Special Seminar August 2026

Neuroscientific Evaluation of Risk in Early Childhood Psychopathology: Integrating Proximal and Distal Factors

Bio: Dr. Perlman’s multi-modal research program bridges the fields of Developmental Psychology and Cognitive neuroscience. Her work uses biological measurement combined with behavioral assessment to predict which preschool-age children are most at risk for the later development of psychopathology.  She employs multiple methodological techniques including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), psychophysiological measures, eye tracking, and other behavioral and questionnaire measures to conduct cognitive and neural analyses of mechanisms underlying the development of emotion and its effects on social interactions. Current research in her lab is focused on the parent-child relationship, specifically parent-child moment-to-moment interactive behavior, as well as other environmental influences on the family in the developmental progression of psychopathology.

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