Dr. Sarah Paterson

Office Address: Dr. Sarah Paterson Associate Research Scientist Child Study Center Yale University School of Medicine Phone: (203) 737-4421 (lab) (203) 737-1352 (office) Fax: (203) 785-3705 E-Mail: sarah.paterson@yale.edu   Dr. Paterson is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Infancy Studies Laboratory, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. She earned her B.Sc. with 1st Class Honours in Psychology from the University of Bristol in 1996. Working closely with Professor Susan Gathercole, she studied phonological working memory and speech production in young children. In 1997 she received her M.Sc. with distinction in Psychological Research Methods from Lancaster University. Expanding upon her undergraduate research under the tutelage of Professor Graham Hitch, she examined phonological working memory and fast mapping in preschoolers. The Neurocognitive Development Unit of the Institute of Child Health and the Department of Psychology, University College, London, awarded Dr. Paterson her Doctorate in Psychology in 2000. Under the supervision of Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, she studied language and number understanding in children with Williams and Downs syndromes. For her work, Dr. Paterson received the Butterworth Dissertation Award of the International Society for Infant Studies. Dr. Paterson joined the Infancy Studies Laboratory in October of 2002.   Doctoral Dissertation The development of language and number understanding in Williams syndrome and Downs syndrome: Evidence from the infant and mature phenotypes. Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health; Department of Psychology, University College, London Masters Thesis Is is a Koob, a soob, or a teed? The relationship between phonological working memory and fast mapping in preschoolers. Lancaster University Final Year Project Phonological working memory and speech production in preschool children. University of Bristol

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