Dr. Sarah Berger | Embodied Cognition in Infancy - přednáška

Society for Cognitive Science would like to invite everyone interested to a lecture by Dr. Sarah Berger, who is a New York professor of psychology.

Dr. Berger’s program is driven by the question of how learning and cognition occur in bodies that are in flux. How does having a continually changing body, with changing skills and changing expertise shape the trajectory of infants’ cognitive development, especially when change is rapid and dramatic? Using an embodied cognition framework, she will present a series of studies from her lab that examine how different developmental domains interact to influence and constrain development, particularly at times of emerging skills. She will discuss how the simultaneous development of motor proficiency and executive functioning over the first years taxes attentional resources to elicit cognition-action trade-offs.

Dr. Sarah Berger is a professor of psychology at College of Staten Island and works at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she leads the Child Development Lab. She's a two-time Fullbright Scholarship holder and she has work with Prague's ČVUT. In her research, she focuses on links between motorics and cognition in infants and connects developmental psychology, science of movement and artificial intelligence, especially through computer imaging and robotics. Dr. Sarah Berger also contributes to the leading publications of developmental psychology.