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Jennie E. Pyers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Wellesley College

Office SCI484B
Tel: x3736
Office Hours: Monday 4:15-5:15, Tuesday 11:15-12:15 or by appointment

Prof. Jennie Pyers’ research focuses on the relationship between language and cognition. In particular, she examines both language-general and language-specific effects on human cognition. To investigate which domains of cognition are impaired when language acquisition is delayed, she works with language-delayed deaf children and Deaf adults who have learned an emerging sign language, Nicaraguan Sign Language. She also investigates how experience with a sign language affects spatial cognition and categorization. Her recent research interests also include language processing in hearing bimodal bilinguals--Children of Deaf Adults who are fluent in both a signed and a spoken language--and the relationship between gesture and spatial cognition.