Dr. Maria Arredondo


Assistant Professor

Research Themes:  The Communicating Mind and Body

 Dr. Maria Arredondo is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences.

Dr. Arredondo earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Arredondo is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, interested in infant and child language and cognitive development. She is especially interested in how early bilingual experiences influence child language, cognitive, and academic development. To pursue her research interests she uses both behavioral and neuroimaging (fNIRS, fMRI) methods.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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