86 - Cameron Ellis: Using fMRI to study what it is like to be an infant
Stanford Psychology Podcast
The Future of Cognitive Psychology in Infants
As a scientist, I'm broadly interested in understanding perception, attention, control, learning and memory. And one of the really exciting things about my research program is that I actually feel like I can kind of tackle all of them by investigating infants. So for instance, most people don't have any memories from any age before about three and a half years of old. Yet, if you talk to an infant who are even a toddler, so say a two year old, they can report memories. They've got some types of memories that they have, yet those memories are not possessed into adulthood or even childhood. There's something different and unique about the nature of the learning and memory system that I
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