University of Colorado DenverCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity of Colorado Denver

Peter KaplanPeter S. Kaplan, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Psychology
Professor of Psychology

Office: NC 5002H
Office Phone: 303-556-2601
Fax: 303-556-3520

E-mail: peter.kaplan@cudenver.edu

Research Interests

  • Postpartum depression and child development
  • Infant learning
  • Infant-directed speech
  • Association learning
  • Habituation

Representative Publications

Kaplan, P. S., Burgess, A. P., & Sliter, J. K. (in press). Maternal sensitivity and the learning -promoting effects of depressed and non-depressed mothers' infant-directed speech. Infancy.

Kaplan, P. S., Sliter, J. K., & Burgess, A. P. (2007). Infant-directed speech produced by fathers with symptoms of depression: Effects on associative learning in a conditioned-attention paradigm. Infant Behavior & Development, 30, 535-545.

Kaplan, P. S., Dungan, J. K., & Zinser, M. C. (2004). Infants of chronically depressed mothers learn in response to male, but not female, infant-directed speech. Developmental Psychology, 40, 140-148.

Kaplan, P. S., Bachorowski, J.-A., Smoski, M. J., & Hudenko, W. J. (2002). Infants of depressed mothers, although competent learners, fail to learn in response to their own mothers’ infant-directed speech. Psychological Science, 13, 268-271.