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Overview

Michelle de Haan is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive and developmental processes in early childhood. The scientist's work is categorized primarily under the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions in subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, and Clinical Psychology.

The research topics that de Haan has explored include:

  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Michelle de Haan has authored several recent papers, with notable examples including:

  • "ERP markers are associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes in 1-5 month old infants in rural Africa and the UK" (2020) published in NeuroImage
  • "Late- but not early-onset blindness impairs the development of audio-haptic multisensory integration" (2020) published in Developmental Science
  • "Developmental trajectories of infants born at less than 30 weeks' gestation on the Bayley-III Scales" (2020) published in Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal
  • "Mother-infant interactions with infants with congenital visual impairment and associations with longitudinal outcomes in cognition and language" (2020) published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • "Longitudinal fNIRS and EEG metrics of habituation and novelty detection are correlated in 1-18-month-old infants" (2023) published in NeuroImage

The most frequent publication venues for de Haan include:

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • NeuroImage
  • Developmental Science
  • Children
  • Infancy

Collaborations have featured various frequent coauthors, notably:

  • Iroise Dumontheil
  • Mark H. Johnson
  • Laura Katus
  • Luke Mason
  • Sophie E. Moore

Best Publications

  • Is Face Processing Species-Specific During the First Year of Life?

    Olivier Pascalis;Michelle de Haan;Charles A. Nelson

  • Specialization of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Face Recognition in Human Infants

    Michelle De Haan;Olivier Pascalis;Mark H. Johnson

  • Annual research review: Parenting and children’s brain development: The end of the beginning.

    Jay Belsky;Michelle de Haan

  • Disordered visual processing and oscillatory brain activity in autism and Williams syndrome.

    Sarah J. Grice;Michael W. Spratling;Annette Karmiloff-Smith;Hanife Halit

  • The emergence of the social brain network: Evidence from typical and atypical development

    Mark H Johnson;Richard Griffin;Gergely Csibra;Hanife Halit

  • Development of face-sensitive event-related potentials during infancy: a review

    Michelle de Haan;Mark H. Johnson;Hanife Halit

  • Modulation of event-related potentials by prototypical and atypical faces.

    Halit H;de Haan M;Johnson Mh

  • Categorical perception of facial expressions by 7-month-old infants.

    Eleni Kotsoni;Michelle de Haan;Michelle de Haan;Mark H Johnson

  • Maternal Personality and Infants' Neural and Visual Responsivity to Facial Expressions of Emotion.

    Michelle de Haan;Jay Belsky;Vincent Reid;Agnes Volein

  • Brain and cognitive‐behavioural development after asphyxia at term birth

    Michelle de Haan;John S. Wyatt;Simon Roth;Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

  • Infant EEG and event-related potentials

    Michelle de Haan

  • Prevalence and risk factors for autism spectrum disorder in epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Lauren Strasser;Michelle Downes;Jane Kung;J Helen Cross

  • Human memory development and its dysfunction after early hippocampal injury.

    Michelle de Haan;Mortimer Mishkin;Torsten Baldeweg;Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

  • Deferred Imitation of Action Sequences in Developmental Amnesia

    Anna-Lynne R. Adlam;Faraneh Vargha-khadem;Mortimer Mishkin;Michelle De Haan

  • Developing a brain specialized for face perception: a converging methods approach.

    Michelle de Haan;Kate Humphreys;Mark H. Johnson

  • Recording and analyzing high-density event-related potentials with infants. Using the Geodesic sensor net.

    M. H. Johnson;M. De Haan;A. Oliver;W. Smith

  • Heterogeneity in the patterns of neural abnormality in autistic spectrum disorders: evidence from ERP and MRI.

    Claire H. Salmond;Faraneh Vargha-Khadem;David G. Gadian;Michelle de Haan

  • Event-related potential measures of executive functioning from preschool to adolescence

    Michelle Downes;Joe Bathelt;Michelle De Haan

  • Neonatal Hypoxia, Hippocampal Atrophy, and Memory Impairment: Evidence of a Causal Sequence

    Janine M. Cooper;David G. Gadian;Sebastian Jentschke;Allan Goldman

  • Early developmental outcomes in children following convulsive status epilepticus: a longitudinal study

    Marina M. Martinos;Michael Yoong;Shekhar Patil;Wui K. Chong

  • Explicit memory in low-risk infants aged 19 months born between 27 and 42 weeks of gestation.

    Michelle de Haan;Patricia J Bauer;Michael K Georgieff;Charles A Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian G. R. Neville
Brian G. R. Neville University College London
Mark H. Johnson
Mark H. Johnson University of Cambridge
Rod C. Scott
Rod C. Scott University of Vermont
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem University College London
Torsten Baldeweg
Torsten Baldeweg University College London
Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin National Institutes of Health
J. Helen Cross
J. Helen Cross Great Ormond Street Hospital
Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Olivier Pascalis
Olivier Pascalis Grenoble Alpes University
Karalyn Patterson
Karalyn Patterson MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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