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Lindsey Powell is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego, specializing in the early development of social cognition and motivation in infants and young children. Her research explores how children understand minds, engage in interactions and relationships, and what motivates them to attend to social partners. She employs a variety of methods to study child development, including measuring behavior such as infant looking and reaching, as well as child judgments and predictions. Additionally, she uses advanced techniques like functional near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate brain function linked to these developmental processes. Powell's work aims to uncover the mechanisms through which children develop their ability to cooperate, communicate, and learn throughout the early years of life.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).