Margaret Moulson
Associate Professor
Director, Brain and Early Experiences (BEE) Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University
Faculty of Arts
Department of Psychology
Toronto, Ontario
mmoulson@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 552661
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Dr. Moulson is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Brain and Early Experiences (BEE) Lab. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from the Institute for Child Development at the University of Minnesota, and completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institu...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Moulson is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Brain and Early Experiences (BEE) Lab. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from the Institute for Child Development at the University of Minnesota, and completed postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The overarching goal of Dr. Moulson’s research program is to understand the mechanisms that underlie the development of social perception in both typical and atypical populations. Her research combines behavioural (head-mounted video recording, eye-tracking, looking time paradigms) and brain-based (EEG) measures to investigate face and emotion perception throughout development, with a particular focus on infancy and the role that early visual experience plays in driving developmental change. Research in the BEE Lab is currently supported by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and by an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
Some current research questions in the lab include:
How often are infants exposed to faces in their daily environment and how does this exposure shape their face processing abilities?
When and how do infants learn to recognize facial expressions of emotion?
How is emotion perception in the first year of life related to higher-level abilities, like social referencing and emotion regulation, in the second year?
What are the neural changes that underlie the development of face and emotion perception in infancy?
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The overarching goal of Dr. Moulson’s research program is to understand the mechanisms that underlie the development of social perception in both typical and atypical populations. Her research combines behavioural (head-mounted video recording, eye-tracking, looking time paradigms) and brain-based (EEG) measures to investigate face and emotion perception throughout development, with a particular focus on infancy and the role that early visual experience plays in driving developmental change. Research in the BEE Lab is currently supported by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and by an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
Some current research questions in the lab include:
How often are infants exposed to faces in their daily environment and how does this exposure shape their face processing abilities?
When and how do infants learn to recognize facial expressions of emotion?
How is emotion perception in the first year of life related to higher-level abilities, like social referencing and emotion regulation, in the second year?
What are the neural changes that underlie the development of face and emotion perception in infancy?
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