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portraitJie Li
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Sponsor: Prentice Starkey

Office: 1209 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 642-3798
Email: jieli2 at berkeley.edu
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Staff Contact:
Office: 1209 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 642-3798
Email: jieli2 at berkeley.edu

J
ie Li is interested in cognitive development in infancy and early childhood. Her research projects focus on (1) infants' understanding of objects and events, and (2) numerical cognition in infants and young children.



Degrees

Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 2008
M.A. in Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 2006
B.S. in Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China 2003

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Professional Experience

Post-Doc Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, CA, 08/2008 - present

Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, 08/2003 - 12/2006, 01/2008 - 05/2008

Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, 01/2005 - 05/2005, 01/2006 - 05/2006, 01/2007 - 05/2007

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Courses and Professional Programs

Instructor for PSYCH216 Child Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 01/2007 - 05/2007

Teaching Assistant for PSYCH216 Child Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 01/2006 - 05/2006

Teaching Assistant for PSYCH496 Adolescent Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 01/2005 - 05/2005

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Publications

Articles (Refereed Journals, Proceeding)

Li, J., Yuan, S., Baillargeon, R., & Needham, A. (under review). 3-month-old infants expect an object to fall when unsupported.

Li, J., & Baillargeon, R. (manuscript to be submitted). Priming effects in infants from violation-of-expectation tasks and action tasks.

Li, J., Baillargeon, R., & Needham, A. (manuscript to be submitted). Young infants' reasoning about support events.

Li, J., Zhang, Y., & Gao, J. (2004). Cue detection and inhibitory control in prospective memory: Evidence from semantic negative priming. International Journal of Psychology, 39 (Suppl.), 64.

Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., Min, B., Jia, J., & Li, J. (2004). Phonological encoding in Chinese speech production: Evidences from speech errors of aphasic patients and oral response inhibition paradigm. International Journal of Psychology, 39 (Suppl.), 99.s

Book Chapters

Baillargeon, R., Wu, D., Yuan, S., Li, J., & Luo, Y. (in press). Young infants÷ expectations about self-propelled objects. In B. Hood & L. (Eds.), The origins of object knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press.

Baillargeon, R., Li. J., Ng. W., & Yuan. S. (2008). A new account of infants' physical reasoning. To appear in A. Needham & A. Woodward (Eds.), Learning and the infant mind (pp.66-116). New York: Oxford University Press.

Baillargeon, R., Li. J., Luo. Y., & Wang. S. (2006). Under what conditions do infants detect continuity violations? In Y. Munakata & M. H. Johnson (Eds.), Processes of change in brain and cognitive development. (Attention and Performance XXI, pp. 163-188).New York: Oxford University. Press

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Presentations

Invited

Li, J. (2008, Dec). How do infants reason about physical events? Presented at Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China.

Li, J. (2008, May). When do infants detect changes in number and size? Connections between infants' object-representation and physical-reasoning systems. Presented at Institute of Human Development, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Li, J., Baillargeon, R., & Leslie, A. (2007, Mar). Detecting number and extent violations in infancy: Event category effects. Presented at the Pre-SRCD Meeting at Harvard University, Boston, MA.

Li, J., & Baillargeon, R. (2006, Apr). Inducing 8.5-month-old infants to succeed or fail at detecting height changes: Positive and negative mapping effects. Presented at Conference on Human Development, Louisville, KY.

Papers

Li, J. & Starkey, P. (2009, June). An instrument to assess informal mathematical cognition in children aged 2 years. Presented at the Forth Annual IES Research Conference, Washington DC.

Li, J., Baillargeon, R., & Needham, A. (2009, Apr). Priming effects in 4.5-month-old infants in a support event. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, CO.

Li, J., Baillargeon, R., & Simons, D. (2009, Apr). How do infants detect height changes? Double dissociations between infants' object-representation and physical-reasoning systems. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, CO.

Li, J., & Baillargeon, R. (2008, Mar). Priming effects in infants from a manual search task. Presented at the biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.

Li, J., Baillargeon, R., & Hummel, J. (2007, Mar). "Where is Donald Duck?" Analogical priming effects across event categories in a manual search task. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA.

Li, J., Baillargeon, R., & Simons, D. (2006, Jun). How do infants represent physical variables? Connections between object-recognition and physical-reasoning system. Presented at the biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

Li, J., & Baillargeon, R. (2006, Jun). When is an object that is released in contact with another object stable? Learning about support events in young infants. Presented at the biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

Li, J., & Baillargeon, R. (2005, Apr). Change blindness in infancy: When do infants detect a change in an object's height? Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Li, J., & Baillargeon, R. (2005, Apr). Infants' reasoning about sequences of events from different categories: Positive and negative carry-over effects. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Li, J., Zhang, Y., & Gao, J. (2004, Aug). Cue detection and inhibitory control in prospective memory: Evidence from semantic negative priming. Presented at the International Conference on Psychology, Beijing, China.

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Professional Affiliations and Memberships

Society for Research in Child Development, 2004 - Present

International Society of Infant Studies, 2004 - Present

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Areas of Specialization / Interests
Child Development
Cognitive Development
Early Childhood Development
Mathematics Education

Last Modified: 10/15/09