
Liz Simpson
@Lizzy_Simpson
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Psychology Professor @UMiamiPsych @UnivMiami, Director @UMSocCogLab, one of @Many_Babies & @ManyPrimates. Developmental science, infant social behavior. She/her
Miami, FL
Joined March 2009
Join us! The Developmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Miami ( invites applications for fall 2026. Students are fully funded & receive excellent research training. #DevSci #DevPsy #PhDLife #GradSchool #UMiami (thread 1/10)
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Maternal Immune Activation Alters Infant Attentional Processing in a Nonhuman Primate Model #OpenAccess
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RT @MariaErmolaev13: Can the immune system be activated by imaginary germs? Study finds that visual proximity with an object perceived as i….
nature.com
Nature Neuroscience - Serino et al. show that seeing an infectious avatar approach the body in virtual reality triggers an immune response, indicating that the brain prepares the body to fight...
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RT @amydiehl: Study finds for women without children, an unequal division of cognitive labor (anticipating, filling and monitoring househol….
theconversation.com
New research highlights that the career outcomes of both women with and without children are negatively impacted by engaging in unpaid labour.
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@danielmessinger @BulotskyRebecca @UMSocCogLab Want to learn more? Join us this Sept for a PhD application info session! Interact with faculty & current grad students! Details will be posted by.@UMiamiPsych when available. Meanwhile, please share our Developmental PhD Program brochure: (thread 10/10)
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@danielmessinger @BulotskyRebecca I study social cognitive development in infants, children, & primates, focusing on face perception, social interaction, & positive emotions. Recruiting a student to study individual differences in newborn sociality. My lab: @UMSocCogLab (thread 9/10)
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@danielmessinger Dr. @BulotskyRebecca conducts community-based research with early childhood programs to promote social-emotional skills, school readiness, & early school achievement through classroom-level investigation & intervention. (thread 8/10)
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@danielmessinger Dr. Lynn Perry studies linguistic regularities (shape bias) & social regularities (peer interactions), language dev in kids w/ lang delays, hearing loss, & ASD. Recruiting students to study interaction in lang/literacy dev w/ hearing loss. (thread 7/10)
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Dr. @danielmessinger studies early interaction of healthy & disturbed dev. Uses objective measures, big behav data. Focuses on emotional, social, & language dev in poverty & autism. Recruiting students to study interactions in preschools. (thread 6/10)
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RT @NeuroscienceNew: “The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes” by Franziska Wegdell et….
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Human infants receive more directed communication than other great ape infants, indicating that it evolved alongside language.
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RT @lisascottbcd: Interested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The @bcdlab is expecting to hire a post….
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RT @Dr_BCallaghan: The @BABLab_UCLA is excited to be hiring a Staff Research Associate for our NIMH-funded Teen Bugs study investigating br….
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A novel approach to exploring infant gaze patterns with AI-manipulated videos #OpenAccess
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Scientific Reports - A novel approach to exploring infant gaze patterns with AI-manipulated videos
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RT @neo_papers: Increased parent speech and parent stress is associated with early vocalizations in preterm infants #neoTwitter
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Preterm infants appear to produce vocalizations as early as 30 weeks PMA, even while on non-invasive respiratory support. Higher AWC while parents are at the bedside is strongly correlated with...
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