About Dr. Kraebel
Dr. Kraebel is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department of SUNY Cortland and has been teaching and conducting developmental research at Cortland for the past four years. Dr. Kraebel received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Binghamton University in 1999 where she studied differences in learning and memory using animal models. Dr. Kraebel then spent a year conducting post doctoral research at the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities in New York City. During this time she studied developmental perception in infants from 2 to 9 months of age. Dr. Kraebel then returned to Binghamton University and spent 3 years working as both a Research Associate and Project Director for the Binghamton Infant and Child Studies Project. This project was aimed at assessing developmental cognition in 3- and 5-month-old infants.
During her research career, Dr. Kraebel has published extensively in national psychology journals. A list of her publications can be found here. She has presented her research at over 20 national and international psychology conferences.
Since her appointment to Cortland in 2003, Dr. Kraebel has been awarded multiple internal research grants such as the Summer Research Fellowship, the Faculty Research Program grant and Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (to promote undergraduate involvement in research) and Research Travel grants.
Recently, Dr. Kraebel was awarded a $156,500 federal grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct her research on infant learning. Dr. Kraebel is the first member of the Psychology Department to receive such a prestigious grant and is only the second faculty member in the history of Cortland to receive funding from NIH.
Project #: 1RO3HD048420-01A2
Grant title: Infants’ Use of Intersensory Cues in Operant Learning
Section: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development