We’re excited to announce a recent publication by Grace Wallsinger, a PhD student in the BCD Lab. This paper, published in Developmental Psychobiology, explores how 6- and 9-month-old infants respond to faces from familiar and unfamiliar race groups. In our study, we found that 6-month-olds showed stronger brain responses to faces from race groups they […]
Starr Martin (Undergraduate Research Assistant) presented her poster at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota! Her poster demonstrated the effects of facial expression, situations, and sentence frames on preschool aged children’s ability to learn emotion words. 👶🧠
Maeve Boylan (Post-doc) and Grace Wallsinger (Graduate Student) presented their posters at the conference hosted by Vision Sciences Society (VSS). Maeve’s poster demonstrated how age and training conditions affect infants’ attention to objects. Grace’s poster demonstrated how race familiarity affects infants’ attention to faces. 👶🧠
The BCD Lab has gathered to celebrate the accomplishment of another successful academic year of research, our students overcoming rigorous academic challenges, and looking forward to future opportunities and endeavors. We hope you also had a wonderful year, congrats to all and good luck for what comes next! 🥳🎉
We are so proud to announce that our very own PhD student, Jamie Newland, has successfully defended her dissertation this past April 2025. Defending a dissertation is no small feat—it’s the culmination of years of research, perseverance, and hard work. We celebrate the dedication, resilience, and passion that brought Jamie to this moment. She has […]
Naya Thompson (Undergraduate Research Assistant) presented her poster at UF’s Undergraduate Research Symposium for the Spring 2025 semester! Her poster demonstrated the effects of Event-Related Potentials on brain processing of faces and objects. This really shows the importance of face processing when it comes to navigating the world. 🌎
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We are so proud to announce that two of our PhD students, Mina Elhamiasl and Julia Farrell, have successfully defended their dissertations this past December 2024. Defending a dissertation is no small feat—it’s the culmination of years of research, perseverance, and hard work. We celebrate the dedication, resilience, and passion that brought Julia and Mina […]
We’re excited to announce a recent publication by Julia Farrell, a PhD student in the BCD Lab. This paper, published in Developmental Psychobiology, explores how preschool children differentially view faces based on factors like face race, sex, and orientation (upright or inverted). Using eye-tracking, we found that children’s visual orienting and attention strategies differed when […]
Bailey Garner (Research Coordinator II) presented her poster at the 14th Annual North Central Florida Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Conference. Her poster demonstrated the effects short-term label training has on infant visuocortical processing. Labels play an important role in how infants understand their surrounding environments throughout development. 🧠👶
We are thrilled to announce the publication of a paper in Cerebral Cortex by our talented PhD student, Mina Elhamiasl! The paper delves into the developmental trajectories of the EEG dominant rhythm (6 to 9Hz) across infancy, shedding light on crucial aspects of early brain development 🧠. Using a novel sustained attention task, the authors […]