Janet K. Andrews
Janet (Jan) K. Andrews was a founding member of Vassar’s Cognitive Science Program (now Department.) Her research interests concern the relationships between perception, language, and cognition. A long-term interest is in the structure and formation of category concepts and in the relationship between perceptual processes and abstract knowledge. Her research investigates these issues primarily by examining the category learning behavior and perceptual judgments of adults and testing effects known as learned categorical perception (CP) to determine their nature and robustness. Another strong interest is in promoting transparency and replicability in cognitive science research.
Janet (Jan) K. Andrews earned her AB from Bard College and her AM and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a founding member of Vassar’s Cognitive Science Program (now Department) and teaches courses on introductory cognitive science, language, research methods, statistics and experimental design, and (occasionally) the cognitive science seminar (recent topic: language, embodiment, and abstraction).
Her research interests concern the relationships between perception, language, and cognition. A long-term interest is in the structure and formation of category concepts and in the relationship between perceptual processes and abstract knowledge. Her research investigates these issues primarily by examining the category learning behavior and perceptual judgments of adults and testing effects known as learned categorical perception (CP) to determine their nature and robustness. Another strong interest is in promoting transparency and replicability in cognitive science research.
Contact
Box 146
Departments and Programs
Courses
COGS 100 Introduction to Cognitive Science
COGS 213 Language
Selected Publications
Recent Publications and Conference Presentations
*Student co-author
- de Leeuw, J. R., Andrews, J., *Barney, L., *Bigler, M., *Bruna, P., *Chen, Y., *Cherry, R., *Dowie, D., *Forbes, E., *Haffey, B., *Hu, X., *Jaklitsch, M., *Leopold, N., *Lewis, C., *MacDonald, D., *McShaffrey, C., *Monroy-Spangenberg, E., *Nakayama, K., *Olstad, W., *Peng, R., *Scott-Rifer, G., *Wan, A., *Willans, L., & *Zhang, L. (2021). Words may jump-start meaning more than vision: A non-replication of early ERP effects in Boutonnet and Lupyan (2015). Collabra: Psychology, 7(1), Article number 29763.
- de Leeuw, J. R., Andrews, J., *Altman, Z., *Andrews, R., *Appleby, R., *Bonanno, J., *DeStefano, I., *Doyle-Samay, E., *Faruqui, A., *Griesmer, C., *Hwang, J., *Lawson, K., *Lee, R., *Liang, Y., *Mernacaj, J., *Molina, H., *Ng, H., *Park, S., *Possidente, T., & *Shriver, A. (2019). Similar event-related potentials to music and language: A replication of Patel, Gibson, Ratner, Besson, & Holcomb (1998). Meta-Psychology, 3.
- Andrews, J. K., de Leeuw, J. R., *Andrews, R., *Landolt, C., & *Griesmer, C. (2019). Distinguishing learned categorical perception from selective attention to a dimension: Preliminary evidence from a new method. In K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1342–1347). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Andrews, J. K., de Leeuw, J. R., *Larson, C., & *Xu, X. (2017). A preliminary p-curve analysis of learned categorical perception research. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1550–1555). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- de Leeuw, J. R., Andrews, J. K., Livingston, K. R., & *Chin, B. M. (2016). The effects of categorization on perceptual judgment are robust across different assessment tasks. Collabra, 2(1), 1–9.
- Andrews, J. K. (2014). Emerging sign languages: Evidence from the Caribbean. In N. Faraclas, R. Severing, C. Weijer, E. Echteld, & W. Rutgers (Eds.), Creolization and Commonalities, Proceedings of the ECICC, Volume 2. Willemstad, Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma. Pp. 77–83.
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