Patrick Leman
Patrick Leman is Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a former British Academy Senior Research Fellow, and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. His research focuses on children’s social development across a range of domains, including the development of gender and ethnic identity, social relationships, communication and learning, and the development of moral reasoning. He received a BA and MA in Psychology and Philosophy from Oxford University, UK, and a PhD in developmental psychology from University of Cambridge, UK. He previously held positions at University of Cambridge and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Andy Bremner
Andy completed his first degree in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford and then decided to stay and submit a DPhil (three years later) on ‘object representation in infancy and early childhood’ under the supervision of Professor Peter Bryant. Following two postdoctoral appointments in London and Brussels, in which he undertook further research into cognitive development in early life, Andy took up a job in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is now a senior lecturer. Andy conducts research into a variety of questions surrounding perceptual and cognitive development and cognitive neuroscience. Particular research interests include object recognition in infancy, the development of memory and cognitive control in the early preschool years, the development of spatial representations of the body and the environment in infancy and childhood, and the development of multisensory perceptual processes. Andy is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, and is on the Editorial Board of PLoS ONE. In 2009 he was awarded a €1.2 million grant by the European Research Council for a five-year research project investigating ‘human embodied multisensory development’.

Ross D. Parke
Ross D. Parke is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Family Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is past president of the Society for Research in Child Development and of Division 7, the Developmental Psychology Division, of the American Psychological Association; in 1995, he received the G. Stanley Hall award from this APA division. Ross was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997. He has served as Editor of both the Journal of Family Psychology and Developmental Psychology and as Associate Editor of Child Development, and has written and contributed to numerous books on development. His research has focused on early social relationships in infancy and childhood. He obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and is well known for his early work on the effects of punishment, aggression and child abuse, and for his work on the father’s role in infancy and early childhood. Parke’s current work focuses on the links between family and peer social systems, ethnic variations in families and the effects of the new reproductive technologies on families.

Mary Gauvain
Mary Gauvain is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and past secretary/treasurer of Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the APA. She is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Society for Research in Child Development. She is currently an associate editor of Child Development and is on the editorial board of the journals Child Development Perspectives and Cognitive Development. She is well known for her research on cognitive development, in particular for her research on social and cultural contributions to t he development of planning skills and spatial thinking. She obtained her MA in sociology of education from Stanford University and her PhD in psychology from the University of Utah. She has held postdoctoral positions in developmental psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Oregon Social Learning Center. Her current research focuses on the ecology of children’s everyday lives, including how experiences in the family and cultural community provide opportunities for the development of cognitive skills.