Patricia Ganea
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Dr. Patricia Ganea is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto.
Research Interest
Dr. Ganea's primary research area is early cognitive development. She investigates the processes involved in young children's learning about the world through symbolic means, such as language, pictures, videos, and replica objects. She is especially interested in children's use of language to think and communicate about what is perceptually not present. Developing the ability to communicate about absent objects and events is a major cognitive achievement, one that enables children to learn about the world indirectly. Her research is focusing on the social, linguistic and representational factors that influence children's learning about the world. She is also interested in how children develop an understanding of the pragmatics of language and of social cognition.
