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Scott A. Adler
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Infants' visual, attentional and
perceptual development from a neuroscience perspective. Specific
topics include the relation between various cognitive processes in
young infants' formation of future-oriented expectations for the
spatial, temporal, and content information of visual events; the
interface between visual expectations and memory processes; development
of mechanisms for selective attention and visual search; development of
object recognition; and the processes involved in infants' control and
execution of eye movements.
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Ellen Bialystok
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Language and cognitive development,
literacy, and bilingualism and the relationship between these three.
Development of attention in cognition and the acquisition of literacy
and other symbolic skills. Primary research focus is on the cognitive
effects of biliingualism across the lifespan, from early childhood to
older age, using behavioural, clinical, and neuroimaging techniques.
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Joanna Blake
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The development of language and
cognition. Prelinguistic development and the relation of babbling,
gestures and sensorimotor abilities during infancy to the acquisition
of language. Phylogenetic continuity in precursors to language.
Cognitive correlates of language impairment.
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Nicholas Cepeda
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Life-span
developmental changes in factors that underlie cognitive
flexibility. Working memory, inhibition, and processing speed.
Neural and behavioral measures of executive control and error
processing. Using cognitive psychology to optimize learning and
retention of educational materials. Distributed practice, testing and
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Vinod Goel
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Cognitive science and cognitive
neuroscience. Understanding the cognitive and neurophysiological
structures and process underlying human reasoning and problem solving
abilities. Verbal protocol analysis studies of normal and patient
populations, computational modeling, and neuroimaging techniques
involving Postron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (FMRI). Bridging the "gap" between cognitive and
neurophysiological vocabularies.
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Janice Johnson
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Cognitive development, individual
differences, and cognitive process analysis. Culture-fair assessment of
cognitive capacity in mainstream and special developmental samples
(e.g., deaf, gifted, ESL, language delayed); children’s intuitive
reasoning in mathematics; measurement of executive functions in
children and adults; cognitive style and language processing;
cognitive-developmental factors in metaphor comprehension; mental
arousal/motivation as factors in cognitive performance.
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Maria Legerstee
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The way that social and cognitive
factors interact in the developmental process. Infants' ability to
differentiate between people and objects (animate/inanimate
distinction); the infants developing understanding of self (the
ontogeny of self recognition and consciousness); the interactions
infants with and without Down syndrome have with their mothers; and the
effect mothers' emotional states have on their infants cognitive and
social functioning.
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Juan Pascual-Leone
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Cognitive processes; neuropsychology
of event-related brain potentials; developmental processes; measurement
of mental attentional capacity; human learning, individual differences
and styles; infancy, adulthood and aging. Logical methods of task
analysis and constructive epistemology; a neo-Piagetian approach to
cognitive processes, intelligence/cognitive style, development and its
neuropsychology, semantic psycholinguistics and adult development.
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Anne E. Russon
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Comparative/evolutionary studies of
nonhuman primates, especially the great apes (orangutans, chimpanzees)
and especially cognitive development. Major topics of interest
include: imitation and other forms of social learning, tool use,
ecological problem solving (arboreal and foraging problems), and the
evolution of primate and great ape intelligence. Field studies of
various facets of orangutan intelligence and cognitive ecology in
free-ranging ex-captive orangutans in Indonesian Borneo.
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Stuart G. Shanker
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Professor Shanker has recently been
awarded a private donation from the Harris Foundation to direct the
Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative (MEHRI) at York University
. Research being conducted at MEHRI is broadly focused on understanding
how parent-child relationships shape children's social/emotional and
brain development. MEHRI is creating a body of research that explores
the critical role of emotion in the evolution and development of
language, intelligence, social skills and intelligence. It is
particularly involved in studying these processes in children with
developmental disorders. This work has been extended to include the
study of parenting behavior in nonhuman primates.
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