Brief Biographical Sketch:

I am passionate about studying the development of the human brain and how it gives rise to thought. How does a baby brain come to be responsible for housing everything a child (or adult) thinks, knows, experiences, and feels? In order to answer this question, I show babies videos or have them listen to sounds like speech or music, while I take pictures of their brains. I then look at the pictures to determine if there are any differences in the way their brain responds to different videos or different sounds. If I find differences, I can use those differences to help us understand what a baby might be thinking.
Outside of graduate school, I am the mom of a 10-year-old daughter. We really like watching the Avengers movies together and we wish we spent more time riding our bikes.

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