Leslie Carver, Ph.D., Director of the Developmental Neuroscience Lab
Leslie
Carver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and in
the Human Development Program at the Univsersity of California, San Diego,
where she is the Director of the Developmental Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
Laboratory. She earned her Ph.D. in Child Development at the University
of Minnesota in 1998. Her dissertation research, which uncovered links
between infants' behavioral performance on a long-term memory task and
associated brainwave responses, was one of the first studies to directly
link brain and behavior in early infancy. Dr. Carver has also published
several papers on face processing and social development in children and
adults with autism, as well as a paper on the importance of early intervention.
She has been awarded grants for her research on memory and social development
in human infants. She and Dr. Karen Dobkins, Ph.D., have support from
Autism Speaks to fund these longitudinal studies in autism.