University of Chicago
Fall 2005

Gesture in Cognition and Communication
John Dewey Prize Lectureship
University of Chicago
Spring 2005

Fundamentals of Statistical Reasoning
Lecturer
University of Chicago Summer Session
Summer 2003, 2004

Teaching Assistantships:
Mind - Social Sciences Undergraduate Core Course (4 quarters)
Psychological Statistics
Developmental Psychology (2 quarters)
Psychology of Language

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

Curriculum Committee, Student Representative (2000-3)
Subject Pool List Administrator (2001-3)
Prospective Students' Weekend Coordinator (2000-1)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association for Psychological Science
Society for Research in Child Development
Cognitive Development Society

AD HOC REVIEWER

Brain and Language
Cognitive Science
Developmental Science
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition