image: NYU Professor Karen Adolph
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named New York University Professor Karen Adolph a 2024 AAAS Fellow for her “distinguished contributions to the field of developmental psychology, particularly for increasing our understanding of infant motor development.”
This year, 471 members have been awarded the honor by AAAS; Adolph and her peers are being recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.
Adolph is a Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science and professor of applied psychology and child and adolescent psychiatry. She directs NYU’s Infant Action Lab, which studies human development by focusing on how infants and young children adapt to changes in their bodies and skills and to variations in their environments. Adolph’s research, which uses observable motor behaviors and a variety of technologies to study developmental processes, has offered insights into the nature of action, perception, cognition, and social interaction. She also leads the Databrary.org and PLAY (PLay and Learning Across a Year) projects, which enable open sharing and reuse of research video, and maintains the Datavyu.org video-coding tool.
Adolph is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. She has published more than 215 articles and chapters on perceptual motor development and has received the Kurt Koffka Medal, a Cattell Sabbatical Award, the Fantz Memorial Award, the Boyd McCandless Award, the ICIS Young Investigator Award, an NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, and FIRST and MERIT awards from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Adolph received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA and PhD from Emory University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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