Principal Investigator
Linda B. Smith, PhD. Chancellor's Professor
Research Interests: Perceptual and cognitive development in early childhood; classification and categorization; interactions between perception and language.
Researchers
Eric Seemiller
Dr. Linda Smith
Brittany Alberts
Linger Xu
Erin Anderson
Hadar Karmazyn
Jeremy Borjon
Elizabeth Clerkin
Char Wozniak
Char Wozniak, Special Projects Manager
Research Interests: Children are born curious, like scientists, actively exploring their world. They spontaneously experiment - they smell, taste, bite, coo, cry, giggle, blow, hum and touch - they shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub and try to pull things apart. I am intensely interested in observing children and exploring the many ways they learn about their world.
Kelly Irwin, Lab Manager
Research Interests: I am fascinated by the way children learn about the world around them. From the very beginning, they soak up everything about their surroundings using every single one of their senses. I love observing and interacting with them as they explore and grow.
Swapnaa Jayaraman, Assistant Scientist
Research Interests: Development is all about change: macro changes like motor milestones and micro changes like neural organization, connectivity and growth. When and how do these changes occur? What are the mechanisms behind these changes? What factors affect these changes? These are questions that developmental scientists are trying to answer in small and large ways. I am particularly interested in how infants perceive, process, and understand faces, and how age, experience, and the environment affect these processes. I take both neurological as well as behavioral approaches to answering these questions.
Andres Mendez, Assistant Scientist
Research Interests: My current research studies how infants' first person views are coupled to behavior. This coupling defines the many of the challenges growing infants face. I am also interested in how these 'low-level' processes are connected to developmental outcomes such as attention and language development.
Jeremy Borjon, Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: My developing research program is aimed at understanding how the autonomic nervous system shapes and guides behavior during development. Using a combination of wireless physiology sensors, motion capture, and head-mounted eye tracking, we will be able to computationally reconstruct and dissect the naturally occurring behavior of human children and their parents.
Linger Xu, Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: My research focuses on studying the development of interpersonal coordination at sensory-motor level. We conduct infant-parent interaction experiments, use state-of-art multimodal wearable sensors and develop novel time-series analysis methods and computational models. I also use social robotic agents to investigate the effects of different real-time coordinated behaviors in human-robot interaction studies.
Erin Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow
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Research Interests: My research investigates infants' early visual experience with inter-object relations. Using head-mounted cameras to capture the infant's point of view in naturalistic settings, we can understand what the distribution of spatial relations is in the environment and what roles age, context, and parents play in shaping these.
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Research Interests: My research focuses on the relationship between lexical and phonological bases of word learning in children with typical and atypical language development. I am particularly interested in detecting principles of organization and structure in word and sound learning using network-based approaches.
Research Interests: I am interested in how young children learn object names, particularly how the visual statistics of children's everyday environments help them create mappings between visual objects and the words that refer to them. I am also interested in how skills such as visual processing, attention, and memory aid and impact word learning.
Research Interests: I am interested in understanding how children's visual processing relates to language development.
Chen Yu, University of Texas, Austin
Kelly Mix, University of Maryland
Larissa Samuelson, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
David Crandall, Indiana University, Bloomington
Jim Rehg, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Jason Gold, Indiana University, Bloomington
Rowan Candy, Indiana University, Bloomington
Alfredo Pereira, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Lei Yuan, University of Colorado, Boulder
Drew Abney, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Cincinnati
Viridiana Benitez, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Arizona State University
Lisa Byrge, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of North Florida
Lisa Cantrell,
Assistant Professor, Child Development Department, California State University, Sacramento
Paulo Carvalho,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Leonidas Doumas, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Caitlin Fausey, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
John Franchak, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University
Rima Hanania,
Researcher, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
Shohei Hidaka, Assistant Professor,
School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Thomas Hills, Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Steve Hockema, Senior Scientist and Partner, Aji, LLC
Hye-Won Hong, Professor, Psychology Department, California State University
Donald Katz, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology and Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University
Alan Kersten, Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University
Megumi Kuwabara, Assistant Professor, Child Development, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Jennifer Lanter, Dean of General Studies,
Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton, Wisconsin
Josita Maouene,
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Grand Valley State University
Teresa Mitchell,
Assistant Professor, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Jessica Montag,
Assistant Research Psychologist, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alfredo Pereira,
Adjunct Assistant Researcher, School of Psychology, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Richard Prather, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland
Brigette Ryalls, Associate Professor, Psycholgy Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Larissa Samuelson,
Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Catherine Sandhofer,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
Maria Sera, Professor,
Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
Nitya Sethuraman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Adam Sheya, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Connecticut
Lauren Slone, Assistant Professor, Psychology, Hope College, Holland, Michigan
Ji Son, Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles
Sandra Street, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
Umay Suanda, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Connecticut
Catalina Suarez-Rivera, Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, New York University
Catarina Vales, Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Amanda Walley, Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hanako Yoshida, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Houston
Lei Yuan, Assistant Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dan Yurovsky,
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago
Sara Benham, Postdoctoral Fellow
Elizabeth Clerkin, Postdoctoral Fellow
Hadar Karmazyn, Graduate Student
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