My research concerns memory development in infancy and early childhood, with particular interest in understanding the relation between brain development and advances in memory during the first years of life. I am particularly interested in elucidating the contribution of individual differences in attention, speed of processing, sleep-dependent memory consolidation, and hippocampal development to long-term memory in infancy. I am also interested in determining the immediate and long-term impacts of early neurological insults (for example, those related to nutrition) on neurocognitive outcomes, particularly memory and executive functioning. To date, I have investigated these and related questions using behavioral methods with established neural underpinnings as well as with electrophysiological techniques, such as event-related potentials.
For more information about our research, please visit the Lukowski Memory and Development Lab website at http://memorydevelopment.soceco.uci.edu
Selected Publications
Lukowski, A. F., Wiebe, S. A., Haight, J. C., Waters, J. M., Nelson, C. A., & Bauer, P. J. (2005). Forming a stable memory representation in the first year of life: Why imitation is more than child’s play. Developmental Science, 8, 279-298.
Wiebe, S. A., Cheatham, C. L., Lukowski, A. F., Haight, J. C., Muehleck, A. J., & Bauer, P. J. (2006). Infants’ ERP responses to novel and familiar stimuli change over time: Implications for novelty detection and memory. Infancy, 9, 21-44.
Bauer, P. J., Wiebe, S. A., Carver, L. J., Lukowski, A. F., Haight, J. C., Waters, J. M., & Nelson, C. A. (2006). Electrophysiological indices of encoding and behavioral indices of recall: Examining relations and developmental change late in the first year of life. Developmental Neuropsychology, 29, 293-320.