2023 Jacobus Fellow Mira Nencheva

Mira Nencheva, a fifth-year doctoral student in psychology who came to Princeton in 2018, earned her bachelor’s degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University and a master’s degree in psychological and brain sciences from Dartmouth College.

Her dissertation, “The dynamics of emotion and speech in early caregiver-child interactions,” focuses on the intertwined nature of emotion and speech in children’s first learning experiences.

Nencheva uses computational tools to investigate the dynamics of information that parents and children exchange during natural interactions, with the goal of understanding of how early communication shapes the development of emotion and language in tandem. “Kids receive information about so many different things when they are interacting with their caregivers,” she said. “They hear words they might not have heard before; they see their caregiver smile or use a particular intonation. Children have to track all this information as it’s changing from one moment to the next.” She has published three papers in major journals, and she has three more in review.

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