Linda B. Smith, PhD., Chancellor's Professor
smith4@indiana.edu
CV, Faculty Webpage
Research Interests: Perceptual and cognitive development in early childhood; classification and catergorization; interactions between perception and language.
Char Wozniak
chwoznia@indiana.edu
Research Interests: Children are born curious, like scientists, actively exploring their world. They spontaneously experiment - they smell, tatse, bite, coo, cry, giggle, blow, hum, and touch - they shake, punch, squeeze, push, cruch, rub, and try to pull things apart. I am intensely interested in observing children and exploring the many ways they learn about their world.
Kelly Irwin
kelirwin@iu.edu
Research Interests: I am fascinated by the way children learn about the world around them. From the very beginning, they soak up everything about their surroundings using every single one of their senses. I love observing and interacting with children as they learn and grow.
Evelina Dineva
edineva@iu.edu
Swapnaa Jayaraman
swapnaa@indiana.edu
CV, Webpage
Research Interests: Development is all about change: macro changes like motor milestones and micro changes like neural organization, connectivity and growth. When and how do these changes occur? What are the mechanisms behind these changes? What factors affect these changes? These are questions that developmental scientists are trying to answer in small and large ways. I am particularly interested in how infants perceive, process, and understand faces, and how age, experience, and the environment affect these processes. I take both neurological as well as behavioral approaches to answering these questions.
Erin Anderson
ema1@iu.edu
CV
Research Interests: My research investigates infants' early visual experience with inter-object relations. Using head-mounted cameras to capture the infant's point of view in naturalistic settings, we can understand what the distribution of spatial relations is in the environment and what roles age, context, and parents play in shaping these.
Sara Benham
sjbenham@iu.edu
CV
Research Interests: My research focuses on the relationship between lexical and phonological bases of word learning in children with typical and atypical language development. I am particularly interested in detecting principles of organization and structure in word and sound learning using network-based approaches.
Jeremy Borjon
jborjon@iu.edu
CV
Research Interests: My developing research program is aimed at understanding how the autonomic nervous system shapes and guides behavior during development. Using a combination of wireless physiology sensors, motion capture, and head-mounted eye tracking, we will be able to computationally reconstruct and dissect the naturally occurring behavior of human children and their parents.
Hadar Karmazyn
hkarmazy@iu.edu
CV
Research Interests: I am interested in understanding how children's visual processing relates to language development.
Linger Xu
txu@iu.edu
CV
Research Interests: My research focuses on studying the development of interpersonal coordination at sensory-motor level. We conduct infant-parent interaction experiments, use state-of-art multimodal wearable sensors and develop novel time-series analysis methods and computational models. I also use social robotic agents to investigate the effects of different real-time coordinated behaviors in human-robot interaction studies.
Hiroki Yamamoto
hiyama@iu.edu
CV
Research Interests: I am interested in the relation between multimodal infant-caregiver interaction and infants' visual attention. By using head-mounted cameras or head-mounted eye trackers, we can understand how infants' learning environments are shaped during real-time interaction.
