Keywords: cognitive development, word learning, attention, language acquisition, statistical learning, bilingualism

Keywords: gene-environment interplay, substance use, family relationships, adolescence, young adulthood, ethnic/racial minority, health disparities

In our lab, we investigate how infants and young children learn about the world around them. Current projects in the lab explore the development of curiosity, social cognition, and communication from 5 months to 7 years

Keywords: anxiety; children; adolescents; prevention; treatment; culture; diversity; minority; ethnicity

Keywords: computational approaches, developmental psychopathology, behavioral genetics and epigenetics, emotion and temperament, plasticity and change

Keywords: adolescence, romantic relationships, multidisciplinary research, developmental psychopathology, culture, health, technology, social media

visual perception and working memory, decoding visual information from EEG signals

Keywords: embodied cognition; language comprehension; embodied reading comprehension intervention (EMBRACE); cognitive neuroscience; joint action and mirror neuron system

Games for learning, STEM education, cognitive change, Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Reality (AR), Extended Realities (XR), Nutrition science, Efficacy related to XR experiences, Artificial Intelligence (AI)