Cara Cashon, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Studies

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Sciences

University Honors Teaching Fellow

Psychological Science Ph.D. applicants, I am looking to accept a new student. Deadline is Dec. 1st.  Apply here!

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Education

• Ph.D. Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004
• B.S. Psychology, The University of Iowa, 1995

Research Interests

• • Algorithmic bias in AI
  • Replicability in science (e.g., ManyBabies project)
• Face recognition
• Infant cognitive development
• Face processing, emotion perception
• Visual attention
• Physical development and cognition
• Effects of parental behaviors on infant learning and cognition
• Linguistic development
• Cognitive, perceptual, and linguistic development in infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome

Selected Publications

* denotes student author

• Yoder-Himes, D. R., *Asif, A., *Kinney, K., *Brandt, T. J., *Cecil, R., Himes, P. R., Cashon, C., Hopp, R. M. P., & Ross, E. (2022). Racial, skin tone, and sex disparities in automated proctoring software. In Frontiers in Education (p. 675). Frontiers. doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.881449
• Cashon, C.H., *Ha, O., Graf Estes, K., Saffran, J. R., & Mervis, C. B. (2016). Infants with Williams syndrome detect statistical regularities in continuous speech, Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.009
• Cashon, C. H. & *Holt, N. A. (2015). Developmental origins of the face inversion effect. In J. B. Benson (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Vol. 48 (117-150). Burlington: Academic Press.
• Cashon, C. H., *Ha, O., *Allen, C. L., & *Barna, A. C. (2013). A U-shaped relation between sitting ability and upright face processing in infants. Child Development, 84, 802-809. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12024
• Cashon, C. H., *Ha, O., *DeNicola, C. A., & Mervis, C. B. (2013). Toddlers with Williams syndrome process upright but not inverted faces holistically. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-9. doi: 10.1007/s10803-013-1804-0
• 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. (2000). Eight-month-old infants' perception of possible and impossible events. Infancy, 1, 429-446.

Courses

Graduate:

• PSYC 610: Advanced Statistics I
• PSYC 609: Infant Cognition and Perception

Undergraduate:

• HON 101: Honors Windows on the World (formerly Honors Modes of Inquiry)
• PSYC 414/HON 446/HON 456: Honors-Psychology of Social Media-WR
• PSYC 435: Seminar in Infancy-WR