Members
Kang Lee
Dr. Lee studies the development of moral cognition, focusing on deception, and social perception, focusing on face processing.
Laura Cirelli
Dr. Cirelli studies how engaging in musical activities can be a social and an emotional experience for infants.
Amy Finn
Dr. Finn studies how cognitive and brain development support or constrain learning outcomes.
Patricia Ganea
Dr. Ganea studies children's learning and early communication, and their ability to engage in hypothetical thinking.
Christina Starmans
Dr. Starmans studies the development of social and moral reasoning in infants, children, and adults.
David Haley
Dr. Haley studies the parent-infant relationship: how do parents and infants influence each other's minds?
Charles Helwig
Dr. Helwig studies the development of moral and social judgments from the preschool years through adulthood.
Jennifer Jenkins
Dr. Jenkins studies the influence of marital, sibling, and parent-child relationships on children’s early cognitive development.
Elizabeth Johnson
Dr. Johnson studies perceptual, cognitive, and social aspects of speech and language development in infants and young children.
Paul Bloom
Dr. Bloom studies topics such as the development of moral thought, intuitions about personal identity, and the curious appeal of certain artworks.
Tina Malti
Dr. Malti studies social-emotional development and mental health in children and adolescents.
Daphne Maurer
Dr. Maurer studies how perception develops beginning from birth, and how it is altered when there is visual deprivation from cataracts.
Samuel Ronfard
Dr. Ronfard studies how cognitive and cultural factors shape social learning at different points of development.
Meg Schlichting
Dr. Schlichting studies how brain development impacts memory, attention, and reasoning in children and teens.
Jessica Sommerville
Dr. Sommerville studies the development of social cognition in infancy.
Mark Schmuckler
Dr. Schmuckler studies infant perceptual-motor development and adult music cognition.
Christina Starmans
Dr. Starmans studies the development of social and moral reasoning in infants, children, and adults.
Doug VanderLaan
Dr. Vanderlaan studies gender expression across the lifespan and sexual orientation development.
Myrto Grigoroglou
Dr. Grigoroglou studies language acquisition, communication development and the relation of language and cognition.
Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden
Dr. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden studies the neural and behavioural indices of how infants, children, and adults listen to music and language.
Yang Wu
Dr. Wu studies how infants and children reason about emotion.
