Cameron Ellis, PhD, MA, MS, BSc
Education:
| PhD | Yale University, 2021 |
| MA | Princeton University, 2017 |
| MS | University of Auckland, 2015 |
| BSc | University of Canterbury, 2012 |
Research Interests:
I study how basic building blocks of cognition emerge and mature in the developing brain, and seek to understand how we are adapted to the challenges we face during development. My previous research used fMRI with awake, behaving infants to ask 1) Why do infants learn fast but remember poorly? 2) How do infants exert control? 3) Why does infant vision take so long to develop? My current research asks how cognitive constraints during development scaffold language comprehension and production.
Representative Publications:
Ellis, C. T., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2018) Infant fMRI: A Model System for Cognitive Neuroscience, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22 (5), 375-387
Ellis, C. T., Skalaban, L. J., Yates, T. S., Bejjanki, V. R., Córdova, N. I., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2020). Re-imagining fMRI for awake behaving infants. Nature Communications, 11, 4523.
Ellis, C. T., Yates, T. S., Skalaban, L. J., Bejjanki, V. R., Arcaro, M. J., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2021). Retinotopic organization of visual cortex in human infants. Neuron, 109, 1-11.
Ellis, C. T., Skalaban, L. J., Yates, T. S., & Turk-Browne. N. B. (2021). Attention recruits frontal cortex in human infants. Proceedings of the National Academia of Sciences, 118 (12). e2021474118.
Ellis, C. T., Skalaban, L. J., Yates, T. S., Bejjanki, V. R., Córdova, N. I., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2021). Evidence of hippocampal learning in human infants. Current Biology, 31, 1-7.