Robert Lickliter, Ph.D.
Principle Investigator
office: 305-348-3441 lab: 305-348-1230
Robert Lickliter is Professor in the
Department of Psychology
and Co-Director of the
Infant
Development Research Center at
Florida International University. He
received a B.S. and M.S. in Human Development and a Ph.D. in Animal Behavior
from the University of California, Davis in 1983. From 1983-1986 he was a
postdoctoral fellow in Developmental Psychobiology at the University of
North Carolina, Greensboro. Professor Lickliter moved to Virginia Tech 1986
as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1991
and Full Professor in 1996.
He has served as
an editorial board member for the journals
Developmental Psychobiology,
Infancy,
the Journal of Comparative Psychology, and
the
Journal of Developmental Processes. He is
currently Associate Editor of
Developmental Science and Chair of the
working group on Biology, Development and Evolution of the
Council on Human
Development, concerned with the role of basic science in policies
and legislation affecting infants, children, and their families.
Professor
Lickliter is the author of over 100 publications on perceptual development
in both animal and human infants, on the role of intersensory perception in
early attention, learning, and memory, and on developmental psychobiological
systems theory. Recent publications include a
Handbook of Child Psychology chapter on the
significance of biology for human development, a Psychological Bulletin
target
article on the relationship between developmental and
evolutionary theory, and an
Advances in Child Development and Behavior
chapter on the role of intersensory redundancy in guiding early perceptual
and cognitive development.
He is a member
of the International
Society for Infant Studies,
the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the
American Psychological Association (Fellow,
Division
6), the
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology,
and the Society for
Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Professor
Lickliter is past President of the International Society for Developmental
Psychobiology, was the recipient of a Research Scientist Career Development
Award (1996-2001) from the
National Institute of Mental Health, and
received the American Psychological Association’s Frank Beach Comparative
Psychology Award in 1997.
