Jukka
Leppänen
Professor, Psychology
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Areas of expertise
Eye tracking
visual cognition
early development
individual differences
Teaching
Developmental psychology (PSYK8119) and cognitive neuroscience (PSYK3394 & PSYK3517).
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.
Publications
The role of parent–child dysfunctional interaction and difficult child on early childhood neurodevelopment: Cross-sectional study from rural Limpopo, South Africa (2026)
South African Journal of Childhood Education
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Predictors of saccadic reaction time among young children in Lusaka, Zambia (2026)
PLoS ONE
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Taking a bottom–up, data-driven approach to characterizing variability across early-life environments (2026)
American Psychologist
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No Consistent Evidence for Family Concordance in Eye‐Tracking‐Based Assessment of Face Engagement – A Finnbrain Birth Cohort Study (2026)
Social Development
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Childhood Linear Growth and Early Morbidity as Predictors of Adolescent Cognitive Ability in Malawi: A Prospective Observational Study (2025)
Acta Paediatrica
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Eye-tracking measures of oculomotor speed and control as markers of cognitive ability in Malawian adolescent population: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial (2025)
PLOS Global Public Health
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Early Emerging Gradients in Children's Eye Movement Times Across Levels of Household Resources (2025)
Developmental Science
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Association between working memory performance and parent and teacher ratings of working memory in 11-year-old children born preterm (2024)
Child Neuropsychology
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Exposure to the parents' speech is positively associated with preterm infant's face preference (2024)
Pediatric Research
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Markers of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Are Associated with Poor Growth and Developmental Outcomes among Young Children in Lusaka, Zambia (2024)
Journal of Pediatrics
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