[CogSci] UNLV's PhD program is now accepting applications for students interested in Developmental Psychology

[Melissa Troyer]

Dear Cognitive Science community,

Please see the announcement below inviting applicants for the developmental
area of study in UNLV's Psychology department starting in Fall 2024. Thank
you for considering passing this along. Please share this information with
any interested students.

Best,

Melissa Troyer

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The Psychology Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has a
Psychological & Brain Sciences PhD program and we are now accepting
applications for admission to the program's developmental area of study.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is ranked as a Research 1
Institution, which reflects very high research activity. UNLV is also
ranked within the top 10 universities in terms of student diversity.

Applications for admission are due by December 1st. Below is information
regarding the research that our developmental faculty conduct.

Dr. Erin Hannon’s research <https://unlvmusiclab.wixsite.com/website> combines
her interests in cognition, culture, child development, music and dance,
and language. She examines how an individual's culture-specific listening
experiences influence his or her perception of music, the similarities and
differences between musical and linguistic skills as they develop and
perhaps interact during infancy and childhood, how we acquire the ability
to move in time with music, and how developmental milestones in music
perception might be related to other social, emotional, cognitive, and
linguistic abilities and behaviors.



Dr. Jennifer Rennels’ research <https://rebellab.sites.unlv.edu/> focuses
on face perception/processing and development of appearance-based biases
(e.g., positive and negative evaluations based on masculinity/femininity,
attractiveness, gender, and race). She examines the cues individuals attend
to when perceiving faces, how facial appearance impacts judgments about an
individual, and how individual differences and situational factors
influence perception and processing. In related work, she investigates the
origins of biases, why biases are maintained, and the consequences of
biases. Her research primarily involves working with infants so as to
understand rudiments of face processing abilities and biases, but she also
includes older children and adults in her research to study developmental
trajectories and developmental differences in face perception and
processing.



Dr. Rachael Robnett’s research <https://robnett.faculty.unlv.edu/> addresses
the ways in which socialization, stereotypes, and social-structural factors
contour the attitudes and behaviors people display in their daily lives.
Her primary line of research provides insight into how these constructs
influence adolescents’ and emerging adults’ pursuit of careers related to
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). She is especially
interested in identifying forces that either promote or detract from
educational equity in STEM fields. Her research currently focuses on the
role of peers, self-efficacy, and authentic research involvement. Dr.
Robnett’s second line of research examines the causes and implications of
gender bias and gender-role adherence. Her work in this domain focuses on
associations between gender-traditional ideologies and individuals’
preferences within the context of romantic relationships. Across these
lines of research, Dr. Robnett utilizes quantitative methods such as
structural equation modeling as well as qualitative methods such as
thematic analysis.



Dr. Melissa Troyer’s research
<https://sites.google.com/view/melissatroyer/home> aims to uncover how
neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension are
sensitive to and shaped by individual differences in knowledge and
experience. This work investigates how differences in existing knowledge
influence how people anticipate, make sense of, and potentially learn from
language in real time. She is also interested in how such variation in
knowledge/experience combines with aging to influence language
comprehension into older adulthood. To ask these questions, she employs
EEG, specifically event-related brain potentials (ERPs), as well as an
array of behavioral methods. A key goal of this work is to better
characterize the nature of variation in processes that underlie and
accompany language comprehension and how this may change across the
lifespan with healthy aging.



For more information regarding our Ph.D. program and the application
process, please visit UNLV’s Graduate Catalog website.
<https://catalog.unlv.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=44&poid=12716>

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Melissa Troyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Development
Director, LAKE Lab <https://sites.google.com/view/melissatroyer/home>
Department of Psychology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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