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We are a growing team of researchers from the Department of Psychology and the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

Current research staff

Dr Silvia Rigato
Dr Silvia Rigato

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Face and emotion processing in infancy; The development of body representation and tactile localisation; The development of neural basis of shared touch; Perinatal mental health.

Dr Maria Filippetti
Dr Maria Filippetti

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: The development of body awareness; Tactile interactions; Development of interoception.

Dr Claire Delle Luche
Dr Claire Delle Luche

Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics

Research interests: Language variability; accents, bilingualism and semantic processing in children; Speech perception in infants, children, and adults.

Dr Carina De Klerk
Dr Carina De Klerk

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: imitation; facial mimicry; action processing; development of the mirror neuron system.

 Amanda Morris
Amanda Morris

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Impact of parent-child interactions.

 Anne Franks
Anne Franks

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Psychology

 Caryn Cook
Caryn Cook

Postgraduate Research Student, Department of Psychology

Research interests: measurement of interoceptive sensitivity in infants; development of anxiety and anxiety disorders in childhood; body positivity in childhood.

Chloe Richmond

Research Assistant (Placement year), Department of Psychology

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