Professor

Office: Room 357, Life Science Building
Phone: (502) 852-3844
Fax: (502) 852-8904
Email: cara.cashon at louisville dot edu

Lab location:  Life Sciences Building

Lab phone: 852-6852

Lab website: Infant Cognition Lab

Education

• Ph.D. Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004

• B.S. Psychology, The University of Iowa, 1995
  

Research Interest

• Development of infant cognition and perception
• Infant face processing
• Cognitive & linguistic development in infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities

Selected Publications

• Cohen, L. B., & Cashon, C. H. (2006). Infant Cognition. In W. Damon & R. M. Lerner (Series Eds.) & D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 2. Cognition, Perception, and Language (6th ed., pp. 214-251).  New York: Wiley.
  

• Cashon, C. H., & Cohen, L. B. (2004). Beyond U-shaped development in infants’ processing of faces. Journal of Cognition and Development (special issue on U-shaped development), 5, 59-80.
  

• Cashon, C. H., & Cohen, L. B. (2003). The construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of infant face perception. In A. Slater and O. Pascalis (Eds.), The development of face processing in infancy and early childhood (pp. 55-68). New York, NOVA Science Publishers,
  

• Cohen, L. B., & Cashon, C. H. (2003). Infant perception and cognition. In I. B. Weiner (Series Ed.) & R. M. Lerner, M. A. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry, (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of Psychology: Vol. 6. Developmental Psychology (pp. 65-89). New York: Wiley.
• Cashon, C. H., & Cohen, L. B. (2000). Eight-month-old infants' perception of possible and impossible events. Infancy, 1, 429-446.
  
  

Courses Often Taught

• Undergraduate:
• PSYC 401: Research Psychology
• PSYC 435: Seminar in Infancy-WR

• Graduate:

• PSYC 610: Advanced Statistics I
  
• PSYC 661: Advanced Developmental Psychology