Erin R. Hahn
Erin grew up in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, a small town
outside of Pittsburgh. She earned her B.S. from Carnegie Mellon
University (with a minor in Gender Studies), completing an honors
thesis that examined the relationship between the words children say
and the ones they understand. The results of this project were
presented at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research, held
that year in Missoula, Montana and were recently published in the
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Having
been bitten by the research bug and loving it, Erin decided to pursue
her graduate work in developmental psychology also at Carnegie Mellon.
She completed her doctoral work on children’s ability to learn labels
and actions for objects and has endless hours of video showing her do
bizarre things with weird objects (like elbow slamming a bottle
opener). She has continued this line of research at Furman, and now has
a plethora of video documenting Furman students engaging in the same
strange interactions with objects. Her laboratory, the
Learning Lab, is home to a number of other ongoing projects in collaboration
with Furman Psychology majors. She welcomes any student with an
interest in developmental psychology to meet with her to discuss how
they can become involved in the
Learning Lab.
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Courses
| PSY-211 |
Childhood and Adolescence |
| PSY-381 |
Autism |
| PSY-201/202 |
Research Methods |
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