Arlene Walker-Andrews, Ph.D.

Dr. Walker-Andrews is an associate provost and professor in the Department of Psychology in the University of Montana. She got her Ph.D degree from Cornell University in 1980. Her areas of competency and specialization are Infancy, Perceptual and Cognitive Development. Her research focuses on the development of infants' perception of emotional expressions, intermodal perception and early cognitive development.

The most cited publication is (11 cites):

Gogate, L. J., Walker-Andrews, A. S. & Bahrick, L. E. (2001). The intersensory origins of word comprehension: An ecological-dynamic system view. Developmental Science, 4, 1-18.

Recent publications are:

Walker-Andrews, A.S.(2005) Perceiving soical affordances: the development of emoiton understanding. In B. Homer and C. Tamis-LaMonda (Editors), The development of social cognition and communication, LEA. (pp, 93-116) (our core reading)

Montague, D.P.F.&Walker-Andrews, A.S.(2002). Mothers, fathers, and infants: the role of familiarity and parental involvement in infants' perception of emotion expressions. Child Development, 73, 1339-1352

Montague, D.P.F. & Walker-Andrews, A.S. (2001). Peekaboo: A new look at infants' perception of emotional expressions. Developmental Psychology, 37, 826-838

Kahana-Kalman, R., & Walker-Andrews, A. S. (2001). The role of person familiarity in young infants’ perception of emotional expressions. Child Development, 72, 352-369.

Walker-Andrews, A. S. (1997). Infants’ perception of expressive behaviors: Differentiation of multimodal information. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 437-456.