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Prof. Dr. Tricia Skoler

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
KeywordsBehaviour, Development, Neuroscience, infant cognition, social cognition

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityNew York
InstitutionHunter College
InstituteDepartment of Psychology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Angela FriedericiZentrum für Höhere Studien, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Angela FriedericiAbteilung Neuropsychologie, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2004

Programme(s)

2004Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Very early in the history of his evolution man developed the ability to read the faces of his fellow beings and, in a split second, draw conclusions about his counterpart's future behaviour. Knowing in advance if and when your neighbour's club was going to come down on your head was an evolutionary selection criterion of the first order. Just how this and similar abilities, so-called social cognition, come about has been researched in relation to animals. However, not a lot is known about the much more complex development in humans. This is particularly true of early development in infancy, from birth to twelve months. This is where Tricia Striano's project begins: she and her team are carrying out a test series with several hundred babies. Using a combination of behavioural research and neuroimaging it should help us to understand which rudimentary abilities humans bring into the world with them and how they manage, relatively quickly, to develop them into a complex system of social cognition. This should make it possible to draw conclusions on the general development of typical or atypical abilities, for example, in cases of autism.

Publications (partial selection)

2016Tricia Striano: Doing developmental research - A Practical Guide. Guilford Publications, 2016
2009Hoehl, S. & Striano, T.: Infants' neural processing of positive emotion and eye gaze. . In: Social Neuroscience, 2009, 1-10
2009Hirotani, M., Stets, M., Striano, T., & Friederici, A. Joint attention helps infants learn new words: event-related potential evidence . In: NeuroReport, 2009, 600-605
2009Reid, V.M., Hoehl, S., Grigutsch, M., Groendahl, A., Parise, E., & Striano, T. The neural correlates of infant and adult goal prediction: evidence for semantic processing systems. In: Developmental Psychology, 2009, 620-629
2008Schirmer, A., Escoffier, N., Zysset, S., Koester, D., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D.: When vocal processing gets emotional: On the role of social orientation in relevance detection by the human amygdala. In: NeuroImage, 2008, 1402-1410
2008Parise, E., Reid, V., Stets, M., & Striano, T. Direct eye contact influences the neural processing of objects in 5 month old infants. In: Social Neuroscience, 2008, 141-150
2008Reid, V.M., Hoehl, S., Landt, J., & Striano, T.: Human infants dissociate structural and dynamic information in biological motion: Evidence from neural systems.. In: Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2008, 161-167
2008Hoehl, S., Palumbo, L., Heinisch, C., & Striano, T.: Infants' attention is biased by emotional expressions and eye gaze direction. In: NeuroReport, 2008, 579-582
2008Reid, V.M. & Striano, T. N400 involvement in the processing of action sequences. . In: Neuroscience Letters, 2008, 93-97
2008Hoehl, S. & Striano, T.: Neural processing of eye gaze and threat-related emotional facial expressions in infancy. In: Child Development, 2008, 1752-1760
2008 Striano, T. & Reid, V: Social cognition at the crossroads: Perspectives on understanding others. In: T. Striano & V.M. Reid Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
2008Cleveland, A. & Striano, T. Televised social interaction and object learning in 14- and 18-month-old infants. In: Infant behavior and Development, 2008, 326-331
2008Reid, V. & Striano, T: The directed-attention model of infant social cognition: further evidence. In: T. Striano & V.M. Reid, Social Cognition: Development, Neuroscience and Autism. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
2008Kobiella, A., Grossmann, T., Reid, V.M., & Striano, T. The discrimination of angry and fearful facial expressions in 7-month-old infants: An event-related potential study. In: Cognition and Emotion, 2008, 134-146
2008Hoehl, S., Reid, V.M., Mooney, J., & Striano, T.: What are you looking at? Infants' neural processing of an adult's object-directed eye gaze . In: Developmental Science, 2008, 10-16
2008Hoehl, S., Wiese, L., & Striano, T.: Young infants’ neural processing of objects is affected by eye gaze direction and emotional expression . In: PLOS One, 2008, 1-6
2007Grossmann, T., Striano, T., & Friederici, A. Developmental changes in infant's processing of happy and angry facial expressions: A neurobehavioral study. In: Brain and Cognition, 2007, 30-41
2007De Groote, I., Roeyers, H., & Striano, T. Gaze following as a function of affective expression in 3- 6- and 9-month-old infants.. In: Infant Behavior and Development, 2007, 492-498
2007Parise, E., Cleveland, A., Costabile, A., & Striano, T.: Influence of vocal cues on learning about objects in joint attention contexts . In: Infant Behavior and Development, 2007, 380-384
2007Cleveland, A., Schug, M., & Striano, T: Joint attention and object learning in 5- and 7-month old infants. In: Infant and Child Development, 2007, 295-306
2007Striano, T., Stahl, D., Cleveland, A., & Hoehl, S.: Sensitivity to triadic attention between 6 weeks and 3 months of age . In: Infant Behavior and Development, 2007, 529-534
2007Reid, V.M., Striano, T., & Koops, W.: Special issue: Social cognition during infancy. In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007,
2007Reid, V.M. & Striano, T.: The directed attention model of infant social cognition . In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007, 100-110
2007Cleveland, A. & Striano, T.: The effects of joint attention on object processing in 4- and 9-month-old Infants.. In: Infant Behavior and Development, 2007, 499-504
2006Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., Striano, T., & Tomasello, M.: 12- and 18-month-old's point to provide information for others. In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006, 173-187
2006Tobias Grossmann, Tricia Striano, Angela D. Friederici: Crossmodal integration of emotional information from face and voice in the infant brain. In: Developmental Science, 2006, 309-315
2006Striano, T., Kopp, F., Grossmann, T., & Reid, V.M. Eye contact influences neural processing of emotional expressions in 4-month-old infants. In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2006, 87-94
2006Allison Cleveland, Andrea Kobiella, Tricia Striano Intention or expression? Four-month-olds' reactions to a sudden still-face . In: Infant Behavior & Development , 2006, 299-307
2006Striano, T., Chen, X., Cleveland, A., & Bradshaw, S. Joint attention social cues influence infant learning . In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006, 289-299
2006Tricia Striano, Vincent M. Reid, Stefanie Hoehl Neural mechanisms of joint attention in infancy . In: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2006, 2819-2823
2006Chen, X., Reid, V.M., & Striano, T. Oral exploration and reaching toward social and non-social objects in two-, four-, and six-month-old infants. In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006, 1-12
2006Tricia Striano, Anne Henning, Amrisha Vaish: Selective looking by 12-month-olds to a temporally contingent partner. In: Interaction Studies, 2006, 233-250
2006Striano, T., Henning, A., & Stahl, D. Sensitivity to interpersonal timing at 3 and 6 months of age. In: Interaction Studies, 2006, 251-271
2006Tricia Striano, Amrisha Vaish: Seven-to 9-month-old infants use facial expressions to interpret others' actions . In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006, 753-760
2006Tricia Striano, Vincent M. Reid: Social cognition in the first year . In: TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 2006, 471-476
2006Tricia Striano, Amrisha Vaish, Joann P. Benigno The meaning of infants' looks: Information seeking and comfort seeking? . In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006, 615-630
2006Vincent M. Reid, Stefanie Hoehl, Tricia Striano: The perception of biological motion by infants: An event-related potential study. In: Neuroscience Letters, 2006, 211-214
2006Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T. The role of experience and discourse in children's developing understanding of pretend play actions. In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006, 305-335
2006Evelin Bertin, Tricia Striano: The still-face response in newborn, 1.5-, and 3-month-old infants . In: Infant Behavior & Development , 2006, 294-297
2005Vincent M. Reid, Tricia Striano: Adult gaze influences infant attention and object processing: implications for cognitive neuroscience. In: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2005, 1763-1766
2005Striano, T. & Bertin, E. Coordinated affect with mothers and strangers: A longitudinal analysis of joint engagement between 5 and 9 months of age. In: Cognition and Emotion, 2005, 781-790
2005Striano, T. & Bushnell, E. Haptic perception of material properties by 3-month-old infants. In: Infant Behavior and Development, 2005, 266-289
2005 Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T.: How children turn objects into symbols: A cultural learning account. In: L. Namy, Symbol use and symbol representation. Erlbaum, 2005. 67-97
2005Tobias Grossmann, Tricia Striano, Angela D. Friederici: Infants' electric brain responses to emotional prosody. In: NEUROREPORT, 2005, 1825-1828
2005Henning, A., Striano, T., & Lieven, E.V.M: Maternal speech to infants at 1 and 3 months of age.. In: Infant Behavior and Development, 2005, 519-536
2005Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T.: On tools and toys: How children learn to act on and pretend with virgin objects. In: Developmental Science, 2005, 57-73
2005Reid, V.M. & Striano, T. Review of Johnson, Munakata and Gilmore (2002). In: Journal of Child Language, 2005, 469-472
2005Carpenter, M., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T. Role reversal in typically developing 12- and 18-month olds and children with autism. In: Infancy, 2005, 253-278
2005Tricia Striano, Anne Henning, Daniel Stahl: Sensitivity to social contingencies between 1 and 3 months of age. In: Developmental Science, 2005, 509-518
2005Striano, T. & Liszkowski, U. Sensitivity to the context of facial expression in the still face at 3-, 6-, and 9-months of age. In: Infant Behavior and Development, 2005, 10-19
2005Tricia Striano, Daniel Stahl: Sensitivity to triadic attention in early infancy. In: Developmental Science, 2005, 333-343
2005Schirmer, A., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D. Sex differences in the preattentive processing of vocal emotional expressions. In: NeuroReport, 2005, 635-639
2005Striano, T. & Bertin, E.: Social-cognitive skills between 5 and 10 months of age. . In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005, 559-568
2004 Chen, X., Striano, T., & Rakoczy, H. Auditory-oral matching behavior in newborns. In: Developmental Science, 2004, 42-47
2004Striano, T. & Bertin, E. Contribution of facial and vocal cues in the still-face response of 4-month-old infants. . In: Infant Behavior and Development, 2004, 499-508
2004Striano, T. Direction of regard and the still-face effect in the first year: Does intention matter?. In: Child Development, 2004, 468-479
2004Reid, V.M., Striano, T., Kaufman, J., & Johnson, M.: Eye gaze cueing facilitates neural processing of objects in 4-month-old infants. In: NeuroReport, 2004, 2553-2555
2004Vaish, A. & Striano, T. Is visual reference necessary? Contributions of facial versus vocal cues in 12-month-olds’ social referencing behavior. In: Developmental Science, 2004, 261-269
2004Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M., Henning, A., Striano, T., & Tomasello, M: Twelve-month-old infants point to share attention and interest. In: Developmental Science, 2004, 297-307
2004Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T.: Young children know that trying is not pretending - a test of the 'behaving-as-if” construal of children's early concept of pretense. In: Developmental Psychology, 2004, 388-399