Dr. Edgar is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Long Island University and Director of the Child Attention and Development Lab. She received a Ph.D. in Developmental Science from Florida International University and completed a NIMH T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University Child Study Center. Dr. Edgar’s research examines how attention in early childhood shapes learning and development. Her work focuses on multisensory attention—how children integrate sights and sounds—as a foundation for cognitive, language, and social-emotional development. Dr. Edgar is particularly interested in how attentional, neural, and behavioral factors contribute to the development and maintenance of anxiety across childhood. Using methods such as eye-tracking, behavioral observation, EEG, and computational modeling, alongside measures of children’s home and social environments, Dr. Edgar’s research links early attention to real-world developmental outcomes and aims to inform early identification and intervention strategies.