Sarah Lloyd-Fox

Sarah Lloyd-Fox is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the School of Biological Sciences and the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on early development, developmental neuroscience and behaviour, longitudinal research, poverty-associated factors, individual differences, and mental health. She investigates how early brain function and behaviour evolve during the perinatal period and how individual differences in neurodevelopmental trajectories relate to challenges associated with poverty in the UK. Her work employs techniques such as functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), electroencephalogram (EEG), cognitive behavioural measures, and analyses of parent-infant interactions and home environments.

Sarah Lloyd Fox is a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, specializing in the use of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to study brain development in infants. Her research explores how early neural specialization for social and communicative stimuli, such as voice and face processing, is influenced by factors like poverty and global health conditions. Fox's work investigates the neural mechanisms underlying social perception, body awareness, and the development of cognitive functions in infants, particularly in low-resource settings. Her studies contribute to understanding developmental disorders, including autism, by examining early cortical responses to social stimuli and their association with later behavioral outcomes.