Tricia Striano
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Career
Tricia Striano was born in Weymouth MassachusettsMassachusetts
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. She obtained her BA in psychology from The College of the Holy Cross. She obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology from Emory University
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
in 2000, after which she became Head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Planck Society network....
in Leipzig, Germany. In 2004, Tricia Striano received the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award
Sofia Kovalevskaya Award
The Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation of Germany bestows the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award every two years. Sofia Kovalevskaya was the first major Russian female mathematician, who made important contributions to mathematical analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman...
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/31677.html of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a foundation set-up by the government of the Federal Republic and funded by the German Foreign Office, the Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and others for the promotion of international co-operation...
. She used the award to build the Neurocognition and Development Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences is located Leipzig, Germany. The institute was founded in 2004 by a merger between the former Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich...
and Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Leipzig
University of Leipzig
The University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in the world and the second-oldest university in Germany...
. In 2008, Dr. Striano obtained her habilitation
Habilitation
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from the University of Osnabruck
University of Osnabrück
The University of Osnabrück is a public university located in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany.In 2010 it was attended by 9,298 students. In 2009, the staff of 1,570 consisted of 214 professors, 662 additional academic personnel and 694 non-academic personnel...
in Germany, and in 2010, she founded HowBabiesLearn.com. Dr. Striano is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College
Hunter College
Hunter College, established in 1870, is a public university and one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Hunter grants undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees in more than one hundred fields of study, and is recognized...
City University of New York.
Infant and Child Development Research
Dr. Tricia Striano researches early social cognition in infancy, using brain andbehavioral measures. Her research is essential to understanding the ontogenetic pathways that give rise
to typical and atypical social cognitive development.
Dr. Striano's research shows that infants' developments include the ability to identify relevant social cues directed at
the self versus others (i.e., dyadic relations), the capacity to detect the
relevance of social cues directed at the environment (i.e., triadic relations),
and the ability to use this social information to learn.
Publications
- Hoehl, S., Reid, V., Parise, E., Handl, A., Palumbo, L., & Striano, T. (2010). Looking at eye gaze processing and its neural correlates in infancy: Implications for social development and autism spectrum disorder. Child Development.
- Striano, T., editor, Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism ISBN 9781405162173 Blackwell, 2008.
- Hoehl, S. & Striano, T. (2008). Neural processing of eye gaze and threat-related emotional facial expressions in infancy. Child Development, 79(6), 1752-1760.
- Striano, T., Stahl, D., Cleveland, A., & Hoehl, S. (2007). Sensitivity to triadic attention between 6 weeks and 3 months of age. Infant Behavior and Development, 30(3), 529-534.
- Striano, T. & Reid, V.M. (2006). Social cognition in the first year. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(10), 471-476.
- Striano, T., Henning, A., & Stahl, D. (2006). Sensitivity to interpersonal timing at 3 and 6 months of age. Interaction Studies, 7(2), 251-271.
- Striano, T. & Bertin, E. (2005). Coordinated affect with mothers and strangers: A longitudinal analysis of joint engagement between 5 and 9 months of age. Cognition and Emotion, 19(5), 781-790.
- Striano, T. (2004). Direction of regard and the still-face effect in the first year: Does intention matter? Child Development, 75(2), 468-479.
- Striano, T., Tomasello, M., & Rochat, P. (2001). Social and object support for early symbolic play. Developmental Science, 4(4), 442-455.
- Striano, T. & Rochat, P. (2000). Emergence of selective social referencing in infancy. Infancy, 1(2), 253-264.
- Striano, T. & Rochat, P. (1999). Developmental link between dyadic and triadic social competence in infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17(4), 551-562.
- Vincent Reid & Tricia Striano, editors Social Cognition During Infancy: A Special Issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology
Media
- November 2008 Baby Milestones: Social Triumphs (Parenting.com)
- June 12, 2008 Babies Pick up Early on Adults' Social Cues (USAToday.com/ScienceFair)
- June 2008 Three-month-old Infants Are Sensitive To Emotional Cues Referring To Objects In The World (Science Daily.com)
- February 2008 Look Who's Talking (PopularMechanics.com)
- September 21, 2005 Better to be in Leipzig. The Developmental Psychologist Tricia Striano (Humboldt KOSMOS - Mitteilungen der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung)