Kate Brunick is a research scientist whose work has focused on children’s perception and low-level statistical features of children’s media. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Cornell University where she explored how design features of children’s media interface with children’s perceptual development. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Digital Media Center at Georgetown University where she studied how children’s attachments to media characters impact their educational effectiveness. Kate is currently the Senior Research Analyst for the National Center for Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning at ZERO TO THREE National Center for Infants and Toddlers.