Her research program aims to better understand the cerebral and cognitive development of children and infants. She is specifically interested in learning mechanisms adopted by healthy children and children with various types of developmental disorders. The research methods are varied and noninvasive (EEG, eye tracking, neuropsychology, observations, structural and functional MRI). She is the founder of the Neuroscience of Early Development lab:
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Examples of Research Projects:
- The predictive brain: a sensitive biomarker of neurodevelopment. CIHR
- Development of learning mechanisms in healthy children National Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC).
- Development of children who have a history of prolonged febrile convulsion. FRQ-S
- Learning mechanisms in individuals with intellectual disability. Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation. Fragile X Research Foundation of Canada.
- Genomic determinants of common long-term treatment effects in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia survivors. CIHR
For more information please visit http://www.ned.umontreal.ca