Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center
December 13, 2021
Rechele Brooks, PhD
Research Scientist
Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS)
| Work Summary: | Dr. Brooks is a research scientist at the Institute and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She received her BA from Pomona College and her PhD from Boston University. Her main line of research centers on the development of social cognition in infancy. Her areas of interest include the study of gaze following and pointing. She has been examining the development of these important social cues in infancy and the attributions infants make about others’ perceptions and goals. She is also interested in how early social cognition contributes to the understanding of language and theory of mind in children with typical and atypical development. |
| Links: | recheleb@uw.edu Research Scientist Profile Publications on Google Scholar |