The Neurocognitive Development Lab is part of the Infant Studies program at the University of Maryland.

If you are a parent, we would like to extend an invitation to you and your child to participate in an interesting set of studies on normal child development.

• Our studies take place in a comfortable, home-like setting at the University of Maryland’s College Park campus.

• Parents participate with their children and are near to their child at all times during the visit.

• Studies focus on children of different ages, up to 10 years old.

• We each bring over 10 years of research experience to the study of cognitive and language and cognitive development in infants, toddlers, preschoolers, children.

• To learn more or sign up to participate visit: http://www.infantstudies.umd.edu/

• Click here for more information on: Visiting Our Lab


• Click here for directions to our lab: Directions

Other researchers in the Infant Studies Program at the University of Maryland

Jeffrey Lidz, Ph.D. studies how infants and children learn the basic grammatical categories of their first language and how they begin to put words together to form phrases and sentences.

Rochelle Newman, Ph.D. studies how infants understand speech, including how they follow the voice of one talker in background noise, and how they recognize individual words within the speech stream.

Amanda Woodward, Ph.D. studies how infants understand others’ intentions, engage in joint attention with caretakers, learn by imitating others’ actions, and take their first steps in learning words.

Other developmental researchers on campus

Donald Bolger, Ph.D. studies how the brain learns to read, the sources of reading skill and impairment, and how children learn the meaning of words.

Andres De Los Reyes, Ph.D. studies why different measurements of behavior yield different conclusions in research and how these differences influence the science behind identifying effective treatments.

Lea Dourghtey, Ph.D. studies the etiology and course of depression from a developmental, life-span perspective.

Jude Cassidy, Ph.D. studies socioemotional development with specific emphasis on attachment.

Nathan Fox, Ph.D. studies the development of cognitive, social and emotional processes and is interested in the observation and measurement of attention, memory, as well as emotion expression and social experience.

...and many more! For more information visit: Field Committee in Developmental Science

A Few Off-Campus Colleagues, Collaborators, Mentors, and Friends

Patricia J. Bauer, Ph.D. and the Memory Development Lab

Maureen M. Black, Ph.D. and Following Urban Teens: Unique and Resilient at Every Step (FUTURES)

Charles A. Nelson, Ph.D. and the Developmental Medicine Center Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience

Michael K. Georgieff, M.D., Neely C. Miller and the Center for Neurobehavioral Development

Tony J. Simon, Ph.D. and the Cognitive Analysis and Brain Imaging Laboratory (CABIL) at the M.I.N.D. Institute

Lisa S. Scott, Ph.D. and the Brain, Cognition and Development Laboratory (BCD Lab)

Resources on the Web

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

United States Department of Education

Zero to Three

Society for Research on Child Development

Parents' Perspective

Neuroscience for Kids!