Emily W. Bushnell is a professor

Professor

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 of psychology

Psychology

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 at Tufts University

Tufts University

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 in Medford

Medford, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, USA. Her areas of professional interest include child development

Child development

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, infant perception

Perception

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, haptic perception

Haptic perception

Haptic perception is the process of recognizing objects through touch. It involves a combination of somatosensory perception of patterns on the skin surface and proprioception of hand position and conformation....

 and acquisition of perceptual-motor skills. She has written or co-authored more than 30 articles in professional publications and sits on the editorial board of the professional journal Child Development. Professor Bushnell received her Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 from University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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in 1979. She served as chair of the Tufts Psychology Department from 1993 to 1996.

Representative publications

Bushnell, E. W., and Boudreau, J. P. (1998) "Exploring and exploiting objects with the hands during infancy" in K. Connolly (Ed.), The Psychobiology of the Hand, pp. 144–161, Cambridge, UK: Mac Keith Press.

Bushnell, E. W., and Baxt, C. (1999) "Children’s haptic and cross-modal recognition with familiar and unfamiliar objects", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, pp. 1867–1881.

Roder, B. J., Bushnell, E. W., and Sasseville, A. M. (2000). "Infants preferences for familiarity and novelty during the course of visual processing", Infancy, 1, pp. 491–507.

Striano, T., and Bushnell, E. W. (2005). "Haptic perception of material properties by 3-month-old infants", Infant Behavior and Development, 28, pp. 266–289.

External links

• Tufts University Dept. of Psychology