Szilvia Biro

Szilvia Biro is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University's Department of Psychology, affiliated with both the Institute for Psychological Research and the Babylab Leiden. Her research focuses on social-cognitive development in infancy, particularly how infants form expectations about the world through action understanding, attachment behaviors, and autism-related cognitive impairments.

Research Trends: Her work spans

• Developmental psychology of intentional action
• Action–effect binding in infants
• Pupillometric and oculomotor paradigms
• Neural mechanisms of social cognition
• Autism spectrum disorder in early childhood
• Long-term memory ontogeny

She employs high-density EEG, mirror neuron system studies, and behavioral experiments to explore these topics.