Alissa Ferry

Emailalissa.ferrymanchester.acuk

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I supervise projects on language and cognitive development (infants through school-aged) using behavioural, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging (e.g., EEG).

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University

Award Date: 29 Dec 2011

Master of Science, Northwestern University

Award Date: 19 Jun 2009

Bachelor of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Award Date: 15 May 2006

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Digital Futures

Keywords

language development
cognitive development
infancy
neuroimaging

Accepting PhD students

Accepting PhD students

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Bigger Versus Smaller: Children's Understanding of Size Comparison Words Becomes More Precise With Age
Ferry, A., Corcoran, M., Williams, E., Curtis, S., Gale, C. & Twomey, K., 27 Feb 2025, In: Child Development. 96, 2, p. 492-507
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Labels and object categorization in six- and nine-month-olds: tracking labels across varying carrier phrases
Ferry, A. & Guellai, B., 29 Jul 2021, In: Infant Behavior and Development.
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Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference
The ManyBabies Consortium, Frank, M. C., Alcock, K. J., Arias-Trejo, N., Aschersleben, G., Baldwin, D., Barbu, S., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Black, A. K., Blything, R., Böhland, M. P., Bolitho, P., Borovsky, A., Brady, S. M., Braun, B., Brown, A., Byers-Heinlein, K., Campbell, L. E. & Cashon, C. & 131 others, Choi, M., Christodoulou, J., Cirelli, L. K., Conte, S., Cordes, S., Cox, C., Cristia, A., Cusack, R., Davies, C., de Klerk, M., Delle Luche, C., de Ruiter, L., Dinakar, D., Dixon, K. C., Durier, V., Durrant, S., Fennell, C., Ferguson, B., Ferry, A., Fikkert, P., Flanagan, T., Floccia, C., Foley, M., Fritzsche, T., Frost, R. L. A., Gampe, A., Gervain, J., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Gupta, A., Hahn, L. E., Hamlin, J. K., Hannon, E. E., Havron, N., Hay, J., Hernik, M., Höhle, B., Houston, D. M., Howard, L. H., Ishikawa, M., Shoji, I., Jackson, I., Jakobsen, K. V., Jartó, M., Johnson, S., Junge, C., Karadag, D., Kartushina, N., Kellier, D. J., Keren-Portnoy, T., Klassen, K., Kline, M., Ko, E.-S., Kominsky, J. F., Kosie, J. E., Kragness, H. E., Kragness, H. E., Krieger, A. A. R., Krieger, F., Lany, J., Lazo, R. J., Lee, M., Leservoisier, C., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Lippold, M., Liszkowski, U., Liu, L., Luke, S. G., Lundwall, R. A., Cassia, V. M., Mani, N., Marino, C., Martin, A., Mastroberardino, M., Mateu, V., Mayor, J., Menn, K., Michel, C., Moriguchi, Y., Morris, B., Nave, K. M., Nazzi, T., Noble, C., Novack, M. A., Olesen, N. M., Orena, A. J., Ota, M., Panneton, R., Esfahani, S. P., Paulus, M., Pletti, C., Polka, L., Potter, C., Rabagliati, H., Ramachandran, S., Rennels, J. L., Reynolds, G. D., Roth, K. C., Rothwell, C., Rubez, D., Ryjova, Y., Saffran, J., Sato, A., Savelkouls, S., Schachner, A., Schafer, G., Schreiner, M. S., Seidl, A., Shukla, M., Simpson, E. A., Singh, L., Skarabela, B., Soley, G., Sundara, M., Theakston, A., Thompson, A., Trainor, L. J., Trehub, S. E., Trøan, A. S., Tsui, A.S.-M., Twomey, K., Von Holzen, K., Wang, Y., Waxman, S., Werker, J. F., Wermelinger, S., Woolard, A., Yurovsky, D., Zahner, K., Zettersten, M. & Soderstrom, M., 16 Mar 2020, In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science . 3, 1, p. 24-52 29 p.
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Similarity, analogy and development in radical exemplar theory: A commentary on Ambridge (2020)
Lieven, E. V. M., Ferry, A., Theakston, A. & Twomey, K., 1 Oct 2020, In: First Language. 40, 5-6, p. 600-603 4 p.
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Twelve to 24-month-olds can understand the meaning of morphological regularities in their language
Ferry, A., Nespor, M. & Mehler, J., 1 Dec 2020, In: Developmental psychology. 56, 1, p. 40-52
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LCD-PSY: Centre for Language, Communication and Developmental Psychology
Ambridge, B. (PI), Theakston, A. (PI), Sturrock, A. (CoI), Kindell, J. (CoI), Buckle, L. (CoI), Ferry, A. (CoI), Freed, J. (CoI), Kandemirci, B. (CoI), Linnert, S. (CoI), Lopez-Perez, B. (CoI), Papastergiou, A. (CoI), Twomey, K. (CoI), Köymen, B. (CoI), Mitchell, C. (CoI), Jensen, K. (CoI), Greenwood-Davies, S. (CoI), Hartshorn, C. (CoI), Ormerod, E. (CoI), Purcell, R. (CoI), Starkey, R. (CoI), Durrant, S. (CoI), Ellis, C. (CoI), Pert, S. (CoI), Waddington, O. (Researcher), Alcock, C. (Researcher), Walibhai, W. (Researcher), Zhang, S. (Researcher), Zhao, C. (Researcher), Leith, K. (PGR student), Ward, L. (PGR student), Price-Williams, D. (PGR student), Benafif, S. (PGR student), Eroglu, H. S. (PGR student), Savill, C. (PGR student), Gregori, F. (PGR student), Manfredi, L. (PGR student), Ozturk Mihci, I. (PGR student), Chen, Y. (PGR student), Ewaida, A. (PGR student), Hu, X. (PGR student), Jackson, K. (PGR student), Kerry, S. (PGR student), Zhang, J. (PGR student), Zhang, R. (PGR student), Chen, S. (PGR student), Breen, S. (PGR student), Ozturk, T. P. (PGR student), Walker-Sharpe, P. (PGR student), Price-Williams, D. (PGR student) & Wood, G. (PGR student)
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Project: Research

Developmental psychology (Journal)
Ferry, A. (Assistant editor)
1 Jan 2020
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work › Research

Alissa Ferry

Personal profile

Education/Academic qualification

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Keywords

Accepting PhD students

Fingerprint

Research output

Bigger Versus Smaller: Children's Understanding of Size Comparison Words Becomes More Precise With Age

Labels and object categorization in six- and nine-month-olds: tracking labels across varying carrier phrases

Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference

Similarity, analogy and development in radical exemplar theory: A commentary on Ambridge (2020)

Twelve to 24-month-olds can understand the meaning of morphological regularities in their language

Projects

LCD-PSY: Centre for Language, Communication and Developmental Psychology

Activities

Developmental psychology (Journal)