
Overview
overview
- Dr. Shannon Pruden is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida International University and is director of the Cognitive and Language Development Lab. Under the mentorship of Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, Dr. Pruden received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from Temple University in 2007, where she conducted research at the Temple Infant Lab. After completing her graduate studies, she was a postdoctoral scholar for the Spatial Intelligence Learning Center at the University of Chicago collaborating with Dr. Susan C. Levine.
research interests
- Dr. Pruden’s primary research interests lie at the intersection between developmental psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, and education. Employing a variety of methodologies (i.e., experimental and naturalistic; cross-sectional and longitudinal) and age groups (i.e., infants, preschoolers and school-aged children), her research focuses on the development of early language abilities with an emphasis on the growth of children’s spatial language and spatial cognition. More specifically, Dr. Pruden has been examining which factors influence children’s early language development, including the role of cognitive factors (i.e., early conceptual knowledge), biological factors (i.e., child gender), and environmental factors (i.e., socioeconomic status and parent language input).
Scholarly & Creative Works
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Article
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2022Contributions of executive function to spatial thinking in young childrenFull Text via DOI: 10.1002/icd.2317 Web of Science: 000786691100001
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2020Spatial anxiety mediates the sex difference in adult mental rotation test performanceFull Text via DOI: 10.1186/s41235-020-00231-8 Web of Science: 000552202700001
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2020Childhood wayfinding experience explains sex and individual differences in adult wayfinding strategy and anxietyFull Text via DOI: 10.1186/s41235-020-00220-x Web of Science: 000520379800001
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2019Brain activity links performance in science reasoning with conceptual approachFull Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41539-019-0059-8 Web of Science: 000609469900001
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2019Sex differences in brain correlates of STEM anxietyFull Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41539-019-0058-9 Web of Science: 000609468600001
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2019Intersensory redundancy promotes infant detection of prosody in infant-directed speechFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.02.008 Web of Science: 000466259000019
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2019No evidence for a bilingual executive function advantage in the nationally representative ABCD studyFull Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0609-3 Web of Science: 000474839900015
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2019Strategy Selection Versus Flexibility: Using Eye-Trackers to Investigate Strategy Use During Mental RotationFull Text via DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000574 Web of Science: 000456787500005
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2018Sex Differences in Gains Among Hispanic Pre-kindergartners' Mental Rotation SkillsFull Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02563 Web of Science: 000453384000001
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2017Parents' Spatial Language Mediates a Sex Difference in Preschoolers' Spatial-Language UseFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/0956797617711968 Web of Science: 000414656900004
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2016Categorization of dynamic realistic motion events: Infants form categories of path before mannerFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.07.002 Web of Science: 000386319800005
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2016Prelinguistic foundations of verb learning: Infants discriminate and categorize dynamic human actionsFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.01.004 Web of Science: 000383941600008
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2015Language Production in Children With and At Risk for Delay: Mediating Role of Parenting SkillsFull Text via DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2014.900718 Web of Science: 000359534900010
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2013Explaining sex differences in mental rotation: role of spatial activity experienceFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10339-013-0542-8 Web of Science: 000318277500012
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2013Infant Categorization of Path Relations During Dynamic EventsFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01843.x Web of Science: 000314112000024
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2013Preverbal Infants' Attention to Manner and Path: Foundations for Learning Relational TermsFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12030 Web of Science: 000314112000018
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2012Find Your Manners: How Do Infants Detect the Invariant Manner of Motion in Dynamic Events?Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01737.x Web of Science: 000303441500018
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2011Children's spatial thinking: does talk about the spatial world matter?Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01088.x Web of Science: 000296968600015
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2006The birth of words: Ten-month-olds learn words through perceptual salienceFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00869.x Web of Science: 000236176800002
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Book Chapter
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2020Movement, Space, and the Development of Spatial Thinking. 1-15.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/9781119171492.wecad029
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2018
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2016The use of eye-tracking in spatial thinking research. 239-260.Full Text via DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1005-5.ch012
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2010A World of Relations: Relational WordsFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195311129.003.0012
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Book Review
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2006Early category and concept development: Making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion. Ed. 19.Web of Science: 000235150300008
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Conference
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2015Variations in parents' spatial language predict children's spatial skill. S38-S39.Web of Science: 000368472000090
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2010The Role of Parent Gesture in Children's Spatial Language Development. 70-77.Web of Science: 000286287500007
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2009The relation between spatial language and spatial thinking. S134-S134.Web of Science: 000271744900019
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2008Foundations of verb learning: Comparison helps infants abstract event components. 402-+.Web of Science: 000255943200034
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2006Foundations of verb learning: Labels promote action category formation. 476-488.Web of Science: 000237758800042
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2004Foundations for verb learning: Infants detect and categorize 'paths' and 'manners'. 515-515.Web of Science: 000226118004660
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2004Foundations of verb learning: Infants categorize path and manner in motion events. 461-472.Web of Science: 000223229800038
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Other Scholarly Work
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2019No evidence for a bilingual executive function advantage in the ABCD study (vol 3, pg 692, 2019). 1124-1124.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0756-6 Web of Science: 000489637200046
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2019No evidence for a bilingual executive function advantage in the nationally representative ABCD study (vol 3, pg 692, 2019). 999-999.Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0709-0 Web of Science: 000485813100019
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2019Brain activity links performance in science reasoning with conceptual approachFull Text via DOI: 10.1101/526574
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2013Do storybooks really break children's gender stereotypes?Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00986 Web of Science: 000331559100001
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2001Social attention need not equal social intention: From attention to intention in early word learning. 1108-+.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X01270137 Web of Science: 000178936100042
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Preprint
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2021Contributions of Executive Function to Spatial Thinking in Preschool ChildrenFull Text via DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/dcjx5
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2021Individual Differences in Young Children’s Spatial Ability: A Systematic ReviewFull Text via DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5mc2y
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2021Intelligence and academic performance: Is it all in your head?Full Text via DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.23.427928
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Review
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2015A new biomarker to examine the role of hippocampal function in the development of spatial reorientation in children: a reviewFull Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00490 Web of Science: 000354470500001
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Research
principal investigator on
- Individual Differences in the Development of Spatial Skills: Role of Hippocampal Function and Structure awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2019 - 2023
- Child spatial ability: What role do parents play? awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2021 - 2023
- Understanding the Home Spatial Environment awarded by Society for Research Child Development 2020 - 2021
- TEAM UP for Kids: Teaching Educators to Advance Math/Science in Underserved and Underrepresented Populations awarded by Ware Foundation 2012 - 2015
co-principal investigator on
- Exploring the Neural Mechanisms of Physics Learning awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2018
subproject principal investigator on
- Graduate Research Fellowship Program awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2021
- Graduate Research Fellowship Program awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2016
investigator on
Contact
full name
- Shannon Dick
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4589-6854 (confirmed)