Dr M. Meyer (Marlene)
Associate professor - Cognitive Psychology
Assistant professor - Donders Centre for Cognition
Assistant professor - Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
My research focuses on social-cognitive development in early childhood and how this development is portrayed in brain and behavior. In my PhD project I investigated joint action development and its distinct neurocognitive processes (planning, controlling and monitoring one’s own actions; predicting and monitoring others’ actions). As a postdoc, I am continuing my research on joint action development and, in addition, am currently investigating the development of agency in early infancy. I tested infants (3-, 8-, 10-, 14-month-olds), young children (2½-, 3-, 3½-, 4- and 5-year-olds) and adults to study social-cognitive processes. Moreover, I made use of a combination of techniques including behavioural, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging techniques (EEG, fNIRS and recently MEG) to link neural and behavioral measures.
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