For a complete list of my presentations, see below.
Conference Presentations & Panels
Erickson, L.C. (October, 2018). A developmental learning scientist’s perspective on data science ethics. Data Ethics Panel, Data Science Leadership Summit, Park City, Utah.
Erickson, L.C. (June, 2018). Overview of the General Data Protection Regulation. Lightning talk, Workshop: Taking Data Science to America's Emerging Workforce.
Sin Mei Tsui, A., Berthiaume, M.., Erickson, L.C., Thiessen, E.D., & Fennell, C. T. (2016, November). How language background and individuals’ attentional processes contribute to the success of tracking two inputs in a statistical learning task. Poster to be presented at the 41st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Sin Mei Tsui, A., Chamberlain, A., Erickson, L.C., Thiessen, E.D., & Fennell, C. T. (2016, June). Learning two languages at once: The benefit of bilingualism. Presentation at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Ottawa, Ontario.
Erickson, L.C. & Newman, R.S. (2016, April). Children’s language learning and processing in noisy listening environments. Poster presented at Applying Cognitive Science Research in the Classroom – A Math Center Conference, Arlington, VA.
Erickson, L.C., Godwin, K.E., Dickerson, J.P., Thiessen, E.D., & Fisher, A.V. (2015, March). Different mechanisms for regulating sustained attention and learning in children. Paper Symposium, “Thinking beyond the lab: Understanding cognition across contexts can advance the application of developmental research,” presented at the 2015 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.
Erickson, L.C., Thiessen, E.D., & Graf Estes, K. (2013, October). Statistically coherent labels facilitate categorization in 8–month–olds. Paper Symposium, “How words become labels: statistical, perceptual, and social contexts for language learning and use,“ presented at the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN.
Cimpian, A., Erickson, L.C. (2011, March). Generic language as a source of generic knowledge. Paper Symposium, “How do children acquire generic knowledge?” presented at the 2011 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.
Conference Posters
Erickson, L.C. & Newman, R.S. (2016, April). Children’s language learning and processing in noisy listening environments. Poster presented at Applying Cognitive Science Research in the Classroom – A Math Center Conference, Arlington, VA.
Erickson, L.C., & Thiessen, E.D. (2015, June). Do labels segmented via statistical learning produce a Ganong effect? Poster presented at the 1st Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference, San Sebastian, Spain.
Erickson, L.C., Kaschak, M., Thiessen, E.D., & Berry, C.S. (2014, November). An exploration of individual differences in statistical learning. Poster presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.
Erickson, L.C., & Thiessen, E.D. (2014, March). Adaptation to a novel lexical stress pattern: Evidence for consistency across the lifespan. Poster presented at the 6th inter–Science of Learning Center Student and Post–Doc Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Erickson, L.C., & Thiessen, E.D. (2013, October). Adaptation to a novel lexical stress pattern: Evidence for consistency across the lifespan. Poster presented at the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN.
Erickson, L.C., Thiessen, E.D., & Rakison, D.H. (2012, April). Tones as invitations to categories? Experience with tones facilitates subsequent categorization in the presence of a tone–label mapping for 8– but not 4–month–old infants. Poster presented at the 5th inter–Science of Learning Center Student and Post–Doc Conference, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Erickson, L.C., & Thiessen, E.D. (2011, March). Experience facilitates statistical learning in processing of tonal stimuli. Poster presented at the 4th inter–Science of Learning Center Student and Post–Doc Conference, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.
Erickson, L.C., Thiessen, E.D., & Rakison, D.H. (2011, October). Tones as invitations to categories? The role of experience with tones and words on infants’ category formation. Poster presented at the 7th Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Philadephia, PA.
Garcia, S., Erickson, L., Papaleo, F., Crawley, J.N., & Weinberger, D.R. (2010, October). Working memory deficits in catechol–0–methyltransferase knockout female mice: opposite phenotype compared to male mice. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Erickson, L., Papaleo, F., Crawley, J.N., & Weinberger, D.R. (2008, August). Working memory deficits in catechol–0–methyltransferase knockout female mice: opposite phenotype compared to male mice. Poster presented at the 9th Annual NIMH Scientific Retreat, Gettysburg, PA.
Other Presentations
Erickson, L.C. (2014, September). Individual variation in statistical learning: Measurement, mechanism, and language. Presentation to the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
Erickson, L.C. (2013, September). Statistically coherent labels facilitate categorization in 8–month–olds. Presentation to the Developmental Discussion Group, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Erickson, L.C. (2012, October). The beginnings of word segmentation: 5–month–olds prioritize statistical cues over stress cues when parsing speech. Presentation to the Developmental Discussion Group, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Erickson, L.C. (2012, April). Tones as invitations to categories? Tones as invitations to categories: The role of experience in the facilitative effect of linguistic labels on categorization. Brown Bag Talk, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Erickson, L.C. (2011, April). Why is it easier to understand C3P0 than R2D2? The role of experience in the speech advantage. Brown Bag Talk, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Erickson, L.C., & Cimpian, A. (2010, April). A generic advantage in children’s recall of novel facts. Brown Bag Talk, Developmental Division, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, IL.