Human factors approaches to understanding
aging and technology use;
sign perception and comprehension
by aging pedestrians and drivers;
development and maintenance
of expertise across the life-span;
understanding individual and
environmental determinants of work
performance.
Children's language and literacy development,
self-regulation, multiple
sources of influence on development
including parenting, poverty, and
the school and classroom environment
(instruction, teacher-child
interactions, teacher planning and
organization). Typical and atypical
development (learning disabilities
and deafness). Classroom observation.
Dynamic forecasting intervention
models and multi-level analytic
strategy use.
Thought processes and mental
representations of expert musicians,
athletes, and scientists and studies
of how experts attain their superior
performance by many years of deliberate
practice. Protocol analyses
and process tracing of how experts
improve their performance (deliberate
practice).
Neural and behavioral development;
research encompasses regulation
of critical periods for learning and
neural plasticity, development of sex
differences in brain and behavior,
regulation of neuron survival over the
life-span, mechanisms of neuronal
cell death.
The role of systems of perception
and action planning in language
comprehension; embodied cognition;
language production; learning and
adaptation effects in both language
comprehension and production;
language acquisition.
Developmental psychopathology;
children's responses to stress and
failure; problematic social interactions
of children; learning and
behavior problems of children.
Development, measurement, and
promotion of early language and
literacy skills; children's temperament
and its relation to cognitive
and behavioral development; early
childhood education; developmental
psychopathology (principal focus
on emotional and motivational
influences on the development of
psychopathology).
Psychiatric epidemiology in general
population and elderly population
samples: psychosocial factors (e.g.,
poverty, early childhood experiences,
childhood abuse, interpersonal functioning,
ethnicity, race) that influence
the onset and course of psychiatric
disorders (in particular depression)
and cognitive decline; racial, ethnic
and gender differences in protective
and vulnerability factors that influence
psychiatric disorders; depression
and cognitive decline in racially
diverse elderly populations.
Development of reading skills; prediction
and identification of children
with reading disabilities; research
design, measurement, and quantitative
methods such as hierarchical
linear modeling item response theory
models.
