Victor G. Cicirelli, Ph.D. Michigan, 1964; Educational, Ph.D., Michigan State, 1971; Developmental

Major research interests are: (1) parent-child and sibling relationships in the aging family; (2) family care of the aged; (3) decision-making in the aging family, (4) creative problem solving and cognitive intervention in the aged; (5) death and dying.

George Hollich, Ph.D. Temple University, 1999; Developmental

Research interests include language development. This includes how infants percieve speech,  learn words and come to understand the meaning of grammar. He is the Director of the infant Language Labs and one of three professors heading the Purdue University Infant Labs.

Robert Kail, Ph.D. Michigan, 1975; Developmental

General aim of my research is to understand cognitive processes and their development.  Current projects focus on the causes and consequences of age-related change in speed of information processing.  This work is designed to evaluate a cascade model of cognitive development in which age-related increases in processing speed increase the functional capacity of working memory that enhances cognitive processing.  Other research looks at the cognitive consequences of multiple sclerosis and on information processing in children with specific language impairment. 
 

Theodore D. Wachs, Ph.D. George Peabody, 1968; Developmental, Clinical (Child)

Basic research interests lie in the areas of early environmental influences, infant temperament and nutrition-development relations. Specific interests are: (1) measurement and impact of environmental noise-confusion (environmental chaos) upon early development and parent-child relations; (2) how individual differences in temperament act to moderate the impact of environmental influences; and (3) processes underlying the relation of undernutrition and trace mineral deficits to individual developmental variablity.
 

Barbara A. Younger-Rossmann, Ph.D. Texas, 1984; Developmental

Dr. Younger-Rossmann's general research interests are in early perceptual and cognitive development. The primary focus of her research has been on the development of categorization abilities in infants. She is also interested in relationships between categorization and language. Topics under investigation include (1) developmental change in perceptually-based object categorization at the global- or basic-level, (2) infants' use of form-function correlations in categorization and the ability to infer unseen functional properties of novel category members, (3) analytic processing strategies in categorization and language.