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Michael Akiyama, Professor, Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan- Dearborn

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Theories of cognitive and language development; information processing strategies in children and adults; cross-linguistic study of sentence comprehension and production; experimental impacts on adult cognitive development; developmental psychology; life-span developmental psychology; developmental psycholinguistics; cognitive development; psychology of aging

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, 1977
  • ME, Educational Psychology, University of Tokyo, 1970
  • BE, Educational Psychology, University of Tokyo, 1968

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

  • Rackham Faculty Research Grant, 1989-1991
  • National Research Service Award, Department of Health and Human Services, 1984-1986
  • Associates Funds, University of Oklahoma, 1983
  • Travel Grant, University of Oklahoma Research Council, 1980, 1982
  • Summer Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences, 1979

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

  • "Self perceived competencies and depression among middle school students in Japan and the United States" (with C.A. King and K.A. Elling), Journal of Early Adolescence, 16, 192-210, 1996.
  • "A spatial component in the use of count nouns among English speakers and Japanese speakers of English as a second language" (with N. Williams), Language Learning, 46, 217-321, 1996.
  • "Naming as a function of linguistic form-class and object categories" (with A.S. Wilcox), Journal of Child Language, 20, 419-435, 1993.
  • "Cross-linguistic contrasts of verification and answering among children," Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 21, 67-85, 1992.
  • "Language Development and Cognition." (In T. Fujinaga, ed., Chapter 6), Contemporary Developmental Psychology. (pp. 95-106, in Japanese). Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1992.
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