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David Barner
Dr. David Barner’s research focuses on language and conceptual development in children and the interface between language structure and meaning.
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Leslie Carver
Dr. Leslie Carver studies the brain basis of cognitive and social developmental change in the transition from infancy to the early toddler years. In addition, her research examines the changes in the brain that allow long-term memory to develop.
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Gail Heyman
Dr. Gail Heyman studies social and cognitive development – with a focus on children's reasoning about people. Her research looks at how children present information to others, and how they evaluate information that others present. Her other research interests include, beliefs related to achievement motivation, the relation between language and person perception, and flexibility in children's thinking.
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Adena Schachner
Dr. Adena Schachner's work focuses on the development of social cognition; specifically, how infants, children, and adults infer mental states (like intentions, goals and preferences) to explain others’ actions and to understand the objects that people own and create.
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Caren Walker
Dr. Caren Walker’s research explores how children learn and reason about the causal structure of the world. In particular, her work focuses on how very young learners are able to acquire abstract representations that extend beyond their observations, simply by thinking.