Associate Professor, is a neuroscientist whose work focuses on understanding the intersection of anxiety, development and treatment.

• Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders (e.g., approach-avoidance, threat processing)
• Developmental and neural correlates of emotional flexibility
• Translational neuroscience research (e.g., fear and extinction learning, attention bias modification)

Professor, conducts community-based collaborative research to better understand the development of scientific thinking in early childhood, focusing on low-income minority children.

• Development of scientific thinking in infants, toddlers and preschoolers
• STEM as foundational focus for improving multiple areas of school readiness
• Technology in early childhood assessment

Professor, investigates emotion and early interaction (e.g., attachment) to better understand healthy and disturbed (e.g., autistic) development.

• Modeling real-time interaction and development
• Emotional, social, and language development
• Objective measurement of classroom dynamics
• Autism, hearing loss, and poverty

Associate Professor, investigates language, categorization, and social interaction in children and adults from typical and atypical populations in the laboratory, home, and preschool

• Automated measurement of language and movement
• Communication disorders (hearing loss, late talkers, autism)
• Language and thought

Associate Professor, conducts partnership-based research with early childhood programs to promote social-emotional skills, early learning, and school readiness.

• Preschool social-emotional adjustment
• School readiness and early school achievement
• Classroom interventions

Associate Professor, studies infant social cognitive development by examining individual differences in social perception in humans and nonhuman primates.

• Evolutionary developmental psychology
• Face perception & imitation
• Eye-tracking