jason brunt

Richard Jason Brunt
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Director, Biola Child Lab
• Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, University of Texas, (Austin, Texas)
• M.A. in Developmental Psychology, University of Texas, (Austin, Texas)
• B.A. in Psychology, University of Maine (Bangor, Maine)
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Research Interests
• Cognitive development
• Early language development and the development of symbol use in infancy
Courses
• Advanced Developmental Psychology
• Advanced Statistics
• Lifespan Development
• Child and Adolescent Psychology
• Experimental Psychology
• Statistics for Psychology
Publications
• Cohen, L. B. & Brunt, R. J. (2009). Early word learning and categorization:
Presentations
methodological issues and recent empirical evidence. In J. Colombo, P.
McCardle & L. Freund (Eds.) Infant Pathways to Language: Methods, Models,
and Research Directions. Mawwaw, Le. E. Erlbaum.
• Cohen, L. B. & Brunt, R. J. (2009). Early word learning and categorization:
methodological issues and recent empirical evidence. In J. Colombo, P.
McCardle & L. Freund (Eds.) Infant Pathways to Language: Methods, Models,
and Research Directions. Mawwaw, Le. E. Erlbaum.
• Brunt, R. J. & Cohen, L. B. Novelty and labeling influences on infant looking
behavior in a categorization task. Poster presented at Armadillo: The Southwest
Cognition Conference (2006).

• Brunt, R. J. & Cohen, L. B. Tracking attentional and labeling influences on
looking behavior of 13- and 18-months olds. Poster presented at the International
Conference on Infant Studies (2006).
• Goldwater, M., Brunt, R. J., & Echols, C. The uniqueness of language to enable
Affiliations
pre-linguistic infants to form motion categories. Poster presented at the
International Conference on Infant Studies (2006).
• Member, International Society for Infant Studies
• Member, Society for Research in Child Development
Contact
Email: Jason.brunt@biola.edu