Kristy vanMarle Ph.D.

Kristy vanMarle, Ph.D., received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Arizona in 1997. In 1999, she entered the graduate progam in developmental psychology at Yale University. There she studied numerical cognition in infants with Karen Wynn. During her time at Yale, she also studied adult visual attention and object cognition with Brian Scholl, and quantity representation in nonhuman primates with Laurie Santos.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2004, she went on to complete a three- year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rutgers University, where she investigated the development of quantity representation in both human adults and nonhuman animals, under the advisement of Rochel Gelman and Randy Gallistel.

She is now an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri - Columbia, and also the director of the Developmental Cognition Lab where she studies quantity representation and the development of the number concept in infants and young children.