Jukka Leppänen
jukka.leppanen@utu.fi +358 29 450 3493 +358 50 410 8623 |
Areas of expertise
Eye tracking, visual cognition, early development, individual differences
Eye tracking, visual cognition, early development, individual differences
Biography
Research
My research uses eye-tracking methods to examine elementary visual behaviors in infants and young children, particularly in situations that mimic natural dyadic (e.g., infant-parent) and triadic (i.e., infant-parent-objects) interactions. Of the many questions that are central to these topics, my current work focuses on individual differences in infant visual behavior, the origins of these differences, and their functional significance.
Teaching
Developmental psychology (PSYK8119) and cognitive neuroscience (PSYK3394 & PSYK3517).
Publications
- Retraction Note: Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline (2023)
- Behavior Research Methods
(Other publication) - Assessing infant cognition in field settings using eye-tracking: a pilot cohort trial in Sierra Leone (2022)
- BMJ Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Eye tracking based assessment of lexical processing and early lexical development in very preterm children (2022)
- Early Human Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal stress and development of infant attention to threat-related facial expressions (2022)
- Developmental Psychobiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Stability of Early Developing Attentional Bias for Faces and Fear From 8 to 30 and 60 Months in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study (2022)
- Developmental Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



