Dr. Tess Forest

I am a developmental cognitive neuroscientist interested in how people learn. My research explores the ways brain and cognitive development shape what and how we learn, as well as the ways our early environments set the stage for future learning. I answer these sorts of questions by combining tools and theoretical approaches from developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and computer science, such as eye-tracking, naturalistic observations of dyadic interactions, and pediatric neuroimaging.

I am an F32-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University where I work with Dima Amso. In 2022, I completed my PhD at the University of Toronto, where I trained with Amy Finn and Meg Schlichting. Before that, I worked at the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, and in developmental psychology labs at my Alma mater, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

You can check out my publications to learn more. You can download my CV here.