Dr. Wagner joined the Psychology Department at CUNY College of Staten Island (CSI) in January 2013 and also has appointments in the Psychology Department at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Developmental Psychology training area and the Cognitive and Comparative Psychology training area. Before that, she received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University and then completed a postdoc at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Wagner has been using advanced tools (eye-tracking, psychophysiological measures, optical imaging, EEG) to study early social and cognitive development in typically-developing infants as well as infants at risk for developmental difficulties, such as autism spectrum disorder. Her research examines how early behavioral and brain responses might help to predict later development.

Sapir joined the lab in Fall 2017 as a graduate student in the CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. program in Developmental Psychology. Sapir received her B.A. in Psychology from Ben Gurion University in the Negev in 2015, and during her studies she started to gain work experience with toddlers with autism as an interventionist. Before joining the Ph.D. program, Sapir worked with toddlers with autism first as a teacher and then as an ABA therapist in her own clinic in Israel. Sapir's research interests focus on understanding the autonomic nervous system responses that might underlie characteristic behaviors in autism spectrum disorder, including restricted and repetitive behaviors.

Chloe began in 2018 as a graduate student in the CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. program in Cognitive and Comparative Psychology (formerly known as the Cognition Language, and Development program) studying low-level vision in the Applied Vision Institute at Brooklyn College. She joined the Cognitive Development Lab in Summer 2020 to pursue her interests in visual and attentional processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Chloe received her B.A. in Psychology and B.F.A. in Painting from SUNY New Paltz in 2013. She received her M.A. in Psychology from CUNY Hunter College in 2017 where she used visual evoked potentials to study excitation/inhibition in autistic children and children with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome at the Gordon Vision Lab in collaboration with the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment. Chloe also works in applied behavior analysis as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and NYS Licensed Behavior Analyst in the greater NYC area. Chloe’s research interests focus on using objective measures of eye-tracking, including pupillometry, to examine global and local processing in ASD.

Christian joined the lab in Fall 2019 as a graduate student in the CUNY Graduate Center Master’s program in Cognitive Neuroscience. He received his B.S. in Biology at University at Albany, SUNY. He is now working on his graduate thesis in the lab studying early neural responses to faces in infants with and without a family history of autism.

Maggie joined the lab in Fall 2020 as a graduate student in the CUNY Graduate Center Master’s program in Cognitive Neuroscience. She is now working on her graduate thesis in the lab and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Neuropsychology after graduation.

Alexis joined the lab in Summer 2018 and completed her Honor's thesis in Dr. Wagner's lab in 2019. Since completing her degree at CSI, Alexis has stayed on as lab coordinator for the Infant Sibling Project.

Keren joined the lab in Spring 2020 and is currently a senior at CSI double-majoring in Psychology and Elementary Education. Keren is working on a Psychology Honor's thesis in the lab and will begin a Psy.D. program in School-Clinical Child Psychology at Yeshiva University in Fall 2021.

Gagan joined the lab in Spring 2021 and is currently a senior majoring in Psychology at CSI. She is interested in pursuing a career in healthcare.

Julia joined the lab in Spring 2020 and is currently a high school senior at Saint Joseph Hill academy. She will begin college in the fall with plans to major in Pre-Medicine.