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Dean D'Souza

Dr Dean D'Souza

Senior Lecturer

School of Psychology

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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

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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).

Contact Details

Email DSouzaD2@cardiff.ac.uk

Campuses Tower Building, Room 2.11, 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Developmental science
  • Developmental cognitive neuroscience