Liberal Arts and Sciences
Brain, Cognition & Development Lab
Led by Lisa Scott · Psychology
What we study
The Brain, Cognition & Development Lab studies how babies and young children learn to recognize faces and objects, and how early experience shapes the developing brain. It records brain activity with EEG and tracks where infants look with eye-tracking.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Investigating face and object processing using ERPs
The lab records brain waves while people look at pictures of faces and objects. They compare the electrical responses to see if faces trigger stronger brain activity than new objects. Students will help collect EEG data and analyze the event‑related potentials.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 546
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Recent papers, explained
- Experience Modulates Visuocortical Responses to Faces in 3- to 6-Year-Old Children
2026 · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
- Academics for Black Survival and Wellness: A Grassroots Intervention for Black Liberation and Anti‐Racism Inside and Outside of Academia
2026 · Journal of Community Psychology
Evaluates a Black-led program for academic wellness and anti-racism.
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- Race Familiarity Modulates Neural Face Categorization in Children: Evidence from Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation (FPVS)
2025 · Journal of Vision
Uses brain scans to see how preschoolers categorize faces by race and sex.
- Competitive Cortical Prioritization Emerges for Trained Objects across the First Year of Life
2025 · Journal of Neuroscience
Tests whether training infants to recognize objects leads to stronger brain responses for those objects.
- EMERGING OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS DRIVE COMPETITION FOR LIMITED CAPACITY IN THE INFANT BRAIN
2025 · Journal of Vision
Shows how training infants to recognize objects makes their brains prioritize those objects.
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