A5010691711- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Language Development and Disorders
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Gut microbiota and health
- Infant Health and Development
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
New York University
2018-2025
NYU Langone Health
2023
Reinhardt University
2019
Columbia University
2014-2018
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2015-2017
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
2016
New York State Psychiatric Institute
2016
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2015
Georgetown University
2011-2013
ABSTRACT Socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly associated with cognition and achievement. disparities in language memory skills have been reported from elementary school through adolescence. Less known about the extent to which such emerge infancy. Here, 179 infants socioeconomically diverse families were recruited. Using a cohort‐sequential design, 90 followed at 9 15 months, 89 21 months. SES developmental trajectories of present that, months age, children highly educated parents scored...
Abstract Very few studies have examined the cognitive advantages of bilingualism during first two years development, and a majority examining throughout lifespan focused on relationship between multiple languages control. Early experience with language systems may influence domain‐general processes, such as memory, that increase bilingual child’s capacity for learning. In current study, we found bilingual, but not monolingual, infants were able to generalize across cues at 18 months. This is...
Abstract The impact of COVID-19-related stress on perinatal women is heightened public health concern given the established intergenerational maternal stress-exposure infants and fetuses. There urgent need to characterize coping styles associated with adverse psychosocial outcomes in during COVID-19 pandemic help mitigate potential for lasting sequelae both mothers infants. This study uses a data-driven approach identify patterns behavioral strategies that associate distress large...
Memory flexibility is a hallmark of the human memory system. As indexed by generalization between perceptually dissimilar objects, develops gradually during infancy. A recent study has found bilingual advantage in at 18 months age [Brito and Barr [2012] Developmental Science, 15, 812-816], present examines when this may first emerge. In current study, 6-month-olds were more likely than monolinguals to generalize puppet that differed two features (shape color) monolingual 6-month-olds. When...
Bilingual advantages in memory flexibility, indexed using a generalization task, have been reported (Brito & Barr, 2012; 2014), and the present study examines what factors may influence performance. The first experiment role of language similarity; bilingual 18-month-old infants exposed to two similar languages (Spanish–Catalan) or more different (English–Spanish) were tested on task compared monolingual 18-month-olds. second compares performance by trilingual 18-month-olds infants’ from...
The specificity of the bilingual advantage in memory was examined by testing groups monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual 24-month-olds on tasks tapping cued recall, generalization working memory. For recall conditions, there a 24-h delay between time encoding retrieval. In addition to tasks, parent-toddler dyads completed picture-book reading task, order observe emotional responsiveness, parental report productive vocabulary. Results indicated no difference language memory, or vocabulary,...
Infants perceptually tune to the phonemes of their native languages in first year life, thereby losing ability discriminate non‐native phonemes. who earlier have been shown develop stronger language skills later childhood. We hypothesized that socioeconomic disparities, which associated with differences quality and quantity home, would contribute individual phonetic discrimination. Seventy‐five infants were assessed on measures discrimination at 9 months, home environment 15 abilities both...
Abstract Chronic stress has been increasingly linked with aberrations in children's behavioral, cognitive, and social development, yet the effect of chronic physiological on neural development during first year life is largely unknown. The present study aims to link a index (maternal hair cortisol concentration) maturational differences infant functional brain life. Participants were 94 mother‐infant dyads. To stress, maternal samples assayed for previous three months’ output. examine...
Psychological distress during the perinatal period has increased COVID-19 pandemic.A systematic review of 81 studies (N = 132 917 pregnant or postpartum women; research published prior to January 31, 2021) reported prevalence depression and anxiety ranging from 20% 64% ongoing pandemic. 1Although there is still a need examine more representative samples, large cross-sectional study 1 mostly US women corroborated these findings, reporting clinical levels in 36% compared with an estimated...
Growing evidence suggests that infant attention may predict subsequent cognitive outcomes. However, prior studies have predominantly tested small samples of infants in tightly controlled laboratory settings differ from the complex, visually rich environments experience their day-to-day lives. The present study addresses this gap by measuring sustained home using novel remote webcam eye tracking methodology. A large, demographically diverse sample 3- to 12-month-old (N = 160; 49% female; 65%...
Abstract Family socioeconomic status ( SES ) is strongly associated with children's cognitive development, and past studies have reported disparities in both neurocognitive skills brain structure across childhood. In other studies, bilingualism has been advantages differences the lifespan. The aim of current study to concurrently examine joint independent associations between family dual‐language use during A subset data from Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition Genetics PING was analyzed;...