Meet the BabyChildTeen Team!
Faculty:
Dr. Karen Adolph - Infant Action Lab
How do people learn to adapt to changes in their bodies, skills, and environment? We answer these questions by investigating how infants and young children cope with novel motor challenges such as walking down slopes, squeezing through apertures, reaching for targets, and opening containers.
Dr. Sudha Arunachaluam - LEARN Lab
Our research examines one of the most amazing accomplishments of early childhood: learning language. We ask how children discover the meanings of words and how children’s everyday experiences support language learning.
Dr. Andrei Cimpian - Cognitive Development Lab
We study social-cognitive development. In particular, we investigate children’s explanations for what they observe around them, their concepts of natural kinds and social groups (including stereotypes), and their motivation in school.
Dr. Moira Dillon - Lab for the Developing Mind
We study the full range of human encounters with geometry. In addition, we ask how basic mechanisms of perception and cognition about spaces, objects, agents, and social partners might shape cultural production of pictorial art.
Dr. Catherine Hartley - Hartley Lab
We study the development and dynamics of the learning, memory, and decision-making processes that shape behavior. We use a broad array of methodological approaches to examine the cognitive, computational, and neural processes that inform choices and actions.
Dr. Marjorie Rhodes - Conceptual Development and Social Cognition Lab
Our research examines how children learn and reason about the world around them. We are interested in how children form categories of animals, everyday objects, and people, and how children make sense of human social behavior.
Dr. Catherine Tamis-LeMonda - Play and Language Lab
We study children’s learning and development across the first years of life. We ask how social and cultural contexts influence the skills that children acquire and how they engage with their physical and social environments.
Raquel Queiruga - Research Administrator
Raquel leads participant recruitment for BabyChildTeen@NYU at Tisch Hospital, partnering closely with clinical staff and families to support ethical, welcoming research engagement. She helps connect parents and children with studies in ways that prioritize clear communication and respect for families’ time and experiences.
Jess Lazen - Recruitment Coordinator
Jess is a social scientist with a background in cognitive science and an M.S. in Applied Statistics from New York University. At BabyChildTeen, she manages the family recruitment database and supports studies designed to make research a fun and engaging experience for families.