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How everyday experience contributes to the development of fundamental perceptual and cognitive skills in infancy

Professor David Lewkowicz,
Department of Psychology & Center for Complex Systems & Brain Science,
Florida Atlantic University, USA

Seminar co-hosted by TCD Neuroscience Society and ‘Trinity Psychology 50 Master Classes’
Trinity College Dublin

Time:             11.00am 
Date:              Monday, 25th June, 2012
Venue:           LB11, TCIN, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin.
All are welcome to attend

D.LewkowiczDavid Lewkowicz has been conducting infant development research for over 30 years and is an internationally recognized authority on infant perceptual/cognitive development. He has served as President of the International Society on Infant Studies as well as on the Executive Board of the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology. He is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. He has published many scientific papers, book chapters, and has edited books on various aspects of infant development.  He is Director of the Child Development Lab at Florida Atlantic University, USA, and his research has been funded by various organisations including National Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health.

Selected publications
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Hansen-Tift, A. M. (2012). Infants deploy selective attention to the mouth of a talking face when learning speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(5):1431-6.
Lewkowicz, D. J. (2011). The biological implausibility of the nature-nurture dichotomy and what it means for the study of infancy. Infancy, 16(4), 331–367.
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Ghazanfar, A. A. (2009). The emergence of multisensory systems through perceptual narrowing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13(11):470-8.
Pons, F., Lewkowicz, D. J., Soto-Faraco, S., & Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2009). Narrowing of intersensory speech perception in infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(26):10598-602.
Lewkowicz, D. J. & Berent, I. (2009). Sequence Learning in 4 Month-Old Infants: Do Infants Represent Ordinal Information? Child Development, 80, 1811-1823.