Kevin Pelphrey PhD
Harris Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and Associate Professor of Psychology; Director of the Child Neuroscience Laboratory
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): NeuroscienceInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program
Child Study Center: Yale Autism Program
Biography
Dr. Kevin Pelphrey completed his doctoral studies in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. He then undertook postdoctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University.
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Education
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 2001
Selected Publication
- Saxe, R., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Scholz, J., Pelphrey, K. A. (2009). Brain Regions for Perceiving and Reasoning About Other People in School-Aged Children, Child Development, 80, 1197-1209.
Articles
Nov/Dec 2012
Project to explore roots of autism in girls
The reasons why autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are almost five times more common among boys than among girls may soon...
Nov/Dec 2009
Harris Professor probes development of social cognition in autism
Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., the newly designated Harris Family Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study...
December 2010
How the brain may find a way around autism
Research at the medical school’s Child Study Center (CSC) has shown that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can disrupt...
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