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Marina Vasilyeva

Associate Professor

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Marina Vasilyeva

Ph.D.

Contact

Campion Hall Room 239D

Telephone: 617-552-1755

Email: marina.vasilyeva.1@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago
  • B.A., University of Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Courses

Statistics for Applied Psychology
Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior
Cognition and Learning

Research Interests

Cognitive development and language learning in the classroom context; the role of teachers and peers in language acquisition and literacy; sources of individual differences in mathematical learning.

Expertise

  • Cognitive and Social Development
  • Language Learning & Literacy
  • STEM Teaching and Learning
Curriculum Vitae

Department

CDEP Counseling, Developmental & Educational Psychology

Publications

  • Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E., & Shen, C. (2015). Computational fluency and strategy choice predict individual and cross-national differences on complex arithmetic. 聽Developmental Psychology, 51,(10), 1489-1500.聽
  • Vasilyeva, M., Laski, E., Ermakova, A., Lai, W.F., Jeong, Y., & Hachigian, A. (2015). 聽Re-examining the language account of cross-national differences in number representations. 聽Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 129, 12-25.
  • Ganley, C., Vasilyeva, M., & Dulaney, A. (2014). 聽Spatial ability mediates the gender difference in middle-school students' science performance. 聽Child Development, 85(4), 1419-1432.
  • Vasilyeva, M., Ganley, C., Casey, B., Dulaney, A., Tillinger, M., & Anderson, K. (2013). 聽How children solve volume problems: 聽Investigating factors influencing strategy choice. 聽Cognition and Instruction, 31, 29-61.
  • Vasilyeva, M., & Lourenco, S. (2012). 聽The development of spatial cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: 聽Cognitive Science, 3, 349-362.
  • Vasilyeva, M., & Waterfall, H. (2012). Beyond syntactic priming: 聽Evidence for activation of alternative syntactic structures. 聽Journal of Child Language, 39, 258-283.
  • Bowers, E., & Vasilyeva, M. (2011). The relation between teacher input and lexical growth of preschoolers. 聽Applied Psycholinguistics, 32, 221-241.
  • Vasilyeva, M., Waterfall, H., Gamez, P., Gomez, L.E., Bowers, E., & Shimpi, M. (2010). Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in bilingual children. 聽Journal of Child Language, 37, 1037-1064.
  • Vasilyeva, M., Casey, B., Dearing, E., & Ganley, C. (2009). 聽Measurement skills in low-income elementary school students: Exploring the nature of gender differences. Cognition and Instruction, 27, 401-428.
  • Vasilyeva, M., Waterfall, H., & Huttenlocher, J. (2008). 聽Emergence of syntax: 聽Commonalities and differences across children. 聽Developmental Science, 11, 84-97.
  • Vasilyeva, M., Duffy, S., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). 聽Developmental changes in the use of absolute and relative information: 聽The case of spatial extent. 聽Journal of Cognition and Development, 8, 455-471.
  • Vasilyeva, M., & Bowers, E. (2006). 聽Children's use of geometric information in mapping tasks. 聽Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 95, 255-277.
  • Vasilyeva, M., Huttenlocher, J., & Waterfall, H. (2006). 聽Effects of language intervention on syntactic skill levels of preschoolers. 聽Developmental Psychology, 42, 164-174.
  • Levine, S., Vasilyeva, M., Lourenco, S., Newcombe, N., & Huttenlocher, J. (2005). Socioeconomic status modifies the sex difference in spatial skill. 聽Psychological Science, 16,841-845.
  • Vasilyeva, M. & Huttenlocher, J. (2004). Early development of scaling ability. Developmental Psychology, 40, 682-690.
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