Projects

This project uses EEG to explore the existence of beta bursts (i.e. functional activity related to movement) in the infant brain, and how these may develop over time.

This project uses eye-tracking, behavioural observation, and questionnaires to explore how the presence of infant cleft lip influences adult gaze and perceptions of infants, and how this may influence early parent-infant interactions.

This is a longitudinal project focused on the long-term effects of early social adversity on social, affective, cognitive, and behavioural outcomes in macaques, and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying these relationships. Naturalistic observation, structured behavioural tasks, and MRI (anatomical, diffusion, rs-functional) are being utlized to assess brain and behavioural development from pre-puberty, across adolescence, into early adulthood.

Developmental EEG and eye-tracking research focused on how affect-biased attention and behavioural inhibition influence the risk for anxiety in early childhood.

Developmental EEG and eye-tracking research on the perception of facial cues (facial expressions and gaze shifts) in infants and young children, in humans and non-human primates. The studies focus on how sensorimotor representations develop in the infant brain, including the role of early social experience, and how atypical early attention biases to facial expressions may increase risk for socioemotional problems. Supported by a Medical Research Council Studentship and Marie Curie Individual Fellowship.