Liz Simpson
@Lizzy_Simpson
Psychology Professor @UMiamiPsych @UnivMiami, Director @UMSocCogLab, one of @Many_Babies & @ManyPrimates. Developmental science, infant social behavior. She/her
Join us! The Developmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Miami (dev.psy.miami.edu) invites applications for fall 2026. Students are fully funded & receive excellent research training... #DevSci #DevPsy #PhDLife #GradSchool #UMiami (thread 1/10)
It turns out that spending more time in Nature does improve your mood.
“The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes” by Franziska Wegdell et al. Science Advances doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…
Interested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The @bcdlab is expecting to hire a postdoc and a lab coordinator/tech in the coming months! Send me an email if interested and I’ll make sure to send you the job postings once open!
The @BABLab_UCLA is excited to be hiring a Staff Research Associate for our NIMH-funded Teen Bugs study investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Please send your best people to join our wonderful team! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072
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The indefatigable Kim Bard, Heidi Keller, and I wrote a critique and remedy for Western-oriented developmental psychology. Call for Commentary Proposals will likely be out soon. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
A novel approach to exploring infant gaze patterns with AI-manipulated videos #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1038/s41598…
Increased parent speech and parent stress is associated with early vocalizations in preterm infants #neoTwitter pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40414165/?utm_…
Facial expressions selectively modulate P300 somatosensory evoked-potential, but emotional scenes do not: Electrophysiological evidence for sensorimotor simulation #OpenAccess by Sara Costa, Pier Ferrari, @paola_sessa et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…
📣⭐️New @PNASNews paper alert! “The Brain Computes Dynamic Facial Movements for Emotion Categorization Using a Third Pathway” from @SchynsPhilippe lab Read more: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
New paper led by PhD student, @arushi_malik! Stability of individual differences in social and nonsocial visual attention from newborn to 14 months #OpenAccess with wonderful team, including @tiffany6390, @ZengGuangyu, @semaylott, @danielmessinger, et al. doi.org/10.1002/dev.70…