Dr. Jeff Loucks is an NRSA postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Jessica Sommerville. Before coming to the Institute, he earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of Oregon, working with Dr. Dare Baldwin. Jeff's research centers on the development of infants' human action processing: the processing that underlies later social-cognitive growth. In his research, Jeff also studies the cognitive system that underlies adults' action processing. At I-LABS, his research will investigate the role of active experience in infants' discrimination of human actions, and whether active experience narrows infants' attention to certain aspects of action events over others. Jeff will also investigate the neural correlates of action discrimination using Event-Related Potentials. Jeff's research at I-LABS is funded by an NRSA postdoctoral fellowship, awarded through the National Institutes of Health.
Publications:
Loucks, J., & Baldwin, D. (2009). Sources of information for discriminating dynamic human actions. Cognition, 111(1), 84-97.
