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Greg Reynolds

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Research Interests

My research interests are focused on infant cognitive development. I am specifically interested in the development of visual attention and recognition memory in the first year of postnatal life.

Research statement

My research program examines the development of attention and recognition memory in human infants from a developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective. Methods utilized in the lab include: video-analysis of infant looking behavior, heart rate, electroencephalogram (EEG), event-related potentials (ERP), and cortical source localization techniques.  Although most of these methods are commonly used, little is known about the relationship between behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of infant cognition. In particular, no research to date has firmly established a link between behavioral and EEG/ERP correlates of infant cognition. My current research is aimed at designing new techniques for simultaneously measuring infant looking behavior, heart rate, and EEG/ERPs.

Grants

  • 2003-2007 – National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Award.   
  • 2005-2007 – Infant Attention and Recognition Memory (R03 HD05600-01; $127,000), Principal Investigator, Greg D. Reynolds. National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Selected Publications

Reynolds, G.D., & Richards, J.E. (2007). Infant heart rate: A developmental psychophysiological perspective. In L.A. Schmidt & S.J. Segalowitz (Eds.), Developmental Psychophysiology: Theory, Systems, and Applications, pp. 173-212. Cambridge University Press.

Courage, M.L., Reynolds, G.D., & Richards, J.E. (2006). Infants' visual attention to patterned stimuli: Developmental change from 3- to 12-months of age. Child Development, 77(3 ), 680-695.

Reynolds, G.D., & Richards, J.E. (2005). Familiarization, attention, and recognition memory in infancy: An ERP and cortical source localization study. Developmental Psychology,   41(4) ,598-615.

Reynolds, G.D., & Lickliter, R. (2004). Modified prenatal sensory stimulation influences postnatal behavioral and perceptual responsiveness in bobwhite quail chicks (Colinus Virginianus).  Journal of Comparative Psychology , 118 , 172-178.

Reynolds, G.D., & Lickliter, R. (2003). Effects of redundant and non-redundant bimodal stimulation on heart rate in bobwhite quail embryos. Developmental Psychobiology , 43 , 304-310..

Reynolds, G.D., & Lickliter, R. (2002). Effects of prenatal sensory stimulation on heart rate and behavioral measures of arousal in bobwhite quail embryos. Developmental Psychobiology , 41 , 112-122.

Greg Reynolds

Greg Reynolds

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2002)

Email: greynol3@utk.edu

Key words: infant visual attention, event-related potentials, cortical source localization