Richard N. Aslin

Richard N. Aslin is Clinical Professor in the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in Yale's Psychology Department. For 33 years he was on the faculty of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester (NY) before moving to Yale in 2017. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Child Development in 1975 at the University of Minnesota. Aslin has contributed findings in several areas of developmental psychology, including studies of perceptual development, speech and language, and how infants learn the statistical regularities of their environments. For the past 15 years he has extended his behavioral work to neuroimaging methods, including fMRI, fNIRS, and EEG. His publications include over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, with an h-index of 94. Aslin is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the British Academy, the Atkinson Prize from the NAS, the Dickson Prize from CMU, and the Kurt Koffka Medal from Giessen University. He has also been awarded lifetime achievement and mentoring awards from APA and APS and an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University.