Gudrun Schwarzer

Gudrun Schwarzer is a Professor of Developmental Psychology (W3) at the Department of Psychology and Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen. Her research focuses on how early visual, auditory, and motor experiences shape infants' and children's perception, cognition, and emotion processing.

• Multidisciplinary approach combining Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cross-Cultural Studies
• Key research areas: Mental Rotation, Emotion Recognition, Object Processing, and Developmental Language Disorders

Research highlights: Demonstrated crawling's influence on emotion discrimination and mental rotation abilities, developed interventions for emotional granularity in narratives, and explored cross-cultural differences in motor development.

Scientific contributions: Published extensively in journals like Child Development Perspectives, Frontiers in Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, with a focus on sensory-motor integration and emotional cognition.

• Awards: Heinz Heckhausen Young Scientist Prize (1991), DFG Fellowship (1997-1998), Volkswagen Foundation Scholarship (1988-1991)
• Students: Daniela Bahn, Bianca Jovanovic, Julia Dillmann, Lucie Preißler, and several PhD researchers