The Spiker Memorial Lecture honors Charles W. Spiker's influential research and educational leadership in the field of experimental child psychology. Following Spiker's death in 1993, his students and colleagues endowed this memorial lectureship to honor all that he stood for. Its purpose is to bring to Iowa today's outstanding minds in developmental psychology.

Nim Tottenham is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her research interests include developmental affective neuroscience, emotion, and development. The research of the Developmental Affective Neuroscience Lab focuses on the development of neural circuits that underlie affective behaviors across childhood and adolescence, with a particular emphasis on limbic-cortical connections (e.g., amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex).

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Dr. Tottenham's bio page: https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/nim-tottenham