Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1759
Current Position
1977 - Present Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine (Assistant, 1977 - 1981; Associate, 1981 - 1986)
1983 - Present Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA (Associate, 1983 - 1986)
Other Positions (selected)
1998 - Present MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development
1992 Visiting Fellow, MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London, England
1983 - Present Research Investigator, Nutrition Collaborative Research Support ProgramC Kenya, Embu, Kenya, funded by U.S. Agency for International Development
1984 Professor Invité, Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Paris, France
1975 - 1976 Research Psychologist, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, England
1976 - 1977 Research Psychologist, Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of
1972 - 1975 Medicine
Education
1970 - 1972 Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain Research Institute, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences
1970 Ph.D., Boston University, Boston, MA
1963 B.A., Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
1961 - 1962 London School of Economics
Professional Activities/Honors (selected)
Program Chair, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1997-1999
Chair, Boyd McCandless Award Committee, Division 7 of American Psychological Association, 1996
Associate Editor, Child Development, 1989 – 1995
Founding President, International Society for Infant Studies, 1982 - 1988
Related and Significant Publications (selected)
Lefkowitz, E.S., Romo, L.F., Corona, R.A. Au, T. K-F., & Sigman, M. (2000). How Latino-American and European-American adolescents discuss conflicts, sexuality, and AIDS with their mothers. Developmental Psychology, 36, 315.
Sigman, M., & Ruskin, E. (1999). Change and continuity in the social competence of children with Autism, Down syndrome, and developmental delays. Monograph of the Society for Research in Child Development. London, England: Blackwell.
Corona, R., Dissanayake, C., Arbelle, S., Wellington, P., & Sigman, M. (1998). Is affect aversive to young children with Autism? Behavioral and cardiac response to experimenter distress. Child Development, 69, 1494-1502.
Whaley, S. E., Sigman, M., Espinosa, M.P., & Neumann, C.G. (1998). Infant predictors of cognitive development in an undernourished Kenyan population. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 19, 169-177.
Sigman, M., Cohen, S.E., & Beckwith, L. (1997). Why does infant attention predict adolescent intelligence? Journal of Infant Behavior & Development 20, 133-140. To be reprinted in A. Slater & D. Muir (Eds.) Essential Readings in Psychology: Infant Development. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
Kasari, C. & Sigman, M. (1997). Linking perceptions to interactions in young children with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 27, 39-57.
Bristol, M.M., Cohen, D.J., Costello, E.J., Denckla, M., Eckberg, T.J., Kallen, R., Kraemer, H.C., Lord, C. Maurer, R., McIlvane, W.J., Minshew, N., Sigman, M., & Spence, M.A. (1996). State of the science in Autism: report to the National Institutes of Health. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 26,121-154.
Sigman, M. (1995). Nutrition and child development: More food for thought. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 4, 52-55. Reprinted in DeLoache, J.S., Manglesdorf, S.C., & Pomerantz, E. (Eds.), Current Readings in Child Development, 1998, Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Sigman, M., McDonald, M.A., Neumann, C. & Bwibo, N. (1991). Prediction of cognitive competence in Kenyan children from toddler nutrition, family characteristics and abilities. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 32, 307-320.
Bornstein, M.H. & Sigman, M.D. (1986). Continuity in mental development from infancy. Child Development, 57, 251-274. Reprinted in J. Oates & S. Sheldon (Eds.), Cognitive development in infancy. 1987. Hove, England: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Current Research Support
1997 - 2002 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Program Project Grant: Determinants of Social Communication Skills in Autism
P.I. M. Sigman
1997 - 2002 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Contributors to Communication Skills in Autism
P.I. M. Sigman
2000 - 2002 MacArthur Foundation
Attention and Structural MRI in Children with Autism
P.I. B.J. Casey, Ph.D., Sackler Institute, N.Y.
1996 - 2001 National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant
Interdisciplinary Research in Childhood Psychopathology
P.I. M. Sigman
1997 - 2001 United States Agency for International Development
Role of Animal Source Foods to Improve Diet Quality, Growth, and Cognitive Development in East African Children
P.I. C. Neumann; Co-Investigator: M. Sigman
1999 - 2001 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
Role of Beef in Improving Growth, Cognitive Development and Health in Children
P.I. M. Sigman
1995 - 2001 United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
A Longitudinal Study of Siblings of Children with Autism
PI.: N. Yirmiya, Co-PI: M. Sigman