Brenda Lundy

Brenda Lundy received her Ph.D. in developmental/experimental psychology from the University of Toledo, where her research focused on infant visual perception. She then spent time in Miami, Florida, as a postdoctoral research fellow at both Florida International University, where she studied the effects of stress on preschool children's memory for a natural disaster, and at the University of Miami Medical School, where she studied the impact of maternal depression on infant cognitive, social, and emotional development. Her current research focuses on parents’ attunement to children’s mental processes in relation to infant attachment and early social understanding.

Areas of Interest: maternal depression, parental mind-mindedness, attachment relationships, theory of mind, early social understanding