| Education: |
Brown University, Providence, RI Ph.D. Candidate in Cognitive Science Advisor: Dr. James Morgan University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Mag.Phil. in Linguistics, November 2005 Thesis title: Learning and overgeneralization patterns in a connectionist model of the German plural Supervised by Dr. Georg Dorffner and Dr. Wolfgang Dressler University of Chicago, Chicago, IL B.A. in Biological Sciences and Linguistics with General Honors, June 2003 |
| Fellowships and Awards: |
Dissertation proposal funded as NSF grant BCS-0924821, 2009-2011 Women in Cognitive Science Travel Award for Cognitive Science Society Conference, 2009 Brain Science Program Graduate Fellowship, Brown University, 2008 Cognitive Science Society Student Travel Award, Glushko-Samuelson Foundation, 2007, 2009 Brown University Fellowship, 2005-2006 Phi Beta Kappa, 2003 Student Marshal, University of Chicago, 2002 University Scholar, University of Chicago, 1999-2003 National Merit Scholar, 1999-2003 |
| Publications: |
Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., and Morgan, J. L. (2009). "The influence of categories on perception: Explaining the perceptual magnet effect as optimal statistical inference." Psychological Review, 116(4), 752-782. Feldman, N. H., Griffiths, T. L., and Morgan, J. L. (2009). "Learning phonetic categories by learning a lexicon." Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Soderstrom, M., Conwell, E., Feldman, N., and Morgan, J. (2009). "The learner as statistician: Three principles of computational success in language acquisition." Developmental Science, 12(3), 409-411. Shi, L., Feldman, N. H., and Griffiths, T. L. (2008). "Performing Bayesian inference with exemplar models." Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Feldman, N. H. and Griffiths, T. L. (2007). "A rational account of the perceptual magnet effect." Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. |
| Teaching Experience: |
Brown University Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Providence, RI Teaching Assistant, COGS 0450: Language and the Mind, Spring 2009 Teaching Assistant, COGS 0410: Introduction to Linguistic Theory, Autumn 2008 Teaching Assistant, CG 009: Quantitative Methods in Psychology, Autumn 2006 Guest Lecturer, CG 143: Child Language Acquisition, Autumn 2006 Northeastern University Psychology Department, Boston, MA Guest Lecturer, PSY U466: Cognition, Spring 2008 Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium, 11th District, Vienna, Austria English Foreign Language Assistant, October 2003-May 2005 University of Vienna Institute for Romance Languages, Vienna, Austria Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Proseminar I - Spanish, Autumn 2003 University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, Chicago, IL Laboratory Teaching Assistant, BIOL 20193: Developmental Biology, Spring 2002, 2003 Laboratory Teaching Assistant, BIOL 20192: Genetics, Winter 2002, 2003 Laboratory Teaching Assistant, BIOL 20191: Cell and Molecular Biology, Autumn 2002 |
| Certifications and Courses: |
IPAM Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition, UCLA, July 2007 Sheridan Center Teaching Certificate I, Brown University, May 2007 Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (level 4 certification), University of Cambridge, July 2003 |