Name:   Janellen Huttenlocher

Home Address:   5600 South Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois  60637

Business Address: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois  60637

Date and Place of Birth: February 17, 1932; Buffalo, New York

Citizenship: USA

Marital Status: Married, three children
 

EDUCATION

B.A. summa cum laude, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York June 1953
M.A. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts  June 1958
Ph.D. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts  June 1960
 
 

POSITIONS HELD

Research Associate, University of Maryland Medical School.  1958-60
Instructor and Research Fellow, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.  University and Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH. 1960-62
Research Fellow in Cognitive Studies, Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University. 1962-66
Lecturer in Social Relations, Harvard University. 1964-66
Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University  1972-74; Associate Professor. 1966-72
William S. Gray Professor, Psychology (Cognition and Communication, Developmental Psychology) and the College, University of Chicago. 1974-
Chair, Committee on Developmental Psychology 1991-
 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Buffalo    1953
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Buffalo    1953
NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship    1954
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship 1960-62
NICHD Research Career Development Award 1969-74
 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

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

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Editorial board, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 1970-74
Editorial board, Cognitive Psychology 1972-76
Behavioral Development Study Section, National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health 1971-74
Editorial board, Psychological Review 1982-87
National Science Foundation Panel, Memory and Cognition 1987-90
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mandler, G., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1956).  The relationship between associative frequency, associative ability, and paired-associate learning.  American Journal of Psychology, 69, 424-428.

Westcott, M., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1961).  Cardiac conditioning:  The effects and implications of controlled and uncontrolled respiration.  Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 353-359.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1962).  Effects of manipulation of attributes on efficiency of concept formation.  Psychological Reports, 10, 503-509.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1962).Some effects of negative instances on the formation of simple concepts.  Psychological Reports, 11, 35-42.  Also included in Anderson and Ausubel (Eds.), Readings in the psychology of cognition.  New York:  Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, Inc., 1965.

Glanzer, M., Huttenlocher, J., & Clark, W.  (1963).  Systematic operations in solving concept problems.  Psychological Monographs, 77(1), 1-29.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1964).  Children's language:  Word-phrase relationship.  Science, 143:3063, 264-265.  Also included in Bar-Adon and Leopold (Eds.), Child Language--A book of readings.  Englewood Cliffs:  Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1964).  Development of formal reasoning in concept formation problems.  Child Development, 35, 1233-1242.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1965).  Children's intellectual development.  Review of Educational Research, 35, 114-121.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1967).  Discrimination of figure orientation:  Effects of relative position.  Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 63, 359-361.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1967).  How certain formal reasoning problems are solved.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 6, 802-808.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1967).  Children's ability to order and orient objects.  Child Development, 38, 1169-1176.
Huttenlocher, J., & Strauss, S.  (1968).  Comprehension and a statement's relation to the situation it describes.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 7, 300-304.

Huttenlocher, J., Eisenberg, K., & Strauss, S.  (1968).  Comprehension:  Relation between perceived actor and logical subject.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 7, 527-530.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1968).  Constructing spatial images:  A strategy in reasoning. Psychological Review, 75, 550-560.  Also included in Johnson-Laird & Wason (Eds.), Thinking:  Readings in cognitive science.  Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Huttenlocher, J., Higgins, E., Milligan, C., & Kaufmann, B.  (1970).  The mystery of the negative equative construction.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 9, 334-341.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1970).  Perceptual and cognitive development in early childhood.  In J. Davitz & S. Ball (Eds.), Advanced educational psychology.  New York:  McGraw-Hill.

 Huttenlocher, J., & Weiner, S.  (1971).  Comprehension of instructions in varying contexts.  Cognitive Psychology, 2, 369-385.

Huttenlocher, J., & Higgins, E.  (1971).  Adjectives, comparatives, and syllogisms.  Psychological Review, 78, 487-504.

Huttenlocher, J., & Higgins, E.  (1972).  On reasoning, congruence, and other matters.  Psychological Review, 79, 420-427.

Huttenlocher, J., & Presson, C.  (1973).  Mental rotation and the perspective problem.  Cognitive Psychology, 4, 277-299.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1973).  Understanding sentences (Review of Wason and Johnson-Laird, Psychology of reasoning).  Science, 180:4086, 596-598.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1973).  Language and thought.  In G. Miller (Ed.), Language and communication.  New York:  Basic Books.

Huttenlocher, P., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1973).  A study of children with hyperlexia.  Neurology, 23(10), 1107-1116.
Huttenlocher, J.  (1974).  The origins of language comprehension.  In R. Solso (Ed.), Theories of cognitive psychology.  New York:  Halsted Press, Winston-Wiley.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1976).  Language and intelligence.  In L. Resnick (Ed.), New approaches to intelligence.  Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Huttenlocher, J., & Burke, D.  (1976).  Why does memory span increase with age?  Cognitive Psychology, 8, 1-31.

Huttenlocher, J., & Newcombe, N.  (1976).  Semantic effects in ordered recall.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 14, 387-399.

Huttenlocher, J., & Higgins, E.  (1978).  Issues in the study of symbolic development.  In W. A. Collins (Ed.), Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology (Vol. 11).  Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Huttenlocher, J., & Lui, F.  (1979).  The semantic organization of some simple nouns and verbs.  Journal of Verbal of Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 141-162.

Huttenlocher, J., & Presson, C.  (1979).  The coding and transformation of spatial information.  Cognitive Psychology, 11, 375-394.

Huttenlocher, J., & Kubicek, L.  (1983).  The source of relatedness effects on naming latency.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 9(3), 486-496.

Huttenlocher, J., Smiley, P., & Ratner, H.  (1983).  What do word meanings reveal about conceptual development?  In T. Wannamacher & W. Seiler (Eds.), The development of word meanings and concepts.  Springer.

Huttenlocher, J., Smiley, P., & Charney, R.  (1983).  The emergence of action categories in the child:  Evidence from verb meanings.  Psychological Review, 90, 72-93.

Huttenlocher, P., &  Huttenlocher, J.  (1983).  Specific syndromes of cognitive disorder.  In A. Rudolph (Ed.), Pediatrics.  Appleton-Century Crafts.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1984).  Word perception and word production in children.  In D. Bouwhuis & H. Bouma (Eds.),  Attention and performance, Vol. X:  Control of Language Processes.  Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum.

Huttenlocher, J., & Newcombe, N.  (1984).  The child's representation of information about location.  In C. Sophian (Ed.), The origins of cognitive skills, The Carnegie Symposium.  Lawrence Erlbaum.

Huttenlocher, J., & Goodman, J.  (1987).  The time to identify spoken words.  In A. Allport, D. MacKay, W. Prinz, & E. Scheerer (Eds.), Language Perception and Production.  Academic Press.

Huttenlocher, J., & Smyth, T.  (1987).  The categorization of events in infancy.  In L. Cohen & P. Salapatek (Eds.), Handbook of infant perception.  Academic Press.
Huttenlocher, J., & Smiley, P.  (1987).  Early word meanings:  The case of object names.  Cognitive Psychology, 19, 63-89.
Huttenlocher, J., Hedges, L., & Prohaska, V.  (1988).  Hierarchical organization in ordered domains:  Estimating the dates of events.  Psychological Review, 95, 471-484.

Goodman, J., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1988).  Do we know how people identify spoken words?  Journal of Memory and Language, 27, 684-698.

Smiley, P., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1989).  Young children's acquisition of emotion concepts.  In S. Saarni & P. Harris (Eds.), Children's understanding of emotions.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Huttenlocher, J., & Smiley, P.  (1990).  Emerging notions of persons.  In N. Stein, B. Leventhal, & T. Trabasso (Eds.), Biological and psychological approaches to emotion.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Huttenlocher, J., and Levine, S.  (1990).  Primary Test of Cognitive Skills.  California Test Bureau:  MacMillan-McGraw-Hill.

Huttenlocher, P., Levine, S. C.,  Huttenlocher, J., & Gates, J.  (1990).  Discrimination of normal and at risk preschool children on the basis of neurological tests.  Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology; 32, 394-402.

Huttenlocher, J., Hedges, L., & Bradburn, N. (1990).  Reports of elapsed time:  Bounding and rounding processes in estimation.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, 196-213.

Huttenlocher, J., Haight, W., Bryk, A., Seltzer, M., & Lyons, T.  (1991).  Early vocabulary growth:  Relation to language input and gender.  Developmental Psychology, 27, 236-248.

Huttenlocher, J., Hedges, L., & Duncan, S.  (1991).  Categories and particulars:  Prototype effects in estimating spatial location.  Psychological Review, 98,  352-376.

Huttenlocher, J., Hedges, L.V., & Prohaska, V.  (1992).  Memory for day of the week:  A 5 + 2 day cycle.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General, 121, 313-325.

Levine, S. C., Jordan, N., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1992).  Development of calculation abilities in young children.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 53 (1), 72-103.

Newcombe, N., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1992).  Children’s early ability to solve perspective taking problems.  Developmental Psychology, 28, 654-664.

Jordan, N. C., Huttenlocher, J., and Levine, S. C. (1992).  Differential calculation abilities in young children from middle- and low-income families.  Developmental Psychology, 28, 644-653.

Huttenlocher, J., & Hedges, L. V. (1993).  Reconstructing the past:  Category effects in estimation.  In D. Medin (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation.  Orlando, FL:  Academic Press.

Jordan, N. C., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J. (1993).  Differential calculation abilities in young children at risk:  Linking research with assessment and intervention.  In N. C. Jordan & J. Goldsmith-Phillips (Eds.),  Learning Disabilities:  New Directions for Assessment and Intervention.  Boston:  Allyn & Bacon.

Huttenlocher, J., & Hedges, L. V.  (1994).  Combining graded categories:  Membership and typicality.  Psychological Review, 101, 157-165.

Jordan, N. C., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1994).  Development of calculation abilities in middle- and low-income children after formal instruction in school.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 15 (2), 223-240.
Smiley, P., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1994).  Conceptual development and the child’s early words for events, objects and persons.  In M. Tomasello & W. Merriman (Eds.), Beyond names for things:  Young children’s acquisition of verbs.  Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Huttenlocher, J., Jordan, N., & Levine, S. (1994).  A mental model for early arithmetic.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General, 123 (3), 284-296.

Huttenlocher, J., Newcombe, N., & Sandberg, E. (1994).  The coding of spatial location in young children.  Cognitive Psychology., 27, 115-147.

Jordan, N. C., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1994).  Calculation abilities in young children with different patterns of cognitive functioning.  Journal of Learning Disabilities, 28, 53-64.

Engebretson, P. H., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1996).  Bias in spatial location due to categorization:  Comments on Tversky and Schiano.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General, 125, 96-108.

Jordan, N. C., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1996).  Assessing calculation abilities in middle- and low- income preschool children:  Effects of response type and income level.  Learning and Individual Differences, 6 (4).

Mix, K. S., Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S. C.  (1996).  Do preschool children recognize auditory-visual numerical correspondences?  Child Development, 67, 1592-1608.

Sandberg, E., Huttenlocher, J., & Newcombe, N.  (1996).  The development of hierarchical representation of two-dimensional space.  Child Development, 67, 721-739.

Huttenlocher, J., & Prohaska, V.  (1997).  Reconstructing the times of past events.  In N. Stein. P. A. Ornstein, B. Tversky, & C. Brainerd (Eds.), Memory for everyday events.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Mix, K. S., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1997).  Numerical abstraction by infants:  Another look.  Developmental Psychology, 33, 423-428.

Friedman, W. J., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1997).  Memory for the time of "60 Minutes" stories and news events.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Newcombe, N., Huttenlocher, J., Drummey, A. B., & Wiley, J. G.  (1998).  The development of spatial location coding:  Place learning and dead reckoning in the second and third years.  Cognitive Development, 13, 185-200.

Huttenlocher, J.  (1998).  Language input and language growth.  Preventive Medicine, 27, 195-199.
Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S. C., & Vevea, J.  (1998).  Environmental effects on cognitive growth:  A time-period comparison.  Child Development, 69, 1012-1029.

Mix, K., Levine, S. C., & Huttenlocher, J.  (1999).  Early fraction ability.  Developmental Psychology.
Newcombe, N., Huttenlocher, J., Sandberg, E., & Lie, E., & Johnson, S.  (in press).  What do misestimations and asymmetries in spatial judgment indicate about spatial representation?  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory and Cognition.

Huttenlocher, J., Newcombe, N., & Vasilyeva, M.  (in press).  Spatial scaling in young children.  Psychological Science.

Crawford, L. E., Engebretson, P. H., & Huttenlocher, J.  (submitted for publication).  Perceptual and category bias in reproducing visual stimuli.

Huttenlocher, J., Hedges, L. V., & Vevea, J. L.  (submitted for publication).  Why do categories affect stimulus judgment?
 

Books

Newcombe, N., & Huttenlocher, J.  (in press).  Making space:  Taking cognitive development one domain at a time.  Cambridge:  MIT Press.
Mix, K., Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S.  (in press).  Math without words.  Oxford University Press.