Andrew Dayton (Cherokee Nation) is a postdoctoral researcher at the USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education (CANDLE).  He earned his PhD in Developmental Psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz.  His research focuses on human development at the intersection of culture and cognition, examining patterns in embodied collaborative micro-behavior in everyday learning contexts, especially involving Indigenous and Indigenous heritage families and communities.  His current work involves analysis of naturalistic video data in terms of mutual engagement and interactional synchrony as it unfolds in everyday life.