Angela F. Lukowski, Ph.D.

angela.lukowski@uci.edu

 

Cognitive development proceeds rapidly during the first years of life.  By the time children are two years of age, they have access to language and remember information from the past over extended delays.  What is presently unknown about early cognitive development is how these early abilities are shaped by the social environment in which children are raised.  The broad goal of my research program is to provide this knowledge, allowing for a more contextualized understanding of cognitive development in the first years of life.  My research program includes three lines of inquiry: one examining sleep-behavior associations from infancy to young adulthood, another examining associations between child language comprehension, adult language use, and recall memory in preverbal infants and children, and a third examining cognitive development in special populations (i.e., children with Down syndrome and infants who have been affected by iron deficiency).  Please click here to see my curriculum vitae.