EDUCATION

Ph.D., Psychology, 2004, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M.A., Anthropology, 2001, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.A. with High Distinction, Russian and Japanese, 1992, University of Iowa, Iowa City

APPOINTMENTS

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

NIH-NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 2005-2007 (declined)
NIH-NRSA Post-Doctoral Traineeship, Harvard University, 2004-2005
NSF-ROLE Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 2004
Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2003
U. S. Department of Education Foreign Language/Area Studies Multi-Year Fellowship, 2001-2003 (declined 2nd year)
Culture & Cognition Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2000-2001
NIH Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1997-1999
Regents' Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1996-1999 (declined 2nd and 3rd years)
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Iowa, 1991

PUBLICATIONS

Sarnecka, B. W. & Lee, M. D. (Under review) Levels of Number Knowledge in Early Childhood.
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Sarnecka, B. W. & Carey, S. (In press). How Counting Represents Number: What Children Must Learn and When They Learn It. Cognition.
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Gelman, S.A., Goetz, P.J., Sarnecka, B.W., & Flukes, J. (In press). Generic language in parent-child conversations. Language Learning and Development.   
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Sarnecka, B.W., Kamenskaya, V.G., Yamana, Y., Ogura, T., & Yudovina, J.B. (2007). From grammatical number to exact numbers: Early meanings of "one," "two," and "three" in English, Russian, and Japanese.Cognitive Psychology, 55, 136-168.   
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Sarnecka, B.W. (2006) [Review of the book Language development across childhood and adolescence by Ruth A. Berman, Ed.] Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28, 535-537.
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Carey, S. & Sarnecka, B.W. (2006). The development of human conceptual representations. M. Johnson & Y. Munakata (Eds.), Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development: Attention and Performance XXI, 473-496. 
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Sarnecka, B., & Cerutti, A. (2005) Specificity, direction, and unit-of-one: Piecing together the logic of number words [Abstract]. 4th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, http://www.cogdevsoc.org/meetings.html
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Sarnecka, B.W. & Gelman, S.A. (2004). Six does not just mean a lot: Preschoolers see number words as specific. Cognition, 92, 329-352.
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Sarnecka, B.W., Kamenskaya, V.G., Ogura, T., Yamana, Y., & Yudovina, J.B. (2004). Language as lens: Plurality marking and numeral learning in English, Japanese, and Russian. In Proceedings of the 28th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [Data are included in Sarnecka et al (2007)]
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Sarnecka, B.W. (2004) Language as Lens: Plurality marking and numeral learning in English, Japanese, and Russian. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan.

Sarnecka, B.W. (2002). [Review of the book Human language and our reptilian brain: The subcortical bases of speech, syntax and thought by Philip Lieberman]. Journal of Cognition and Culture 2, 161-162.
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Sarnecka, B.W. (2002). [Review of the book Language and gesture byDavid McNeill, Ed.]. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2, 81-82.
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Sarnecka, B.W. (2001). [Review of the book The neurolinguistics of bilingualism: An introduction by Franco Fabbro]. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 1, 359-360.
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