Robert Earl Lickliter is an American developmental psychologist and professor at

Florida International University Florida International University (FIU) is a public university, public research university with its main campus in Miami-Dade County. Founded in 1965, the school opened its doors to students in 1972. FIU has grown to become the third-largest uni ...

. He is known for researching the development of intersensory

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and

selective attention Attentional control, colloquially referred to as concentration, refers to an individual's capacity to choose what they pay attention to and what they ignore. It is also known as endogenous attention or executive attention. In lay terms, attenti ...

human Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...

s and other

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s. He is a fellow of the

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and the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology.

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* Living people American developmental psychologists 21st-century American psychologists Florida International University faculty University of California, Davis alumni Virginia Tech faculty American neuroscientists Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-psychologist-stub