Language and Cognitive Development Lab
UCLA Psychology
Research in our laboratory focuses on the
relationship between children's language learning environments, especially
parents' language input to children, and children's acquisition. We are
interested in the idea that different kinds of parent input to children
differentially engage domain general processes such as memory and attention that
ultimately affect how and what children learn. To this end we primarily conduct
three kinds of studies: Input studies designed to elucidate the nature of
parents' language input to children, longitudinal acquisition studies where we
watch how children come to learn words, concepts, and categories over weeks and
months, and training studies with which we examine how presenting children with
a specific kind of input impacts children's acquisition.
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opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.