Jan 29, 1999

EXPERIENCE

Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA	1998-present
Member of the Research Staff

Stanford University, Stanford, CA	1998-present
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Stanford University, Stanford, CA	1997
Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of Psychology

ACADEMIC HISTORY

Stanford University, Stanford, CA	1996
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY	1990
B.A., Psychology, magna cum laude,

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, 1996

Stanford Graduate Research Opportunity Funds Dissertation Research Grant, 1995-1996

Stanford University Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1996

National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1991-1994

Stanford University Department of Psychology Fellowship, 1990-1991

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Independent Research Consultant and Programmer, 1990-present

Student Faculty Representative, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 1995-1996

Program Coordinator, Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Developmental Psychology, 1994

Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 1992, 1994

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Association for Computing Machinery, SIGCHI, 1998-present

American Psychological Association, 1994-present

American Psychological Society, 1991-present

Society for Research in Child Development, 1991-present

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MacOS, UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows 95

Authoring Environments: HyperCard, QuickTime, Macromedia Director, SuperCard

Programming Languages: C++, HTML, Perl, AppleScript, Pascal, Visual Basic for Applications

SOFTWARE

Pinto, J. P. (1996). XHAB (version 6.5): Experimental control software for MS-DOS [computer software]. Palo Alto, CA: Author.

Pinto, J. P. (1996). VideoHAB (version 0.6): Multimedia experimental control software for Macintosh [computer software]. Palo Alto, CA: Author.

Pinto, J. P. (1995). MacXHAB (version 1.4): Experimental control software for Macintosh [computer software]. Palo Alto, CA: Author.

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

Pinto, J. P., Fernald, A., McRoberts, G. W., & Cole, S. (in press). Reliability and validity in infant auditory preference procedures. Advances in Infancy Research.

Swingley, D., Pinto, J. P., & Fernald, A. (in press). Assessing the speed and accuracy of word recognition in infants. Advances in Infancy Research.

Fernald, A., Pinto, J. P., Swingley, D., Weinberg, A., & McRoberts, G. W. (1998). Rapid gains in speed of verbal processing by infants in the second year. Psychological Science, 9(3), 228-231.

Swingley, D., Pinto, J. P., & Fernald, A. (submitted). Continuous processing in word recognition at 24 months.

Pinto, J. P., Miners, L., & Fernald, A. (in preparation). Infants' sensitivity to prosodic and segmental repetition in speech.

Pinto, J. P., Asgari, M. A., Fernald, A., & Miners, L. (in preparation). Infants' and adults' perception of musical phrase structure.

Pinto, J. P., McRoberts, G. W., Fernald, A. & Cole, S. (in preparation). Assessing on-line observation errors in infant-controlled procedures.

McRoberts, G. W., Fernald, A., & Pinto, J. P. (in preparation). The development of infant sensitivity to pauses as markers for clause boundries in speech.

Swingley, D., Fernald, A., McRoberts, G. W., & Pinto, J. P. (in preparation). The role of grammatical functor words in speech to 18- and 24-month-old infants.

PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS

Ehrlich, S. M., Schiano, D. J., Sheridan, K. M., Beck, D. M., & Pinto, J. P. (1998, November). Facing the issues: Methods matter. Poster presented at the 39th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX.

Fernald, A., Pinto, J. P., Swingley, D., Perfors, A., Magnani, K., Bradley, A. (1998, April). Infants can recognize words using partial phonetic information. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Infant Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Swingley, D., Pinto, J. P., & Fernald, A. (1997, November). Continuous monitoring of the speech stream by 24-month-olds. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Pinto, J. P., Miners, L. M., & Fernald, A. (1997, April). Infants' sensitivity to repetition in speech. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Swingley, D., Pinto, J. P., & Fernald, A. (1997, April). The robust speed of one-year-olds' speech processing. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Fernald, A., Pinto, J. P., & Swingley, D. (1997, April). Developmental changes in the speed and accuracy of word recognition by infants from 12 to 24 months of age. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Pinto, J. P., Fernald, A., Cole, S., & McRoberts, G. W. (1996, December). Issues of reliability and validity in infant-controlled procedures using auditory stimuli. Paper presented at Evaluating methods used to investigate infant's language knowledge, Melbourne, Australia.

Fernald, A., Swingley, D., & Pinto, J. P. (1996, December). Using the auditory/visual matching procedure to measure speed of word recognition in infants. Paper presented at Evaluating methods used to investigate infant's language knowledge, Melbourne, Australia.

Fernald, A., Pinto, J. P., Swingley, D. (1996, September). Emerging understandings: Experimental research on the development of receptive language abilities in the second year. Paper presented at How to get into language: Approaches to bootstrapping in early language development, Berlin, Germany.

Fernald, A., Pinto, J. P., Swingley, D., & McRoberts, G. W. (1996, June). How infants in the second year get better at understanding words in speech. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, San Francisco, CA.

Pinto, J. P. (1996, May). Infants' sensitivity to repetition in speech. Paper presented at the annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Developmental Psychology, Palo Alto, CA.

Swingley, D., Fernald, A., McRoberts, G. W., & Pinto, J. P. (1995, November). Prosody, functors, and word recognition in young children. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Pinto, J. P. (1995, May). Assessing observation errors in infant-controlled procedures. Paper presented at the annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Developmental Psychology, Berkeley, CA.

Pinto, J. P. (1995, March). On-line errors in infant-controlled procedures: Implications for observer reliability and data validity. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.

Pinto, J. P. (1995, March). Infants' sensitivity to structure in music. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.

Pinto, J. P. (1994, April). Are 6-month-old infants truly sensitive to musical phrase structure? Paper presented at the annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Developmental Psychology, Palo Alto, CA.

Asgari, M., Pinto, J. P., & Fernald, A. (1993, March). Infants' sensitivity to musical phrase structure. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA.

Pinto, J. P. (1992, March). Infants' perception of musical phrase structure. Paper presented at the Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference on Developmental Psychology, Berkeley, CA.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Measurement of observer performance in observer-based research.

Cognitive, perceptual, and social development.

Language acquisition and early speech perception.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Stanford University Course Instructor in the the following:

Psych 130 - Development in Infancy (Spring 1998, Winter 1999)

Stanford University Teaching Assistant in the following:

Psych 060 - Statistical Methods, with Dr. Ewart Thomas (Head TA Spring 1996, Fall 1994)

Psych 070 - Brain and Behavior, with Dr. Russell Fernald (Fall 1995)

Psych 130 - Development in Infancy, with Dr. Anne Fernald (Head TA Spring 1995)

Psych 106 - Introduction to Cognitive Psychology, with Dr. Barbara Tversky (Winter 1995)

Psych 102 - Perception, with Dr. Brian Wandell (Winter 1993)

Psych 001 - Introduction to Psychology, with Dr. Anne Fernald (Spring 1992)

Psych 111 - Developmental Psychology, with Dr. John Flavell (Fall 1991)

I am prepared to teach the following courses:

Introductory Psychology

Statistical Methods

Development in Infancy

Cognitive and Perceptual Development

Introductory Perception

REFERENCES

Available upon request.