Dr. Celia Brownell |
Early Social
Development Lab
Dr. Celia Brownell studies how
young children become social partners. She is especially interested in
the origins and early development of peer cooperation and how that
relates to emerging understanding of self and others. |
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Dr. Mark Strauss |
Cognitive
Development Center
Dr. Mark Strauss researches the
thought process and knowledge of autistics and of toddlers. Many
questions are explored, such as: can autistics learn to discern human
emotion? Why are toddlers that are 7 to 8 months old able to
differentiate women and men? |
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Dr. Jana Iverson |
Infant
Communication Lab
The
studies conducted in the Infant Communication Lab focus on infants’
developing communication abilities. Specifically, we are interested in
when and how infants begin to use gestures to communicate, and how their
use of gestures relates to their developing language abilities. |
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Dr. Suzanne Curtin |
Speech Development
Lab
Studies
focus on what babies pay attention to when spoken to and how they use
this information to figure out words. Dr. Suzanne Curtin is
especially interested in how infants combine different types of
information in ways that allow them to figure out language. This
lab tries to find infants' speech ability and those of adults as well
(new language learning ability). |
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Dr. Jennifer Ganger |
Twin Lab
Dr. Jennifer Ganger studies
the communication and language
development between identical and fraternal
twins. Her studies focus on children
between the ages of two and six over a span
of about two years. This information
is compared to children who do not have
twins. |
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Dr.
David Rakison |
Infant Cognition Lab
Dr. David Rakison examines how and when
infants and toddlers develop concepts and categories for the world
around them. He is particularly interested in how children learn the
properties of animates and inanimates that can be seen intermittently such as functions and
motions.
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