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Department of Psychology

Research in developmental psychology encompasses a broad range of topics in human cognitive and social development. These include studies of reading, numeracy and memory; causal inference and associative learning; individual differences in theory of mind and executive function, and their relation to adjustment to school; future thinking and the development of imagination in young children; the biomedical causes of autism spectrum conditions; and the effect of autism spectrum and other developmental disorders on learning and attention. Social development studies encompass neuroendocrine and psychological mechanisms in the development of gender, the impact of different family structures on child development and, forensic developmental psychology.