Research Projects

The BUDDY Study wishes to understand how early experiences such as home language environment, parent-child interactions, and parent stress impact brain function, language, and memory development during the first three years of life. 

Baby's First Years is the first randomized experiment testing the causal connections between poverty reduction and brain development among very young children. 

This project investigates how maternal and child stress alters brain activity across infancy and early childhood and how such alterations predict neurocognitive and socioemotional functioning.