Research Summary: How does experience impact and influence development throughout the first years of life? My research focuses on how behavioral interventions such as simulated reaching experience affect young infant’s motor skills and behavior and perception of objects, people and actions.
The attainment of new motor milestones, e.g. reaching or walking, provides infants with new possibilities to explore their surroundings. Changing infant’s motor abilities allows us to identify how the growth of motor and cognitive skills are related. To investigate these issues I assess motor behavior, eye-gaze patterns and temperament in both cross-sectional and longitudinal samples of infants ranging from 2-months to 16-months of age.
