Dr. Naseem Choudhury

naseem@axon.rutgers.edu
 

Dr. Choudhury is Assistant Research Professor at the Infancy Studies Laboratory, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. She earned her doctorate in General Experimental Psychology from the University of Vermont in May 1999. Pursuing her interest in cognition and early development, she concentrated her research on issues of individual differences in information processing and the mechanisms supporting cognition during the first two to four years of life. She continues to work in the area of infant cognition, focusing her research on the study of attentional processes and speed of processing in traditional and non-traditional populations. Under the mentorship of Prof. Kathleen S. Gorman, Dr Choudhury has also worked with normal and at-risk groups in the United States, Guatemala, and China. She has studied developmental processes in low birth weight children, intraruterine growth restricted infants, malnourished children, and in populations with specific nutritional deficiencies (iodine). In these groups, she has pursued her interests in infant information processing and the role of microsystems (e.g. early nutrition, prenatal insult, biological risk, and parental characteristics) and macrosystems (e.g. cultural beliefs and practices regarding child rearing, notion of intelligence in the context of culture) on early cognitive development. Dr. Choudhury joined the Infancy Studies Laboratory in August 1999 as a post-doctoral research fellow, and currently directs and implements our study on electrocortical and behavioral measures of temporal integration as predictors of speech development.  Doctoral Dissertation The role of attention in infant information processing. University of Vermont Masters Thesis The validity of reaction time as a measure of intelligence in a rural Guatemalan population. University of Vermont

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