Since receiving my doctorate degree, I have been conducting research on a variety of topics related to child development. My early research focused primarily on speech and language development in infants and toddlers with an underlying interest in perception and cognitive development.  During the past 20 years, in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Davies, we have developed a program of research on sensory processing and cognitive development in children and adolescents utilizing electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs) methodologies. 

Our current efforts focus on investigating the relationships of perception of sensory stimuli with the development of cognition in children using EEG/ERP techniques. A long-standing theme of my research efforts has been to understand how the nuances of the methodologies we use in our studies influence statistical outcomes, and in particular, ways of controlling measurement error. My latest efforts involve the use of structural equation modeling techniques to explore the interrelationships of brain (i.e., EEG/ERP) and behavioral measures while controlling for trait and state effects. Our lab is also developing new computational methodologies for the analyzing EEG data at the single trial level.