Eccles, Eliza

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Eccles, Eliza Graduate Faculty

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Associate Professor, Psychology , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

elnelson@fiu.edu

biography

Dr. Nelson's research focuses on motor development in children and nonhuman primates. Her comparative research program brings together developmental science, neuroscience, and primatology. Dr. Nelson utilizes longitudinal behavioral methods, as well as high-speed motion tracking technology, to study the interplay between the organization of the motor system and the emergence of sophisticated abilities such as motor planning, tool use, and language. Dr. Nelson has published on a number of different primate species including black and white ruffed lemurs, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees. This work has appeared in journals such as Developmental Science and the American Journal of Primatology. In 2011, Dr. Nelson received the Hennessy- Smotherman-Wiley Best Student Paper Award from the journal Developmental Psychobiology. Dr. Nelson conducts projects with human infants and toddlers on the FIU campus and parallel studies at Monkey Jungle in South Dade.

research interests

Research Areas
Motor development
Motor control
Cognitive neuroscience

selected scholarly works & creative activities

Article
- 2022
  
  Insights Into Human and Nonhuman Primate Handedness From Measuring Both Hands. CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 31:154-161.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/09637214211062876
- 2018
  
  Goal-directed tail use in Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris) is highly lateralized. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. 132:40-47.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/com0000094
- 2017
  
  Toddler hand preference trajectories predict 3-year language outcome. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY. 59:876-887.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.21560 Web of Science: 000412450000007
- 2017
  
  Embraces are lateralized in spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY. 79.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22654 Web of Science: 000403923100008
- 2015
  
  Precise digit use increases the expression of handedness in Colombian spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY. 77:1253-1262.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22478 Web of Science: 000363892500002
- 2015
  
  Addressing the gap: a blueprint for studying bimanual hand preference in infants. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 6:1-4.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00560 Web of Science: 000354821200001
- 2015
  
  Handedness influences intermanual transfer in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) but not rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. 233:829-837.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4158-8 Web of Science: 000349554600014
- 2015
  
  Evaluating handedness measures in spider monkeys. ANIMAL COGNITION. 18:345-353.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10071-014-0805-5
- 2014
  
  Hand preference status and reach kinematics in infants. INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT. 37:615-623.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.08.013
- 2014
  
  Early handedness in infancy predicts language ability in toddlers. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 50:809-814.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0033803
- 2013
  
  How the development of handedness could contribute to the development of language. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY. 55:608-620.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/dev.21121
Book Chapter
- 2013
  
  Multiple Trajectories in the developmental psychobiology of human handedness. 227-260.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397946-9.00009-9
Conference
- 2014
  
  HANDEDNESS INFLUENCES INTERMANUAL TRANSFER IN CHIMPANZEES (PAN TROGLODYTES) BUT NOT RHESUS MONKEYS (MACACA MULATTA). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY. 51-51.
  Web of Science: 000349374300045
- 2013
  
  LATERALIZED COORDINATED TAIL-HAND SEQUENCE IN SPIDER MONKEYS (ATELES FUSCICEPS RUFIVENTRIS). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY. 57-57.
  Web of Science: 000323414700086
Review
- 2016
  
  Quantifying Motor Experience in the Infant Brain: EEG Power, Coherence, and Mu Desynchronization. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00216 Web of Science: 000370556900001

principal investigator on

Infant motor skill trajectories and language outcomes awarded by Child Health and Human Development 2019 - 2022
Development of MacArthur-Bates Forms and Norms for Children from Varied Spanish Language Communities awarded by San Diego University 2014 - 2018

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Eliza Eccles

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