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
Childhood Linear Growth and Early Morbidity as Predictors of Adolescent Cognitive Ability in Malawi: A Prospective Observational Study (2025)
Acta Paediatrica
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
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
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Early Emerging Gradients in Children's Eye Movement Times Across Levels of Household Resources (2025)
Developmental Science
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Association between working memory performance and parent and teacher ratings of working memory in 11-year-old children born preterm (2024)
Child Neuropsychology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Exposure to the parents' speech is positively associated with preterm infant's face preference (2024)
Pediatric Research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Markers of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Are Associated with Poor Growth and Developmental Outcomes among Young Children in Lusaka, Zambia (2024)
Journal of Pediatrics
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Reciprocal relationships between a child’s engagement with faces and mother–child interaction at 8, 30, and 60 months (2024)
Developmental Psychology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Retraction Note: Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline (2023)
Behavior Research Methods
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Eye tracking: empirical foundations for a minimal reporting guideline (2023)
Behavior Research Methods
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Evaluation of a community health worker home visit intervention to improve child development in South Africa: A cluster-randomized controlled trial (2023)
PLoS Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))