The typical & atypical development of social & cognitive skills in children over the early years, particularly with respect to structural & functional brain development.
Elected 2011
Experimental and theoretical psychology: evolutionary, developmental and cultural origins of cognitive processes; animal cognition; social cognition; social learning; imitation
Cognitive psychology; Face perception; Interactions between computational, experimental and applied problems in psychology
Neural network models of human learning, memory and development in linguistic, semantic and mathematical cognition; Complementary learning systems in the brain and the effects of brain damage on cognition