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I am interested in cognitive science broadly, and particularly developmental cognitive neuroscience. With the help of Simon Baron-Cohen and Mark Johnson (Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development), I set up the Infant-Toddler lab at the Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University. At the lab we are attempting to understand the cognitive profile (strengths and weaknesses) of infants and toddlers with autism and language delay, specifically looking for the earliest signs of atypical information processing that lead to other problems later in development. As such, we look at various aspects of perception, attention, emotional regulation, complex pattern recognition, conceptual development, language, and problem solving skills more generally.
I work also with typically developing children, mostly preschoolers, and have studied adults with acute brain injury, focussing largely on right hemisphere and frontal lobe function.
Other projects include exploring parallel distributed processing computational models of development, with Tim Rogers (MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit), and I seem to write a bit on the philosophy of psychology, for better or for worse.
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