Jessica Kosie is an assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences as a member of the Cognition, Behavior and Information (CBI) research cluster. She received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of Oregon. Before joining ASU, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University.
The goal of Dr. Kosie’s research is to understand how features of infants’ everyday environment impact learning and development. Her work involves the collection and analysis of both small- and large-scale datasets, focusing in particular on naturally-occurring phenomena in infants’ lives. She uses a combination of observational, behavioral, and neuroscientific methods to characterize variation in infants’ everyday input, examine sources of this variation (within and across contexts, communities, and cultures), and investigate links between early input and developing communicative skills. Dr. Kosie is also actively involved in global, multi-lab efforts to replicate and investigate key phenomena in developmental science (i.e., ManyBabies). Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Einstein Foundation.