Charles A Nelson

I have more than 25 years of experience working in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. My laboratory employs a variety of behavioral and neuroimaging tools, including eye-tracking, EEG, ERP, fNIRS, sMRI, and fMRI. There are three lines of research currently active in my laboratory. One concerns the development and neural bases of processing social information (e.g., facial emotion); a second focuses on trajectories to autism, with a particular focus on populations at high risk for developing autism (e.g., infants with an older sibling with autism; children with various single gene mutations that appear to confer risk for developing autism); a third focuses on the effects of early adversity on brain and behavioral development.