Keywords: knowledge acquisition; reading comprehension; writing; strategies; self-explanation; writing assessment; intelligent tutoring systems; tutoring; games; computational linguistics; learning analytics

Keywords: resilience to major life stressors; psychosocial and health development; healthy aging; midlife; longitudinal research methodology

Keywords: cognitive development, word learning, attention, language acquisition, statistical learning, bilingualism

Keywords: gene-environment interplay, substance use, family relationships, adolescence, young adulthood, ethnic/racial minority, health disparities

In our lab, we investigate how infants and young children learn about the world around them. Current projects in the lab explore the development of curiosity, social cognition, and communication from 5 months to 7 years

Keywords: anxiety; children; adolescents; prevention; treatment; culture; diversity; minority; ethnicity

Keywords: computational approaches, developmental psychopathology, behavioral genetics and epigenetics, emotion and temperament, plasticity and change

Keywords: adolescence, romantic relationships, multidisciplinary research, developmental psychopathology, culture, health, stress physiology

visual perception and working memory, decoding visual information from EEG signals