Richard Aslin

Richard Aslin is Clinical Professor at the Child Study Center in the Yale School of Medicine and the Department of Psychology at Yale University.  Prior to joining Yale in 2017 he was on the faculty at the University of Rochester for 33 years, where he established the Rochester BabyLab and was Director of the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging for 14 years. Aslin has published widely in several sub-areas of infant development, including perceptual and motor systems, speech and language acquisition, and statistical learning.  In the past decade, Aslin has focused on extending his research from behavioral methods to neuroimaging measures using fMRI, EEG, and fNIRS, showing among several findings that the infant brain deploys predictive signals to encode expected events much like the adult brain.  Aslin is the recipient of several major awards, including the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (2014) and the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences (2020), and several honors, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and the National Academy of Sciences (2013).