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Applied developmental researchers at FIU focus on discovering and applying new knowledge about human development to provide preventive and/or enhancing interventions. They seek to promote positive development across the lifespan, including individual differences and the wide range of familial, societal, cultural, physical, ecological, and historical settings of human development.
For instance, the Lifespan Developmental Science program at FIU is unique in its integration of a lifespan orientation with an interdisciplinary focus on both basic and applied developmental science in an international, multicultural urban context. FIU’s Developmental Psychobiology Laboratory utilizes a developmental systems perspective, focusing on understanding the development of inter-sensory perception. Utilizing an animal model, the bobwhite quail, researchers work to identify and explore the prenatal and postnatal experiential factors involved in early perceptual learning and development. In addition, the Infant Development Lab at FIU is known for its research in the areas of infant perceptual and cognitive development. Here, researchers study infants' abilities to perceive, learn, remember and organize the world around them.
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June 4, 2009 10:13 AM
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