Linda B. Smith, PhD., Chancellor's Professor
smith4@indiana.edu
CV, Faculty Webpage
Research Interests: Perceptual and cognitive development in early childhood; classification and categorization; 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.
Lexi Colwell
alecolwe@iu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in how children of all ages learn. I have specific interests in language development and children's informal STEM learning.
Namitha Rajasekhar
nsrajase@iu.edu
Research interests: I am passionate about developmental psychology and learning how children interact with their surroundings. The lab's hollistic approach to studying children's development across different environmental contexts fascinates me.
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.
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.
Yannan Hu
CV
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Hadar Karmazyn-Raz
hkarmazy@iu.edu
CV
Research Interests: My research fouses on the underlying learning mechanism of infants and machines, who are novices in our noisy cluttered world, and yet trying to make connections and knowledge structures for day-to-day functions.
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.
