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Elena Tenenbaum is a psychologist and researcher specializing in language acquisition and cognitive development. Her research and clinical interests center on communication between children and caregivers in the context of atypical development. Tenenbaum employs eye tracking and behavioral measures to investigate both typical and atypical trajectories of social attention and language learning. Her work explores the relationships between social attention and word learning, focusing particularly on the communicative capacity of minimally verbal children with autism and the processes of audio-visual synchrony in this population. Tenenbaum has also examined critical questions related to infant mental health, particularly how perinatal depression affects language and cognitive development. She completed her PhD in Psychology at Brown University, in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, where she later respecialized in Clinical Psychology through an internship and postdoctoral training at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Tenenbaum became a member of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development in September 2018.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences • Duke University, Durham, NC
Researcher in the field of psychology with a focus on language acquisition and cognitive development.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)