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Zsuzsa Kaldy

University of Massachusetts Boston

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Professor (Associate, Full, Senior Lecturer or above)

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What makes infants' working memory work?
Visual attentional mechanisms in 2-year-olds diagnosed with ASD

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Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy received her M.A. in Psychology from Eotvos Lorand University, in Budapest, Hungary, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Rutgers University. She has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 2003, where she is currently Professor. Her main research focus is on the early development of visual attention and working memory. She has developed several innovative experimental paradigms to study these processes, using high-frequency eye-tracking and pupillometry. In collaboration with Alice Carter, and Erik Blaser (UMass Boston) and Nancy Kanwisher (MIT), she has been investigating the unusual profile of visual attentional skills in 2-year-olds diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The ultimate goal of this effort is to understand the emergence of restricted interests, a core diagnostic symptom in ASD. Dr. Kaldy’s work has been funded by NIH and the Simons Foundation.