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Amber Martin is a Doctoral Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on the interplay between language acquisition and cognitive development, particularly in deaf children who experience language delays. She holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development.
Dr. Martin's work explores how delayed language exposure—such as in children who are deaf and lack access to sign language—affects cognition. She uses comparative approaches, studying signers of American Sign Language (ASL) and Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) to analyze spatial cognition, mental rotation, and other cognitive skills. Her research bridges developmental psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science, aiming to inform interventions for deaf children and understand typical developmental pathways.
Her publications include studies on age-of-acquisition effects on mental rotation, spatial constructions in bilingual ASL/English users, and language-cognition relationships. She advocates for ethical research addressing the 'forbidden experiment' of language deprivation in early childhood through observational studies of naturally occurring language delays.
Contact: am2631@hunter.cuny.edu, 68th Street North 613, New York.
