Robert Lickliter

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Robert Lickliter is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Infant Development Research Center at Florida International University. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Human Development and a Ph.D. in Animal Behavior from the University of California, Davis in 1983. From 1983-1986 he was a postdoctoral fellow in Developmental Psychobiology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Professor Lickliter moved to Virginia Tech 1986 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1991 and Full Professor in 1996.

He has served as an editorial board member for the journals Developmental Psychobiology, Infancy, the Journal of Comparative Psychology, and the Journal of Developmental Processes. He is currently Associate Editor of Developmental Science and Chair of the working group on Biology, Development and Evolution of the Council on Human Development, concerned with the role of basic science in policies and legislation affecting infants, children, and their families.

Professor Lickliter is the author of over 100 publications on perceptual development in both animal and human infants, on the role of intersensory perception in early attention, learning, and memory, and on developmental psychobiological systems theory. Recent publications include a Handbook of Child Psychology chapter on the significance of biology for human development, a Psychological Bulletin target article on the relationship between developmental and evolutionary theory, and an Advances in Child Development and Behavior chapter on the role of intersensory redundancy in guiding early perceptual and cognitive development.

He is a member of the International Society for Infant Studies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association (Fellow, Division 6), the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Professor Lickliter is past President of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, was the recipient of a Research Scientist Career Development Award (1996-2001) from the National Institute of Mental Health, and received the American Psychological Association’s Frank Beach Comparative Psychology Award in 1997.
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