Julie Lumeng Lab
The Julie Lumeng lab is a part of the Michigan Medicine Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. We study the development of eating behavior in infancy and early childhood and parenting as it relates to feeding, eating, and growth.
If you are looking for the Carey Lumeng Lab, you can find it here.
We study questions like:
Do eating behaviors in infancy track into later childhood?
If infants are fed more often, do they eat less during each feeding?
How does liking for sugar and sweet tastes develop?
Is there a pattern to infant sucking that predicts future appetite?
How does picky eating develop?
Why are some infants more persistent in asking for food than others?
How does parenting shape the development of different eating behaviors?
Is food more soothing to some infants than others?
How does food contribute to parent-child bonding?
What is the biology underlying how infants eat?
We study these questions using questionnaires, game-like tasks with children and their parents, recording heart rates, and measuring hormones in saliva. Many of these activities can be done remotely.
