Bahrick, Lorraine
- Distinguished University Professor, Psychology , College of Arts, Sciences & Education
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Overview
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- Dr. Lorraine E. Bahrick, Ph.D. is the Director of the Infant Development Lab and Professor of Psychology at FIU. She earned her B.A. from Hampshire College and her Ph.D. in Experimental/Cognitive Psychology from Cornell University. She conducts research focusing on the early development of attention, perception, learning and memory for social and nonsocial events in typically developing infants and children as well as in children of atypical development. Dr. Bahrick's research is federally funded and has appeared in top journals in her field including Psychological Bulletin, Developmental Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Infant Behavior and Development, and Developmental Psychobiology.
research interests
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Development of multisensory perception, selective attention, social, and language functioning in infants, toddlers, and children of typical and atypical development.
New methods for assessing individual differences in multisensory attention skills (sustaining attention, shifting attention, matching audible and visual events) in infants, children, and adults.
Understanding developmental cascades: How basic attention skills in infancy serve as building blocks for later language and social development, and in turn, school readiness (e.g. self-regulation and preliteracy skills).
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2022Intersensory Matching of Faces and Voices in Infancy Predicts Language Outcomes in Young ChildrenFull Text via DOI: 10.1037/dev0001375 Web of Science: 000783955100001
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2019Intersensory redundancy promotes infant detection of prosody in infant-directed speech. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 183:295-309.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.02.008 Web of Science: 000466259000019
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2019Effects of multimodal synchrony on infant attention and heart rate during events with social and nonsocial stimuli. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 178.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2018.10.006 Web of Science: 000458347300018
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2018Assessing Individual Differences in the Speed and Accuracy of Intersensory Processing in Young Children: The Intersensory Processing Efficiency Protocol. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 54.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/dev0000575 Web of Science: 000451033100002
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2018The Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol (MAAP): Characterizing Individual Differences in Multisensory Attention Skills in Infants and Children and Relations With Language and Cognition. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 54.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/dev0000594 Web of Science: 000451033100001
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2018Infants Discriminate the Affective Expressions of their Peers: The Roles of Age and Familiarization Time. INFANCY. 23.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/infa.12246 Web of Science: 000440923100004
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2017The intersensory redundancy hypothesis: Extending the principle of unimodal facilitation to prenatal development. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY. 59:910-915.
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2016A Systems View of Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Communication. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 52:556-571.
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2016Enhanced Attention to Speaking Faces Versus Other Event Types Emerges Gradually Across Infancy. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 52:1705-1720.
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2015Cross-cultural evidence for multimodal motherese: Asian Indian mothers' adaptive use of synchronous words and gestures. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 129:110-126.
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2014Intersensory Redundancy Hinders Face Discrimination in Preschool Children: Evidence for Visual Facilitation. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 50:414-421.
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2014Learning to Attend Selectively: The Dual Role of Intersensory Redundancy. CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 23:414-420.
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2014Neural correlates of intersensory processing in 5-month-old infants. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY. 56:355-372.
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2013The Development of Face Perception in Infancy: Intersensory Interference and Unimodal Visual Facilitation. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 49:1919-1930.
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2013Young Infants Match Facial and Vocal Emotional Expressions of Other Infants. INFANCY. 18:E97-E111.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/infa.12017 Web of Science: 000326032400006
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2012On the Origins of Disorganized Attachment and Internal Working Models: Paper I. A Dyadic Systems Approach. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES. 22:253-272.
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2012On the Origins of Disorganized Attachment and Internal Working Models: Paper II. An Empirical Microanalysis of 4-Month Mother-Infant Interaction. PSYCHOANALYTIC DIALOGUES. 22:352-374.
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2012The Role of Intersensory Redundancy in the Emergence of Social Referencing in 5 1/2-Month-Old Infants. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 48:1-9.
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2010Increasing task difficulty enhances effects of intersensory redundancy: testing a new prediction of the Intersensory Redundancy Hypothesis. DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE. 13:731-737.
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2010The Effects of Intersensory Redundancy on Attention and Memory: Infants' Long-Term Memory for Orientation in Audiovisual Events. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 46:428-436.
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2007The development of infant discrimination of affect in multimodal and unimodal stimulation: The role of intersensory redundancy. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 43:238-252.
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2006Intersensory redundancy educates selective attention in bobwhite quail embryos. DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE. 9:604-615.
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2006The impact of stress on mothers' memory of a natural disaster. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-APPLIED. 12:142-154.
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2005Stressing Memory: Long-Term Relations Among Children's Stress, Recall and Psychological Outcome Following Hurricane Andrew. JOURNAL OF COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT. 6:529-545.Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0604_5 Web of Science: 000207615400005
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2005The development of infant learning about specific face-voice relations. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 41:541-552.
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2004Infants' perception of rhythm and tempo in unimodal and multimodal stimulation: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE. 4.Full Text via DOI: 10.3758/CABN.4.2.137 Web of Science: 000208955400005
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2004Intersensory redundancy guides the development of selective attention, perception, and cognition in infancy. CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00283.x Web of Science: 000221629700003
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2004Intersensory redundancy enhances memory in bobwhite quail embryos. INFANCY. 5.Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0503_1 Web of Science: 000223050000001
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2004Weathering the storm: Children's long-term recall of Hurricane Andrew. MEMORY. 12.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/09658210244000397 Web of Science: 000186682600008
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2002Intersensory redundancy facilitates discrimination of tempo in 3-month-old infants. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY. 41.Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.10049 Web of Science: 000179597100003
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2002Attention and memory for faces and actions in infancy: The salience of actions over faces in dynamic events. CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 73.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00495 Web of Science: 000179573300001
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2002Generalization of learning in three-and-a-half-month-old infants on the basis of amodal relations. CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 73.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00431 Web of Science: 000175692000001
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2002Intersensory redundancy facilitates prenatal perceptual learning in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) embryos. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 38.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037//0012-1649.38.1.15 Web of Science: 000173261000002
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2002Intersensory redundancy guides early perceptual and cognitive development. ADVANCES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR, VOL 30. 30.Web of Science: 000179208500004
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2001Increasing specificity in perceptual development: Infants' detection of nested levels of multimodal stimulation. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 79.Full Text via DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2000.2588 Web of Science: 000169313700002
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2001Intersensory Redundancy and 7-Month-Old Infants' Memory for Arbitrary Syllable-Object Relations. INFANCY. 2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0202_7 Web of Science: 000204989800007
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2001Perceiving the Real World: Infants' Detection of and Memory for Social Information. INFANCY. 2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0204_05 Web of Science: 000204990000005
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2001The Development of Visual-Tactual Perception of Objects: Amodal Relations Provide the Basis for Learning Arbitrary Relations. INFANCY. 2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0201_4 Web of Science: 000204989600004
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2001The Salience of Multimodal Sensory Stimulation in Early Development: Implications for the Issue of Ecological Validity. INFANCY. 2.Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0204_04 Web of Science: 000204990000004
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2000Intersensory redundancy guides attentional selectivity and perceptual learning in infancy. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 36.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037//0012-1649.36.2.190 Web of Science: 000087636700005
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2000A study of multimodal motherese: The role of temporal synchrony between verbal labels and gestures. CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 71.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00197 Web of Science: 000089443600010
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1998The effects of stress on young children's memory for a natural disaster. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-APPLIED. 4.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037//1076-898X.4.4.308 Web of Science: 000077618300002
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1998Intermodal perception of adult and child faces and voices by infants. CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 69.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1132264 Web of Science: 000077126400002
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1998Intersensory redundancy facilitates learning of arbitrary relations between vowel sounds and objects in seven-month-old infants. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 69.Full Text via DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1998.2438 Web of Science: 000074330400003
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1997The effect of retrieval cues on visual preferences and memory in infancy: Evidence for a four-phase attention function. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 67.Full Text via DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1997.2399 Web of Science: A1997YC15400001
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1997Do infants perceive invariant tempo and rhythm in auditory-visual events?. INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT. 20.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(97)90006-0 Web of Science: 000070994300006
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1996Development of visual self-recognition in infancy. ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 8.Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/s15326969eco0803_1 Web of Science: A1996WB63200001
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1995INFANTS DISCRIMINATION OF BIMODAL EVENTS ON THE BASIS OF RHYTHM AND TEMPO. BRITISH JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-835X.1995.tb00676.x Web of Science: A1995RW99800002
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1995INFANT MEMORY FOR OBJECT MOTION ACROSS A PERIOD OF 3 MONTHS - IMPLICATIONS FOR A 4-PHASE ATTENTION FUNCTION. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 59.Full Text via DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1995.1017 Web of Science: A1995RE19100002
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199450 YEARS OF LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND LANGUAGE DOMINANCE IN BILINGUAL HISPANIC IMMIGRANTS. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL. 123.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.123.3.264 Web of Science: A1994PA32100003
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1994THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFANTS SENSITIVITY TO ARBITRARY INTERMODAL RELATIONS. ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 6.Full Text via DOI: 10.1207/s15326969eco0602_2 Web of Science: A1994NL47300002
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1993MAINTENANCE OF FOREIGN-LANGUAGE VOCABULARY AND THE SPACING EFFECT. PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 4.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1993.tb00571.x Web of Science: A1993LU79500011
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1992INFANTS PERCEPTUAL DIFFERENTIATION OF AMODAL AND MODALITY-SPECIFIC AUDIO-VISUAL RELATIONS. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. 53.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0022-0965(92)90048-B Web of Science: A1992HL56900006
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1988INTERMODAL LEARNING IN INFANCY - LEARNING ON THE BASIS OF 2 KINDS OF INVARIANT RELATIONS IN AUDIBLE AND VISIBLE EVENTS. CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 59.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/1130402 Web of Science: A1988L872200018
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1988CLASSIFICATION OF BIMODAL ENGLISH AND SPANISH LANGUAGE PASSAGES BY INFANTS. INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT. 11.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0163-6383(88)90014-8 Web of Science: A1988R213600003
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1987INFANTS INTERMODAL PERCEPTION OF 2 LEVELS OF TEMPORAL STRUCTURE IN NATURAL EVENTS. INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT. 10.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0163-6383(87)90039-7 Web of Science: A1987DX31300001
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1985DETECTION OF INTERMODAL PROPRIOCEPTIVE VISUAL CONTINGENCY AS A POTENTIAL BASIS OF SELF-PERCEPTION IN INFANCY. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 21.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037//0012-1649.21.6.963 Web of Science: A1985AVK6900005
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1983INFANTS PERCEPTION OF SUBSTANCE AND TEMPORAL SYNCHRONY IN MULTIMODAL EVENTS. INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT. 6.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(83)90241-2 Web of Science: A1983SM08600003
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Book
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Editorial Material
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2013Body Perception: Intersensory Origins of Self and Other Perception in Newborns. CURRENT BIOLOGY. R1039-R1041.
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2001The global array: Not new to infant researchers. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES.Web of Science: 000170177900010
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Note
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1994INFANTS SENSITIVITY TO ARBITRARY OBJECT ODOR PAIRINGS. INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/0163-6383(94)90040-X Web of Science: A1994QN15300014
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Proceedings Paper
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1998Effects of stress on children's memory for a natural disaster. EYEWITNESS MEMORY.Web of Science: 000071967200003
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Review
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2013The concept of homology as a basis for evaluating developmental mechanisms: Exploring selective attention across the life-span. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY. 76-83.
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2008Infant discrimination of faces in naturalistic events: Actions are more salient than faces. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 983-996.
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2001The intersensory origins of word comprehension: an ecological-dynamic systems view. DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1467-7687.00143 Web of Science: 000170366500002
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2000The development of infant intersensory perception: Advantages of a comparative convergent-operations approach. PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN.Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.126.2.260 Web of Science: 000087093500004
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Castellanos, Irina, Infants’ Selective Attention to Faces and Prosody of Speech: The Roles of Intersensory Redundancy and Exploratory Time 2011
- Molina, Mariana V, The Role of Contingency and Gaze Direction in the Emergence of Social Referencing 2011
- Argumosa, Melissa Ann, Development of Face Recognition: Infancy to Early Childhood 2010
- Castellanos, Irina, Intersensory redundancy educates human infants' attention to the prosody of speech 2007
- Cigales, Maricel, Memory for contingent versus noncontingent events 1994
- Alberga, Linda, Infants' detection of synchrony between sounds and pauses in the movement of an object 1994
Research
principal investigator on
- Intersensory Processing, Developmental Trajectories, and Longitudinal Outcomes awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2019 - 2024
- Multisensory Development: New Measures and a Collaborative Database awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2019 - 2024
- Intersensory Perception of Children with Autism and Typically Developing Children. awarded by Dan Marino Foundation 2006 - 2022
- Intersensory Processing, Developmental Trajectories, and Logitudinal Outcomes awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2013 - 2019
- Intersensory Processing, Developmental Trajectories, and Longitudinal Outcomes awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2013 - 2018
- Intersensory Perception of Social Events: Typical and Atypical Development awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2010 - 2017
- Looking Ahead: Previous Gaze Durations Predict Next Gaze Durations in Infancy awarded by National Science Foundation 2013 - 2016
- Development of Intermodal Perception of Social Events: Infancy to Childhood awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2008 - 2013
- Attention to Social and Nonsocial Events in Children with Autism. awarded by Autism Speaks 2007 - 2011
- Audiovisual Interactions in Categorization. awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2007 - 2010
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