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Dr Dean D'Souza
Senior Lecturer
- DSouzaD2@cardiff.ac.uk
- Tower Building, Room 2.11, 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Cardiff University. The aim of my fellowship is to adopt a process-centred ecological and interactionist approach to understanding infant adaptations to diverse environments; specifically by measuring the complexity of each infant's environment and combining it with multilevel naturalistic and experimental data and computational modelling.
Publication
2024
- Singh, L., Barr, R., Quinn, P. C., Kalashnikova, M., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Freda, K. and D'Souza, D. 2024. Effects of environmental diversity on exploration and learning: The case of bilingualism.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (10.1037/xge0001562)
Articles
- Singh, L., Barr, R., Quinn, P. C., Kalashnikova, M., Rocha-Hidalgo, J., Freda, K. and D'Souza, D. 2024. Effects of environmental diversity on exploration and learning: The case of bilingualism.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (10.1037/xge0001562)
Biography
Appointed Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University in 2024, my PhD (which I received at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) focused on the early cognitive and neurophysiological processes that underlie developmental outcomes in typically developing infants, infants at high risk of developing autism, and young children with different genetic syndromes. I now lead the Early Learning and Neurodevelopment (ELAN) lab, which is affiliated with the Cardiff Babylab, and investigate infant adaptations to internal variation (e.g., genetics) and external variation (e.g., exposure to different language environments).
Research themes
Specialisms
- Developmental science
- Developmental cognitive neuroscience