Jukka
Leppänen
Professor, Psychology
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Areas of expertise
Eye tracking
visual cognition
early development
individual differences
Teaching
Developmental psychology (PSYK8119) and cognitive neuroscience (PSYK3394 & PSYK3517).
Research
My research uses eye-tracking methods to examine elementary visual behaviors in infants and young children, particularly in situations that mimic natural dyadic (e.g., infant-parent) and triadic (i.e., infant-parent-objects) interactions. Of the many questions that are central to these topics, my current work focuses on individual differences in infant visual behavior, the origins of these differences, and their functional significance.
Publications
Converging neural and behavioral evidence for a rapid, generalized response to threat-related facial expressions in 3-year-old children (2021)
NeuroImage
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Maternal Shared Pleasure, Infant Withdrawal, and Developmental Outcomes in a High Risk Setting in South Africa (2021)
Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Signaled night awakening and its association with social information processing and socio-emotional development across the first two years (2021)
Sleep
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