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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.
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