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Wellesley College: Wellesley, Ma, US

2020-07-01 to present | Professor (Psychology)
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Jennie Pyers

Wellesley College: Wellesley, Massachusetts, US

2006-07-01 to 2020-06-30 | Associate Professor (Psychology)
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Jennie Pyers

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University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley, California, US

1998-08-30 to 2004-12-31 | Ph.D. (Psychology)
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Works (7)

Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size

Language Acquisition
2024-04-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Lauren Berger; Jennie Pyers; Amy Lieberman; Naomi Caselli
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The iconic motivation for the morphophonological distinction between noun–verb pairs in American Sign Language does not reflect common human construals of objects and actions

Language and Cognition
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Jennie E. Pyers; Karen Emmorey
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From Seed to System: The Emergence of Non-Manual Markers for Wh-Questions in Nicaraguan Sign Language

Languages
2022-05-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Annemarie Kocab; Ann Senghas; Jennie Pyers
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Deaf Children of Hearing Parents Have Age-Level Vocabulary Growth When Exposed to American Sign Language by 6 Months of Age

The Journal of Pediatrics
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Naomi Caselli; Jennie Pyers; Amy M. Lieberman
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Gesture Helps, Only If You Need It: Inhibiting Gesture Reduces Tip‐of‐the‐Tongue Resolution for Those With Weak Short‐Term Memory

Cognitive Science
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jennie E. Pyers; Rachel Magid; Tamar H. Gollan; Karen Emmorey
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Reduced neural selectivity for mental states in deaf children with delayed exposure to sign language

Nature Communications
2020-06-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Hilary Richardson; Jorie Koster-Hale; Naomi Caselli; Rachel Magid; Rachel Benedict; Halie Olson; Jennie Pyers; Rebecca Saxe
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Reduced Neural Selectivity for Mental States in Deaf Children with Delayed Exposure to Sign Language

2019-02-13 | Other
Contributors: Hilary Richardson; Jorie Koster-Hale; Naomi Kenney Caselli; Rachel Willcox Magid; Rachel Benedict; Halie Olson; Jennie Pyers; Rebecca Saxe
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