Rene Pierpont

610 Psychology Bldgs University of Wisconsin-Madison Dept of Psychology (WJ Brogden Hall) 1202 West Johnson Street Madison, WI 53706-1696 E-Mail: Phone: (608) 262-1564 Fax: (608) 262-4029

Waisman Center Room 469 1500 Highland Ave. Madison, WI 53705

Graduate Student in Psychology , University of Wisconsin - Madison

M.S in Psychology, 2005, University of Wisconsin
B.S. in Linguistics, 2002, Georgetown University

Research Statement:

I am a graduate student at UW - Madison with an individualized major spanning developmental, cognitive and clinical areas within psychology. My primary focus is language and cognitive development in children with developmental disabilities.

For my dissertation research I am conducting a study to investigate the basic language profile of children and young adults with Noonan syndrome. To see a webpage that describes this project, click here.

In previous research I have examined the cognitive and neural correlates of Specific Language Impairment (SLI).

Publications:

Pierpont, E. I., Ellis Weismer, S., Roberts, A. E., Tworog-Dube, E., Pierpont, M.E., Mendelsohn, N. J., Seidenberg, M.S. (under revision) The language phenotye of individuals with Noonan syndrome: contributions of nonlinguistic factors and relation to literacy. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.

Pierpont, E. I., Pierpont, M. E., Mendelsohn, N. J., Roberts, A. E., Tworog-Dube, E., Seidenberg, M. S. (2009) Genotype differences in cognitive functioning in Noonan syndrome. Genes, Brain and Behavior 8(3), 275-282

Ullman, M. T. and Pierpont, E. I. (2005) Specific Language Impairment is not specific to language: the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis. Cortex, 41 (3), 399-43

Presentations:

Pierpont, E. I., Ellis Weismer, S., Roberts, A. E., Tworog-Dube, E., Pierpont, M.E., Mendelsohn, N. J., Seidenberg, M.S. (2008) Risk Factors for Communication Impairments in Children and Adolescents with Noonan Syndrome.Paper presented at the Gatlinburg Conference on Research & Theory in Intellectual & Developmental Disorders. New Orleans, LA.

Pierpont, E. I. (2007) Communication and learning in Noonan syndrome. Invited Workshop at the annual meeting of The Noonan Syndrome Support Group. Baltimore, M.D.

Pierpont, E. I., Seidenberg, M. S. and Pierpont, M. E. (2006) Development of communication and adaptive skills in children with Noonan syndrome. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome and Noonan Syndrome. Washington, D.C.

Pierpont, E. I. and Seidenberg, M. S. (2005) Language and auditory sequence processing: individual differences in memory for serial order. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Toronto, ON.