Peter J. Marshall, Ph.D.

 

Email:  peter.marshall@temple.edu
Phone: (215) 204-5744

Peter J. Marshall is currently Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Developmental Psychology area in the Department of Psychology.   He is also an active faculty member in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences area in the Department.  He has published more than 50 papers and book chapters on a variety of topics including early social cognition, emotional development, temperament and attachment, and the sequelae of early life adversity.

Dr. Marshall’s current program of research with infants, young children, and adults is focused on the overlap between action perception and action production and the relation of this overlap to developmental aspects of social engagement.  This line of studies combines neuroscience and behavioral methods and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.  Another recent line of research in his laboratory concerns the development of children’s understanding of brain function. 

Dr. Marshall received his B.A and Ph.D from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland. He joined the faculty at Temple in 2004. He teaches courses on infancy and developmental cognitive neuroscience, and in 2012 he received the Lindback award for distinguished teaching at Temple University.