developmental psychology

I started my PhD in October 2014 - overall, I have worked in academic research for almost 8 years - am I therefore an erudite school girl? Or, since I published my first English-written paper in 2018 - and I have only existed for 4 research years - may I be considered just a scholarly toddler?

In my job, I have to sit down children, put a neoprene cap on their head, fill 20-30 electrodes with squishy gel and have them watch some stuff on a screen while I record the brain activity.

Language development is the story of the development of language. Social development regards the development of social interaction. Motor development involves the motor system… What about cognitive development, what is it that humans and animals develop?

The Introduction of the Introduction I am a visual thinker, and a graphomaniac with a passion for notebooks - the analog ones. During my studies, I wrote tons of notebooks about the most disparate topics.

Abstract Orienting to others is crucial for learning about the world. Infants show a marked bias for attending to faces, however, we do not know much about the online changes of their attention to faces during the first 3 years.

Throwback of a brief talk I gave during the first lockdown (is it already two years ago?) Here I talk of one of the projects I helped to kickstart, the Safe Passage Follow Up in Cape Town, South Africa.

A defective attention to faces and eyes characterizes Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) however the role of contingent information - such …

Humans interact by means of the gaze from the earliest months of life: an infant recognizes eye contact and tends to follow the gaze of …