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Caitlin Fausey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon, part of the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on understanding how infants learn from their everyday sensory environments, using innovative methods such as wearable sensors to capture real-world visual, linguistic, and musical input.
Her research interests include developmental psychology, cognitive development, language acquisition, vision development, and music cognition in infancy. She emphasizes ecological validity in studying infant learning, arguing that traditional lab-based models often fail to reflect the true nature of infants' daily experiences. Her work bridges cognitive science and developmental psychology by modeling the structure and dynamics of natural input.
The recent publications highlight a strong focus on characterizing the everyday sensory ecology of infants, particularly in music and vision. Trends show a consistent effort to quantify real-world input, analyze episode-to-episode dynamics, and understand how repetition and variability in natural environments shape cognitive development.
- Principal Investigator, UO Learning Lab
- Research funded through university and external grants (implied by sponsored research context)
Dr. Fausey has contributed significantly to redefining how developmental scientists model infant experience. She mentors students through her lab, though she is not accepting new graduate students for Fall 2025. Her lab collaborates with interdisciplinary teams and trains researchers in naturalistic data collection methods.
She leads the UO Learning Lab, a research team dedicated to studying early learning through real-world data. The lab focuses on projects related to infant vision, language, and music, using home-based recordings and wearable technology to capture authentic developmental contexts.
