Welcome to the Child Development Laboratory!

Our research focuses on multiple facets of socio-emotional development. We study cognitive, social and emotional processes and are interested in the observation and measurement of attention, memory, as well as emotion expression and social experience. Our lab specializes in linking these psychological processes to neural activity through brain imaging methods such as EEG, ERP, and functional neuro-imaging.

Learn about our current studies!

 
 

In the News:

Congratulations!

Congratulations to our outstanding undergraduate research assistant, Rasheedah Geneste! Rasheedah won 1st place in the undergraduate competition at the 11th Annual Black Doctoral Network Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. She presented findings from the Mother-Child Dynamics (MCD) study with her research poster titled “Relations Among Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Emotional Socialization Behaviors and Adolescents’ Internalizing Problems." Rasheedah has been an undergraduate research assistant on the Mother-Child Dynamics study for three semesters now, and we are very proud of her and her work!

One of our recent papers has been covered in Maryland Today and the College of Education newsroom.

Dr. Fox was interviewed for an article on anxiety for Newsweek Magazine.

Check out this new article by Dr. Fox and colleagues that was featured in Frontiers for Young Minds.

Dr. Fox presented a seminar at the Center for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck - University of London.

Dr. Fox’s collaboration on the HBCD project was featured by the Brain and Behavior Institute.

The Child Development Lab’s COVID-19 research was featured in an NIH press release and in VeryWell Health.

The University of Maryland highlighted Dr. Fox's infant study. 

Dr. Fox's collaborative work was featured by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

The Child Development Lab has been featured in both LiveScience and on University of Maryland's website! 

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project, was featured in the National Geographic magazine for their January 2015 issue! 

Newsweek Magazine featured Dr. Fox in one of its special edition releases.