Draft:Haley A. Vlach

Haley A. Vlach is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an investigator at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Her research is centered on children’s thinking and learning. Her work examines several cognitive processes, such as children’s memory; word learning and language development; categorization; generalization/transfer of learning; and conceptual development.

Biography
Vlach received her BS in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. She continued her education at the University of California, Los Angeles where she completed her M.A. and her Ph.D. Vlach joined the faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. Her research is currently funded by several agencies and foundations, such as the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

Representative Awards

 * Boyd McCandless Award, APA Div. 7, early career award in developmental psychology, 2020
 * James S. McDonnell Foundation Human Cognition Scholar Award, 2018
 * SRCD Early Career Contribution Award, early career award in developmental science, 2017
 * William Chase Award, early career award in cognitive science, 2015

Representative Publications

 * Vlach, H.A., Sandhofer, C.M., & Kornell, N. (2008). The spacing effect in children’s memory and category induction. Cognition, 109(1), 163-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.013
 * Vlach, H.A., & Sandhofer, C.M. (2012). Fast mapping across time: Memory processes support children’s retention of learned words. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(46). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00046
 * Vlach, H.A., & Johnson, S.P. (2013). Memory constraints on infants’ cross-situational statistical learning. Cognition, 127(3), 375-382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.02.015
 * Vlach, H.A. (2014). The spacing effect in children's generalization of knowledge: Allowing children time to forget promotes their ability to learn. Child Development Perspectives, 8, 163-168. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12079
 * Vlach, H.A. (2019). Learning to remember words: Memory constraints as double-edged sword mechanisms of language development. Child Development Perspectives, 13(3), 159-165. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12337