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Emily Bushnell

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#1320

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#1615

Historical Rank

#769

USA Rank

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Emily Bushnell's Degrees

PhD Psychology Stanford University
Masters Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Emily W. Bushnell is an American psychologist and emeritus professor of psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Her areas of professional interest include child development, infant perception, haptic perception and acquisition of perceptual-motor skills. Professor Bushnell received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1979 and a BA in psychology from Swarthmore College in 1972. She served as chair of the Tufts Psychology Department from 1993 to 1996 and sat on the editorial board of the journal Child Development.

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Emily Bushnell's Published Works

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Motor development and the mind: the potential role of motor abilities as a determinant of aspects of perceptual development. (1993) (477)
The development of anticipatory hand orientation during infancy. (1984) (236)
Doing the right thing: infants' selection of actions to imitate from observed event sequences. (2007) (179)
The decline of visually guided reaching during infancy (1985) (129)
The spatial coding strategies of one-year-old infants in a locomotor search task. (1995) (113)
Children's haptic and cross-modal recognition with familiar and unfamiliar objects. (1999) (85)
Haptic perception of material properties by 3-month-old infants (2005) (64)
Spilling thoughts: configuring attentional resources in infants’ goal-directed actions (2000) (63)
Exploring and exploiting objects with the hands during infancy. (1998) (56)
Infant visual acuity as a function of viewing distance. (1976) (45)
Infants' sensitivity to arbitrary pairings of color and taste (1988) (42)
Visual-tactual knowledge in 8-, 9½, and 11-month-old infants (1982) (39)
Recognition of color-form compounds by 4-month-old infants (1985) (36)
The Development of Haptic Perception During Infancy (2013) (34)
Infants' detection of visual-tactual discrepancies: asymmetries that indicate a directive role of visual information. (1987) (30)
The Ontogeny of Intermodal Relations: Vision and Touch in Infancy (1981) (27)
Spooning and basketing: children's dealing with accidental gaps in the lexicon. (1984) (27)
Relationship between Visual and Tactual Exploration by 6-Month-Olds. (1985) (20)
Beyond the information given: infants' transfer of actions learned through imitation. (2010) (20)
Haptic Detection of Artificial Tumors by Hand and with a Tool in a MIS Environment (2012) (15)
Infants' use of contextual cues in the generalization of effective actions from imitation. (2013) (13)
Infants’ Use of Gaze Cues to Interpret Others’ Actions and Emotional Reactions (2017) (11)
Young Children's Knowledge About Their Senses: Perceptions and Misconceptions (1994) (9)
Inappropriate expansion: a demonstration of a methodology for child language research (1977) (5)
The perception of identity by 6 1/2-month-old infants. (1992) (4)
The Role of Variation in Infant Categorization. (1985) (2)
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back. (2000) (1)
The influence of a comparison stimulus on visual processing in infancy (1986) (1)
Malleability of political attitudes regarding the 2016 presidential election (2017) (0)
Do Infants Learn Actions or Actions as Causes From Imitation (2006) (0)
Acknowledgment (2009) (0)
Only One Way to Skin a Cat? Infants' Persistence with the First Means Learned by Imitation (2006) (0)
Strategic locomotion in young walkers (2015) (0)
Emotionality and gender of a third party reporter on memory distortion (2017) (0)
Infants can perceive and remember compounds (1984) (0)
What visual-tactual discrepancies do infants detect? (1984) (0)
Thoughts on Imitation as a Perception–Action Coupling: An Essay in Honor of Herbert L. Pick, Jr. (2014) (0)
Haptic discrimination of material properties by 3-month-old infants (1996) (0)

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