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Koraly Pérez-Edgar

Koraly

Perez-Edgar

McCourtney Professor of Child Studies and Professor of Psychology
Accepting graduate students for fall 2024
Preferred Pronouns: she/her/hers
270 Moore Building University Park, Pa 16802
(814) 865-9272

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph. D., Harvard University, 2001

Professional Bio

Research Interests

Koraly Pérez-Edgar is interested in the relations between temperament and psychopathology. In particular, children with the extreme temperamental trait of behavioral inhibition and shyness show increased risk for social anxiety. However, individual differences in attention mechanisms may play an important role in ameliorating or exacerbating these underlying vulnerabilities. In conducting her work, Dr. Pérez-Edgar has taken a multi-method approach involving direct observation of behavior and cognitive functioning, psychophysiology (EEG & ERP), and neuroimaging (fMRI). Her next projects examine the emergence of attention to threat in the first two years of life and use mobile eye-tracking technology to observe social behavior in young children.

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Koraly Perez-Edgar
Koraly Perez-Edgar

Labs

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Program Areas:

Developmental

Associated Centers:

CSC