Tricia Striano

Tricia Striano is an American psychologist who is the head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

She obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from Emory University in 2000, after which she became Head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

In 2004, Tricia Striano received the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award[1] of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Sanctae Crucis Award of the College of the Holy Cross.

She built the Neurocognition and Development Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Leipzig.

Striano's main area of research is social cognition and learning in infancy, using brain and behavioral measures.