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College of Natural and Social Sciences
Kaveri Subrahmanyam Office: KH C-3061 Introduction Teaching Interests |
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College of Natural and Social Sciences
Kaveri Subrahmanyam Office: KH C-3061 Introduction Teaching Interests |
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am a developmental psychologist who joined the Psychology Department in 2006. From 1996-2006 I was in the department of Child and Family Studies here at CSULA..
I teach a variety of courses in psychology including courses in introductory psychology, life span development, developmental psychology, cognitive development, and adolescent development.
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direct the Media and Language Lab at CSULA, where we investigate children’s and adolescents' interactions with digital media. I am interested in studying children's and teens' construction of their interactive/online culture and in studying how their participation in this interactive culture affects their learning and development in turn. I have studied teen interactions in the newer communication forms such as chat rooms and blogs and am currently conducting a study investigating teen use of MySpace and Facebook. In my early research in this area, I focused mostly on computers and interactive games and their impact on children's cognition, with a special emphasis on gender issues.In another line of research, I study young Spanish-speaking children's learning of oral English. I am investigating monolingual English- and Spanish-dominant-speakers' attention to different sources of information (perceptual-ontological information vs. syntactic information) when learning English nouns. The results of this work has implications for designing ESL instruction and preliminary findings suggest that second language instruction must take into account the syntactic structure of the native/home language and its impact when learning English as a second language. Another study (in collaboration with Dr. Marlene Zepeda, CSLA) is a short-term longitudinal project, in which we will follow the oral language development in English and Spanish among preschool children from low-income Mexican-origin families of varying acculturative status.
Date Selected Recent Publications In Press Subrahmanyam, K. How children respond to the screen. Invited book review for the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. In Press Subrahmanyam, K & Lin, G. Adolescents on the Net: Internet Use and Well-Being. Adolescence. In Press Šmahel, D. & Subrahmanyam, K. Any girls want to chat press 911: Partner Selection in Monitored and Unmonitored Teen Chat Rooms. CyberPsychology and Behavior. In Press Subrahmanyam, K. & Greenfield, P. Media Symbol Systems and Cognitive Processes. To appear in S. Calvert & B. Wilson (Eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Children, Media, and Development. England, UK: Blackwell Publishing. 2006 Subrahmanyam, K. Technology Matters: Your Child and the Internet. Duke Gifted letter. Your child and the internet. Duke gifted letter, vol 6, spring 2006 (issue 3) 2006 Subrahmanyam, K., Šmahel, D., & Greenfield, P. M. Connecting developmental processes to the Internet: Identity presentation and sexual exploration in online teen chatrooms. Developmental Psychology, 42, 1-12. 2006 Subrahmanyam, K., & Chen, H. A cross-linguistic study of English- and Chinese-speaking Children’s learning of object and Substance words. First Language, 26, 141-160. 2006 Greenfield, P. M., Gross, E. F., Subrahmanyam, K., Suzuki, L., & Tynes, B. Teens On the Internet: Interpersonal Connection, Identity, and Information. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin, & S. Kiesler (Eds.), Computers, phones, and the Internet: Domesticating information technology (pp. 185–200). 2005 Joram, E., Bertheau, M., Gabriele, A, J., Gelman, R., & Subrahmanyam, K. Using reference points and the mental number line to teach measurement estimation. Journal for Research in Math Education, 36, 4-23. 2005 Maynard, A. E., Subrahmanyam, K., Greenfield, P. M. Technology and the Development of Intelligence: From the Loom to the Computer. In R. J. Sternberg and D. Preiss (Eds.), Intelligence and Technology: The impact of tools on the nature and development of human abilities (pp.29-53). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2004 Subrahmanyam, K., Greenfield, P. M, & Tynes, B. Constructing Sexuality and Identity in an Online Teen Chatroom. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 25, 651-666. 2003 Greenfield, P. M. & Subrahmanyam, K. Online Discourse in a Teen Chatroom: New Codes and New Modes of Coherence in a Visual Medium. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24, 713-738. 2003 Subrahmanyam, K. Youth and Media: Opportunities for Development or Lurking Dangers? Invited book review of Children, Adolescents, and the Media. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24, 381-387.
2003 Subrahmanyam, K, Gelman, R. & Lafosse, A. Animates and other separably moveable objects. In E. M. Forde & G. W. Humphreys (Eds.), Category-specificity in brain and mind (pp. 341-371). Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press.
2001 Subrahmanyam, K., Greenfield, P. M. Kraut, & Gross, E. The Impact of Computer Use on Children’s Development. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 22, 7-30. 2000 Subrahmanyam, K., Kraut, R. E., Greenfield, P., & Gross, E. The Impact of Home Computer Use on Children’s Activities and Development. In M. K. Shields (Ed.), The Future of Children: Children and Computer Technology, Vol. 10 (Spring 2000), 123-144.
1999 Subrahmanyam, K., Landau, B., & Gelman, R. Shape, Material, and Syntax: Interacting Forces in Children's Learning of Novel Words for Objects and Substances. Language and Cognitive Processes, 14, 249-281. 1998 Subrahmanyam, K., & Greenfield, P. M. Computer games for girls: What makes them play? In H. Jenkins & J. Cassell (Eds.), From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games (pp. 46-71). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1998 Joram, E., Subrahmanyam, K., & Gelman, R. (1998). Measurement estimation: Learning to map the route from numbers to quantity and back. Review of Educational Research, 68, 413-449. 1994 Subrahmanyam, K., & Greenfield, P.M. (1994). Effect of video game practice on spatial skills in girls and boys. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 15, 13-32.
| Ph.D. Psychology, 1993 |
| University of California, Los Angles |
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M.A. Psychology 1989 University of California, Los Angeles |
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MA. Psychology, 1986 University of Mysore, India |
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B.A. Psychology, 1984 Women's Christian College, India |