Developmental Psychology - Prof. Dr. Birgit Elsner

Academic degrees:

Habilitation (2007, University of Heidelberg)

Dr. phil. (2000, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich / Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research Munich)

Diploma in Psychology (1996, University of Göttingen)

Other functions:

Head of the BabyLAB of the University of Potsdam (together with Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle)

Deputy Spokesperson of the DFG Research Unit FOR 2253

Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group GRK1668 and the PIER study

Member of the Senate of the University of Potsdam

Member of the Committee for the Study and Teaching of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs)

Research interests:

• (social-)cognitive development in early infancy (mainly understanding of other people’s actions, imitative learning, control of intentional action)
• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (neural correlates of cognitive development)
• relations between cognitive abilities (mainly executive functions, theory of mind) and developmental problems in middle childhood

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