PhD: “Object perception, action perception, action production and imitation in infancy: the role of physical affordances and functional object knowledge”. Supervisor: Professor Denis Mareschal. Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD), Birkbeck College, London.

MSc in Developmental Psychology, Psychology Department, University of Amsterdam.

MSc in Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science Centre Amsterdam, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS), Amsterdam.

The TALBY project.

Infant–object interaction and the bidirectional link between action perception and action production. My PhD thesis investigated the relationship between object perception, action perception, action production and imitation using both behavioural and eye-tracking measures.

Language and social communication skills in early infancy, and the possible influence of socioeconomic status and language background of the parent/caretaker. In the TALBY project we are taking eye-tracking equipment into Sure Start Children’s Centres to test 6- and 7-month-olds' visual attention to social and speech stimuli.

Other scientific interests are cross-cultural infancy research, the interactionist approach to ontogenetic and phylogenetic development, theory of mind/false belief, (social) imitation, (probabilistic) epigenetic processes, comparative psychology/primatology, and basically all interdisciplinary approaches in the (social) sciences.

• Institute for Research in Child Development, University of East London
• Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London