Lisa Scott was a 2018-2020 Learning Sciences Exchange fellow at New America.
Sector: Research
Project: Read the Right Books at the Right Time
Team Members: Sujata Gupta (journalism), Katie Whitehouse (policy), Rob Carpenter (entertainment)
Scott leads a laboratory-based experimental research program that aims to understanding how infants, children, and adults attend, perceive and learn about the visual world. Her research uses measures of behavior, eye-tracking, and EEG to better understand learning and neural specialization over time and across development. Dr. Scott is currently a Jacobs Foundation Learning Sciences Exchange International Fellow, she was awarded the Women in Cognitive Science Leadership Award in 2018, she held the UF College of Liberal Arts and Science’s Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professorship from 2018-2019 and was a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow in 2014. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 2011, including a CAREER Award, and she has had funding from the National Institutes of Health and from the US Army Research Institute for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. She has published in interdisciplinary journals including: Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Child Development, Neuropsychologia, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science, and Infancy. Dr. Scott is a member of the United Faculty of Florida’s UF Union Bargaining Team and is currently working to improve policies, support systems, and resources for women and minoritized groups at the University of Florida.