2007 Lipsitt-Duchin Lecture
Thursday October 18, 2007 4-6 PM
Solomon Hall (Room 001, downstairs)
Brown University Campus
Providence, RI
(Near Brown Street entrance to campus at 69 Waterman Street)
The Secret Life of Infants
Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Ph. D.
Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey
Carolyn Rovee-Collier received a PhD from
Brown University in 1966 and is Professor
of Psychology at Rutgers University. She has
authored more than 200 publications and is
internationally known for her research on
learning and memory in preverbal infants.
Dr. Rovee-Collier has been a pioneering
researcher in asking whether and what young
infants can learn, and how long infants can
remember what they have previously learned.
Her current research focuses on latent learning,
how new information is integrated with old, and how memory retrieval
affects future retention.
Dr. Rovee-Collier was awarded the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2003 for her work on implicit and explicit memory in infants. This is the most highly coveted and oldest major award in experimental psychology. Its former recipients constitute a veritable “who’s who in Psychology” and include five Nobel Prize winners. She also received the 2001 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development, a Distinguished Achievement Medal from the Graduate School at Brown University, a James McKeen Cattell Fellowship, a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) MERIT award, and two NIMH Research Scientist Awards. She is a 2007 William James Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Psychological Science. She has served as President of the International Society for Infant Studies and the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology.
When studying at Brown in the 1960’s, Dr. Rovee-Collier was among the earliest wave of students to conduct research at the Neonatal Sensory and Learning Laboratory established by Dr. Lewis P. Lipsitt at the Providence Lying-In Hospital (now Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island). She succeeded Dr. Lipsitt as Editor of the journal Infant Behavior and Development, and served as its editor from 1981 to 1998. She also joined Dr. Lipsitt as Co-editor of Advances in Infancy Research from 1984 to 2000.
Previous Lipsitt-Duchin Lectures
Lipsitt-Duchin 2006 [Richard Tremblay]
Lipsitt-Duchin 2005 [Jack Shonkoff]
Rhode Island Kids Count is a co-sponsor of this lecture