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James A. Dixon
James A. Dixon
Title: Associate Professor, Head of Developmental Division
Departmental Program: Developmental
E-mail: james.dixon@uconn.edu
Office: BOUS 139
Office Phone: (860) 486-6880
Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020
Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail
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Research Interests:
- Cognitive development
- Developmental Epistemology
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Development
- Developmental Methodology
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Undergraduate courses:
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Graduate courses:
- Cognitive Development
- Longitudinal Methods
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Representative Publications:
- Dixon, J. A., & Kelley, E. (2007). Theory revision and
redescription in knowledge acquisition: Complementary processes
in knowledge acquisition. Current Directions in Psychological
Science, 16, 111-115.
- Dixon, J. A., & Marchman, V. A. (2007). Grammar and the
lexicon: Developmental ordering in language acquisition. Child
Development, 78, 190-212.
- Dixon, J. A., & Kelley, E. (2006). The probabilistic epigenesis
of knowledge. In R. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development
and Behavior, (Vol. 34, pp. 323-361). New York: Academic
Press.
- Dixon, J. A., & Bangert, A. S. (2005). From regularities
to concepts: The development of children's understanding of a
mathematical relation. Cognitive Development, 20, 65-86.
- Dixon, J. A. (2005). Strong tests of developmental ordering hypotheses:
Integrating evidence from the second moment. Child Development,
76, 1-23.
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