Review Panel
Abstracts submitted for the 2026 congress will be reviewed by the following panels. Thank you to all chairs and panel members for their time and dedication to ICIS.
Panel 1: Motor and Sensorimotor Processes
Co-Chairs: Gustaf Gredeback, Uppsala University & Justine Hoch, Vanderbilt University
Panel 2: Development of New Methods
Co-Chairs: John Franchak, University of California Riverside & Mohinish Shukla University of Amsterdam
Panel 3: Understanding Mechanisms of Developmental Psychopathology
Co-Chairs: Cassandra Hendrix, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa & Courtney Fillipi, NYU Langone
Panel 4: Communication 1 (speech perception, phonology and word-level processes)
Co-Chairs: Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, University of Potsdam & Tineke Snijders, Tilburg University
Panel 5: Communication 2 (lexical processes, syntax, pragmatics, signed, nonverbal)
Co-Chairs: Marisa Casillas, University of Chicago & Adriana Weisleder, Northwestern University
Panel 6: Perception, Attention, Memory and Learning
Co-Chairs: Denise Werchan, University of California, Irvine & Julie Markant, Tulane University,
Panel 7: Cognitive Development
Co-Chairs: Denis Mareschal, Birbeck College, University of London & Jean Remy Hochmann, Institute for Cognitive Science
Panel 8: Social Development
Co-Chairs: Kaya de Barbaro, University of Texas, Austin & Bahia Guellai, University Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Panel 9: Emotional Development
Co-Chairs: Alessandra Geraci, University of Catania & Chiara Bulgarelli, Birbeck College, University of London
Panel 10: Translational science, policy and links between physical health and infant development
Co-Chairs: Natalie Brito, Columbia University & Lucianne Piccolo, Teachers College, Columbia University
Panel 11: Cultural Context
Co-Chairs: Lana Karasik, CUNY – College of Staten Island & Yana Kuchirko, CUNY – Brooklyn College
Panel 12: Pregnancy and Fetal Development
Co-Chairs: Kathryn Humphreys, Vanderbilt University & Danruo Zhong, Columbia University Medical Center