Aurelien Frick

Dr. Aurelien Frick is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews (since 2023). He collaborates with Prof. Amanda Seed and the ABC lab, focusing on developmental and comparative psychology. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège (Belgium) in the GIGA-CRC In Vivo Imaging group. His research explores cognitive development, executive function, and social influences on child behavior.

• Education:
• B.A. Psychology, University of Tours (France)
• M.A. Cognitive Science, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
• PhD Psychology, University of Edinburgh (supervised by Dr. Nicolas Chevalier and Prof. Maria Brandimonte)

His work investigates how social contexts (e.g., unfamiliar experimenters, pedagogical cues) shape children’s cognitive control and learning mechanisms. Recent studies highlight overimitation in adolescents, proactive/reactive control in children, and reinterpreting executive function development through social interaction lenses.

Dr. Frick’s publications appear in Scientific Reports and Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. He has no listed awards but maintains active research collaborations in developmental and comparative psychology.

He contributes to the ABC lab’s interdisciplinary projects, integrating behavioral experiments with theoretical models of cognitive development. No advising roles or grants are explicitly mentioned in current records.