Developmental Science

Post-doctoral Fellows
Angela Chow

Graduate Students
Linzy Bohn
Ayanda Chakawa
Jiawen Chen
Naheed Hosan
Peggy McFall
Carley Piatt
Tiana Rust
Jamal Saleh
Lisa Smithson
Dayuma Vargas Lascano
Kristen Welker
Bonnie Whitehead

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Developmental Applications, Policy, and Practice
Expertise in (a) Children and technology, (b) School-based prevention programming, (c) Community-based research involving children, youth, and families, and (d) Linking developmental research, policy, and practice. Contributing faculty include Drs. Bisanz, Hoglund, and Varnhagen.

Cognitive Aging
Studies of (a) Normal and successful aging, (b) Neuropsychology of impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease, (c) Language and aging, and (d) Stereotypes and knowledge of aging and dementia. Contributing faculty include Drs. Dixon, Dolcos (PDF), and Kwong See.

Cognitive Development: Childhood and Adolescence
Studies of (a) Language, gesture and bilingualism, (b) Self-regulation in infancy and childhood, and (c) Mathematical cognition and spelling skills. Contributing faculty include Drs. Bisanz, Laurent (PDF), Nicoladis, Varnhagen, and Wiebe.

Developmental Neuroscience and Neurogenetics
Studies of developing brain-gene-environment-cognition relationships in (a) Infants and children, (b) Healthy older adults, and (c) Special populations throughout the lifespan. Contributing faculty include Drs. Dixon, Dolcos (PDF), Nicoladis, A. Singhal, and Wiebe.

Developmental Methods
Expertise in (a) Longitudinal and other intraindividual designs, (b) Analyses of change, trajectories, and variability data, (c) Lifespan theory-method interactions, (d) Developmental epidemiology, and (e) Community-based research. Contributing faculty include Drs. Bisanz, J. Caplan, Dixon, Galambos, Hoglund, and Wiebe.

Social Development
Studies of (a) Adolescence and the transition to adulthood, (b) Peer and family relations, (c) Internalizing and externalizing problems, (d) Influence of sociocultural conditions (e.g., economic disadvantage, racial/ethnic diversity), (e) Social-cognitive processes, and (f) Language socialization. Contributing faculty include Drs. Galambos, Hoglund, and Nicoladis.

Institutional Resources for Developmental Science
Alberta Centre on Aging
Alberta Cognitive Neuroscience
Community-University Partnership for the Study of Children, Youth and Families (CUP)
Instructional Technology
Victoria Longitudinal Study
Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI)

University of Alberta

Department of Psychology