Our Team

Principal Investigator

Amanda Brandone, PhD

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I am an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Lehigh University. I joined the Lehigh faculty in 2010 after completing my PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan and my BA in Psychology at Boston College. My research examines the development of conceptual knowledge in infancy and early childhood, the mechanisms by which this knowledge changes across development, and how early conceptual knowledge lays the groundwork for mature human cognition. My work explores how infants and young children develop an understanding of people and how young children organize their knowledge about the world into categories.

Graduate Students

Wenyan Feng

PhD Student (2021 - present)

I am a doctoral student in the Psychology Department at Lehigh University. I received my BA in Psychology from Muhlenberg College and my MA in Psychology from Boston University. My research examines the mechanisms that facilitate children's cognitive development. Specifically, I'm interested in investigating how parental input in parent-child interactions facilitates children's learning.

Ashley Dautrich

PhD Student (2023 - present)

I am a doctoral student in the Psychology Department at Lehigh University. I received my BA with a double major in Psychology and Italian from Franklin & Marshall College. I am interested in how infants and young children learn language and develop both cognitively and socially within the first few years of life. Considering how impactful children's parents are during this period, I am also interested in how children's play interactions with their parents facilitate their learning in these areas.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Constance MulliganPsychology Major Political Science Minor (Class of 2026)

Alexa SegalPsychology MajorSociology & Spanish Minors(Class of 2026)

Maia WainwrightPsychology MajorBiology Minor (Class of 2026)

Hannah GonzalesCognitive Science MajorHealth, Medicine, & Society Major(Class of 2027)

Erin Smith-DillsCognitive Science MajorWGSS Major(Class of 2027)

Ali SteinPsychology MajorMarketing Minor(Class of 2027)

Ascha BobbPsychology MajorCognitive Science Minor(Class of 2028)

Maddie PillaPsychology MajorBusiness & Mass Comm Minors(Class of 2028)

Rachel RoseNeuroscience Major(Class of 2028)

Lab Alumni

Wyntre Stout, PhD

PhD Student (2014 - 2021)

Eugene Rohrer, MS

MS Student (2017 - 2021)

Kelsey Moty, PhD

Lab Manager (2014 - 2016)

Undergraduate Honors Student Alumni

Malika Rattansi - Psychology BA (2025)Sophie Weisenfeld - Psychology BA (2025)Jenna Van Valkenburg - Psychology BA (2025)Gabriella Ledis - Psychology BA (2024)Ryan Sullivan - Cognitive Science BS (2023)Zhangzhicun (Wendy) Xu - Psychology BS (2021)Julia Weinkauf - Psychology BS (2019)Sophie Davis - Cognitive Science BA (2018)Brittany Klimek - Psychology BA (2016)Jacqueline Werner - Psychology and WGSS BA (2014)

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