Research Areas:
- Brain development across the lifespan
- Infant, child, and adolescent cognition and socio-emotional development
- Social motivation and affective responses to ostracism
- Genetic factors of neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability)
Her work utilizes multiple cognitive neuroscience techniques (EEG/ERP, fMRI, eye tracking) to pinpoint areas of divergence associated with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder. Dr. Hudac is interested in these processes across the lifespan, including newborns, infants, children, and adults.
I study how factors within early infancy and childhood affect brain development and may have consequences for developmental trajectories.
I am a developmental cognitive neuroscientist interested in how infants, children, and adults learn and think about other people. My research focuses on the development of the social brain, including basic processes (e.g., social attention, intrinsic social motivation) and higher-ordered social cognition (e.g., understanding goal-oriented behavior, reasoning about others).
Keywords:
- Understanding the social brain
- Healthy and atypical development
- Addressing disparities
Keywords: developmental cognitive neuroscience; social cognition; social attention; social motivation; emotion perception and regulation; neurodevelopment disorders (NDD) including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID); genetic etiology of NDD
