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Karl S. Rosengren
Now a Professor at Northwestern University
Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota
Affiliated with the Developmental Division
| Offices: | 305 Psychology Building 225 Freer Hall |
| Phones: | (217) 265-6994 (217) 244-7323 |
| Fax: | (217) 244-5876 |
| Labs: | 637 Psychology — 244-6088 10 Freer |
| Email: | krosengr@uiuc.edu |
| Website: | Cognitive Development Lab |
My research is in the area of cognitive and perceptual motor development. My focus in cognitive development is on how children reason about events in the world. I have been examining how children learn and reason about events which are possible in the world (such as growth and metamorphosis), events which are achieved by trickery (magic), and events which are possible only in fantasy (such as frogs turning into princess). In the perceptual motor area, I investigate how various components (cognitive, perceptual, and motoric) influence the development and performance of everyday tasks such as walking, catching and drawing.
Representative Publications:
- Ross, B. H., Gelman, S. A., & Rosengren, K. S. (2005). Category-based inferences affect classification. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 23, 1-24.
- DeLoache, J. S., Uttal, D. H., & Rosengren, K. S. (2004). Scale errors offer evidence for a perception-action dissociation early in life. Science, 304, 1027-1029.
- Rosengren, K. S., & Savelsbergh, G. (2003). The TASC-Based view on perceptual-motor learning and development. Infant Behavior and Development, 26, 473 - 494.
- Rosengren, K. S., & Braswell, G. (2001). Variability in children*s reasoning. In H. W. Reese & R. Kail (Eds.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior. Vol. 28, (pp. 1-40). Academic Press.
- Rosengren, K. S., Johnson, C., & Harris, P. (2000). Imagining the impossible: Magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Classes Recently Taught:
- Cognitive Development
- Motor Development