Current Members

LEAD Lab

Meet our lab's current members!

Principle Investigator

Emily Fyfe's CV   Emily Fyfe's PBS Profile Page   Google Scholar    
Emily Fyfe is the director of the LEAD Lab at Indiana University. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Her research is in cognitive development with a focus on the development of mathematics knowledge and problem solving. Her primary goal is to understand how children think and learn about math, both independently and with instructional guidance. 

Postdoctoral Fellows

Giulia Borriello

Giulia Borriello is a postdoctoral research associate in the LEAD Lab. She is interested in understanding individual differences in cognitive abilities and factors that contribute to their development, including effects of early life experiences and child and family characteristics. Giulia is particularly focused on investigating how transactions between heritable and environmental factors influence mathematics knowledge and spatial skills.

Amanda Grenell

Amanda Grenell is a postdoctoral fellow in the LEAD lab. Her research focuses on the relation between individual differences in cognitive skills, such as executive function, and science and math learning in early childhood. She is particularly interested in determining how cognition may influence the effectiveness of specific instructional approaches and materials to optimize learning.

Graduate Students

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Megan Merrick

Megan Merrick is a third-year graduate student at Indiana University-Bloomington, on track to receiving a PhD in developmental psychology. She is primarily fascinated by how features of a learning environment (e.g. feedback) affect educational outcomes (e.g. performance) for younger students pursing STEM domains. Prior to beginning graduate school in fall of 2020, Megan graduated cum laude from UC Berkeley in 2018, where she explored the intersection of developmental science and education. She then spent two years as a developmental psychology research coordinator at Stanford University, taking time to continue honing in on her research interests. Megan's goal is to bridge work in developmental psychology, education, and cognitive science to inform how to support children's learning and further the creation of effective learning environments.
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Tongyao Zhang

Tongyao Zhang is a second-year graduate student in LEAD lab at Indiana University Bloomington. She graduated from Beijing Normal University in 2020 with a B.S. in Psychology. Tongyao is interested in children's learning process of mathematics and scientific knowledge (e.g., patterning skills), and how different factors collaborate in relevant educational processes.

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