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ERIM KIZILDERE

Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant at University of California, Davis

Developmental Psychology

Inspired by how play develops shared spheres among humans, invokes happiness and imagination, provides unique experiences to learn and reason about the world, Erim is interested in play engaged by infants to preschoolers.

He has two main focuses:

  1. How play is connected with children's socio-cognitive abilities including language, theory of mind, and executive functions.
  2. How parent-infant interactions during play provide learning opportunities to infants to reason and learn about the world (e.g., parental pretense or spatial language input scaffolding infants' word comprehension or mental rotation skills).
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