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.
Minju Kim
mk159@iu.edu
Research Interests: Just as AI and computer vision help machines understand the world, I’m interested in using these technologies to better understand how we, as humans, perceive and learn. Specifically, I focus on studying how infants "see" and process visual information, with an interest in uncovering insights into early cognitive development.
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.
Yannan Hu
yannanh2@illinois.edu
Research Interests: My research investigates real-time behavioral and physiological dynamics during parent-child interactions and how these processes are related to children’s socioemotional functioning during infancy and early childhood. I am particularly interested in how interactive patterns and individual characteristics jointly shape the development of stress regulation.
Philip McAdams
pmcadam@iu.edu
Research Interests: Infant perception of the spatial and chromatic scene statistics of egocentric experience; infant scene perception; infant visual preferences and 'developmental aesthetics'; and perceptual and cognitive development in infancy and childhood, generally.
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.
Emily Yearling
eyearlin@iu.edu
CV
Research Interests: Memory development and its role in typical and atypical development.
