Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo

Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo

Ph.D. Candidate
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Georgetown University

Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate of Psychology with a concentration on Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience at Georgetown University. I work with Dr. Rachel Barr at the Early Learning Project in projects focused on Bilingualism and Cognition. My target populations are infants and toddlers. My training includes techniques such as fMRI (adults), fNIRS, and Eye-Tracking.

Interests

  • Bilingualism
  • Neuroscience
  • Infancy and Early Childhood
  • R & Python

Education

  • Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration on Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017-Present

    Georgetown University

  • B.A. in Psychology and Child & Family Studies, 2016

    Berea College

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Researcher

Early Learning Project

Jun 2017 – Present Washington, DC

Responsibilities include:

  • Investigate imitation capabilities and cognitive flexibility across monolingual and bilingual children from 6 months to 5 years old.
  • Conduct eye tracking research with infants between 6 to 15 months old.
  • Aggregation and analysis of quantitative data from 2 longitudinal projects.
  • Collection of data for ManyBabies Collaborative Project “Gaze Following”
 
 
 
 
 

Laboratory Manager

Early Learning Project

Jun 2016 – Jun 2017 Washington, DC

Responsibilities included:

  • Recruit participants and maintain databases.
  • Develop protocols for tasks measuring cognitive skills on children younger than 5 years old.
  • Data collection and statistical analysis.
  • Translation and interpretation Spanish<->English.
  • Manage a team of 14 research assistants.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Dr. Ian Norris

Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 Berea, KY

Responsibilities included:

  • Investigate whether green consumption motivation reduces the perceived necessity of goods under environmental threat.
  • Develop questionnaires and conduct experiment.
  • Analyze and present project findings at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

May 2014 – Aug 2014 Champaign-Urbana, IL

Responsibilities included:

  • Quantitative and qualitative data collection in preschool and laboratory settings.
  • Participant recruitment and outreach.
  • Assist with EEG and fNIRS data collection.

Professional Associations

Student Member Representative

International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) 2019 – 2020

Student Member Representative

International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) 2019 – 2020

Campus Representative for Georgetown University

Association for Psychological Science (APS) 2018 – 2020

Member of the Latino & the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression Caucuses

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2018 – 2020

Projects

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Eye Tracking Project

How young children exposed to multiple languages attend to the information in the world?

Learning and Teaching R

I administer a GitHub repo with dozens of resources to learn and teach R (for free).

Longitudinal Cognitive Flexibility Project

How bilingually exposed infants transfer learning across cues and the influence of bilingualism on cognitive development?

Play Project

Play and Learning Across a year

Conferences

Talks

  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Lui, M., Rusnak, S., & Barr, R., (2019). Changes in Context and Objects: Testing Memory Flexibility on Monolinguals and Bilingual Infants. Talk given at the Georgetown University Null Results Blitz, Washington, D.C.
  • Barr, F. R., Blanchfield, O., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Rusnak, S., & Zino, L., (2018). Memory interference in monolingual and bilingual 18-month-olds. Talk given at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Philadelphia, PA.

Posters

  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Blanchfield, O., Rusnak, S., Feller, M., Lozano, G., Mirek, O., Ryu, J., & Barr, R., (2020). Mutual Exclusivity: Using the Referent Selection Task with Monolingual and Bilingual 2-year-olds. Poster to be presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Glasgow, U.K.
  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Blanchfield, O., Rusnak, S., Motta, A., Greenwood, H., Strautman, N., Lozano, G., Ganea, P., & Barr, R. (2020), Monolingual and Bilingual 2-year-olds’ Learning and Transfer of Words from Books to Real Objects. Poster to be presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Glasgow, U.K.
  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Blanchfield, O., Rusnak, S., Lui, M., Nuñez, E., Varnerin, M., & Barr, R., (2019). When the New Gets in the Way of the Old: Testing Retroactive Interference in Toddlers. Poster to be presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), Chicago, Illinois.
  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Rusnak, S., Blanchfield, O., Schug, A., Holland, E., Nuñez, E., Suresh, S., & Barr, R. (2019). Memory Interference and Generalization: Current and Cumulative Bilingual Language Exposure Provides Insight into Memory Changes. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in child Development (SRCD), Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Rhoads, S. A., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Hassanzadeh, S., VanMeter, J. W., Marsh, A. A. (2019). Multivariate cross- classification on preliminary data suggests a role of posterior cingulate cortex across self- and meta- referential processing. Poster presented at the annual Social and Affective Neuroscience Society meeting, Miami, FL.
  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Blanchfield, O., Rusnak, S., Feller, M., Lozano, G., & Barr, R., (2018). Using the referent selection task to test mutual exclusivity in monolingual and bilingual 2-year-olds. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), San Diego, California.
  • Schug, A., Rocha Hidalgo, J., Rusnak, S., Blanchfield, O., Nuñez, E., Barr R., (2018). Navigating interference: the role of multilingualism and sibling status in toddlers. Poster presented at the Student Research Day Annual Exposition organized by the Medical Center Graduate Student Organization (MCGSO) at Georgetown University.
  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Rusnak, S., Blanchfield, O., & Barr, F. R., (2018). Memory interference in monolingual and bilingual 18-month-olds. Poster presented at the Expanding the Field 2018 (ETF 2018) workshop, Norwich, UK.
  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Rusnak, S., Blanchfield, O., Odier, M., & Barr, F. R., (2018). Cognitive Flexibility Differences between Monolingual and Bilingual Children. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Philadelphia, PA.
  • Barr, R., Blanchfield, O., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Rusnak, S., & Zino, L., (2018). Memory interference in monolingual and bilingual 18-month-olds. As part of Flash Talk Session: “Are bilingual infants really special?” at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Philadelphia, PA
  • Sawaf, T., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Blanchfield, O, Strautman, N., & Barr, F. R. (2017). The development of a novel imitation generalization task to measure cognitive flexibility in three year-olds. Poster presented at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), Washington, District of Columbia.
  • Rusnak, S., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Brito, H. N., & Barr, F. R. (2017). Bilingual Consequences in a challenging memory generalization transfer task during infancy: integration of multiple cues? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in child Development (SRCD), Austin, Texas.
  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., & Norris, I. (2016) Facial feedback and mood congruent memory. Talk presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Asheville, North Carolina.
  • Rocha-Hidalgo, J., & Porter, D. (2016) Effects of Two Teaching Approaches on Learning Words in a Foreign Language among school age children. Poster presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Ashville, North Carolina.
  • Berejnoi-Bejarano, A. E., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., & Norris, I. (2016). Green consumption motivation reduces the perceived necessity of goods under environmental threat. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s 17th Annual Convention (SPSP), San Diego, California.

Publications

The Development of Gaze Following in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants: A Multi-Lab Study
Krista Byers-Heinlein, Rachel KY Tsui, Daan van Renswoude, Alexis K Black, Rachel Barr, Anna Brown, Samantha Durrant, Nayeliz Gonzalez-Gomez, Jessica Hay, Mikolaj Hernik, Marianna Jarto, Agnes-Melinda Kovacs, Alexandra Laoun-Rubenstein, Casey Lew-Williams, Ulf Liszkowski, Liquan Liu, Christine Potter, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Nuria Sebastian-Galles, Melanie Soderstrom, Ingmar Visser, Connor Waddell, Stephanie Wermelinger, Leher Singh
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