Kristina Safar, Assistant Professor
MA and PhD (Toronto Metropolitan University), Postdoc (The Hospital for Sick Children)
Office: DNA C106
Email: kristinasafar@trentu.ca
Research Interests: Developmental cognitive neuroscience, Socio-emotional processing, Emotional face processing, Infancy, Children, Autism spectrum disorder, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Electroencephalography, Magnetoencephalography.
My research primarily focuses on the development of emotion processing and broader socio-emotional abilities in typical development and autism spectrum disorder using behavioural and neurophysiological approaches.
***Open to accepting Reading/Practicum students for WI 2025
2024-2025 Teaching:
- PSYC 2550H Theories of Human Development
- PSYC 3500H - Child Development
- PSYC 3510H - Dev Adolescnets/Young Adults
- PSYC 3550H- Adult Development