Tricia Striano
Professor at the Department of Psychology, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), USA
Breaking the Wall of Infant Development. What Modern Art and Modern Books Can Do for Children and for Autism Research.
What is it that makes us human beings – nature or nurture? Sciences and humanities have both long debated this question, but only recently has research emerged that focuses on the ways that young infants learn to communicate, process social cues, and learn from others. This research gives us new insight into the development of human culture.
Understanding the development of the human mind is crucial to providing infants and children with optimal educational and social conditions. Developmental psychologist Tricia Striano (1973) studies how social cognitive skills are built up – and what we can do to assist infants and children to communicate and learn.
After receiving her Ph.D. from Emory University, Striano became Head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Society. In 2004, she was recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation where she built up the Neurocognition and Development Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. She obtained her Habilitation in 2008 from University Osnabruck and is now at Hunter College in New York City.
