Caroline Junge is Associate Professor (with ius promovendi) on Individual differences in Youth, at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.
Her research focuses on the factors that play a role in early child development. To better grasp patterns of individual variation, she collaborates with researchers from various faculties, including those of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Medicine. Caroline examines the interplay between early brain development with environmental factors on predicting variation in language development (VIDI-grant 2023-2027; see also BRAVECHILD). Earlier, she examined whether a familiar voice (such as the child's mother) facilitates early word learning (personal VENI-grant fincanced by the Dutch Research Council). She is also responsible for the neurocognitive task battery in the grand-scale infant and pre-adolescent YOUth cohort studies from the Consortium Individual Development (CID), in which she focuses on the development of social competence. Here, she is the contact person for EEG recordings and language tasks (amongst others).
To grasp individual differences,she strongly believes that the measures that yield these differences should be valid. Another theme that consequently runs like a thread through her career is infant methodology. To illustrate, she participated in the ManyBabiesConsortium (ManyBabiesConsortium, 2020); she co-applied successfully for a replication grant with the Dutch universities鈥� Babylabs consortium (NWO 401.18.044; Applicant: Prof. Clara Levelt; Spit et al., 2023; Geambusu et al., 2023), and she compared different infant testing procedures with the same training-and-test paradigm (Junge, Everaert et al., 2020).