LEARN Lab

Safiatu Diagana gave a terrific research presentation at the NYU Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) Research Initiative conference yesterday! Safiatu is working with Sudha and Jonet to analyze the semantic composition of children's early vocabularies. Congrats, Safiatu!

Wahoo! We've been awarded an Innovation & Anti-racism Micro Grant from NYU's Office of Global Inclusion for increasing diversity in the field of speech-languag...e pathology by revealing the "hidden curriculum" of graduate admissions. Special thanks to LEARN Lab's, Dr. Arunachalam for spearheading this proposal! See more

MS student Taisha Pelletier has a poster about her thesis research at INSAR this week! Her pilot study provides preliminary evidence that children with and without ASD more easily learn new words when the learning situation incorporates their preferred interests than when it does not. Congrats, Taisha!

How do children learn language when they are not directly spoken to? Dr. Sudha Arunachalam of the LEARN Lab at New York University and Dr. Rhiannon Luyster of t...he LI+TLE Lab at Emerson College are collaborating through a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funded study to examine how children acquire new words. We hope our research will contribute to new teaching methods for language that make fewer social demands of learners and improve the way language is taught to all children. Learn more about our study here: https://word.emerson.edu/kids/ Sign up to participate here: https://redcap.link/kidscsdresearch

Congrats to Associate Professor, Sudha Arunachalam (LEARN Lab) and BU's Professor, Kim Saudino on their newly funded NICHD R01! They will be looking at data fr...om 600 twins! The study will tell us how genetic and environmental factors contribute to individual differences in parent language input. See more

Art by Tamisha Anthony. This adorable illustration is from one of our Quick Tips videos. Check out the whole series, with short but evidence-based tips on supporting language development in young children, at our website: https://wp.nyu.edu/learnlab/quick-tips/

The LEARN Lab team is busy at BUCLD this week! Looking forward to presenting two posters on verb learning in Korean, one talk on pronoun use in children with ASD, and one talk on online adjective-noun comprehension in preschoolers!

Meet the new lab managers at the LEARN Lab! Melanie Lopez Perez and Taylor Boyd are both working at the lab before applying to Ph.D. programs. Learn more about them at our updated Lab Members page: https://wp.nyu.edu/learnlab/lab-members/

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, check out this short but wonderful list to get you started sharing books about indigenous people with your little ones.

¡Hola familias! LEARN Lab Honors student Gissell Cuevas is doing a thesis with Spanish-English bilingual children ages 1.5 to 3 years. Can you help her find all her colorful friends? Message us here or email us at [email protected] to learn more and participate in her online study.

We're collaborating with the amazingly talented illustrator Tamisha Anthony to create videos with quick tips on supporting language development in preschoolers. Check out a preview of some of her characters. How adorable is this?? Stay tuned... we'll start rolling out the videos in late fall.

New open access paper in collaboration with Ashley Koenig and Kim Saudino in Journal of Cognition and Development. We found that lexical processing speed of nouns and verbs at 36 months predicted receptive vocabulary and school readiness scores 2 years later. This was a huge project (126 kids, manually coded eye gaze!) that Ashley took on for her undergrad thesis. Congrats, Ashley! https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/15248372.2020.1802277

So proud of incoming LEARN Lab postdoc Jonet Artis who defended her dissertation today! Can't wait to have you join us, Jonet! https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/jonet-artis

Thanks to a generous seed grant from NYU's IHDSC, we'll be back next year with an even bigger and better citizen science project. Be a language scientist with us: ask a research question, design a study, and analyze data! Sign up to be notified: https://u.osu.edu/blndiy/2020/07/20/week-10-final-results/

And that's a wrap for BLNDIY! The results? Your experiment found no difference in memory performance when participants rehearsed a list of items with inner speech vs. out loud. This is tentative support for the hypothesis that when we talk to ourselves, we use the same language and language skills as when we talk out loud! Check out our wrap-up video at the link! https://u.osu.edu/blndiy/2020/07/20/week-10-final-results/

Are you a data nerd? It's Week 8 at BLNDIY and we've posted the raw data from the experiment you designed on inner speech vs. speaking out loud. Check it out and tell us what you see in the data! https://u.osu.edu/blndiy/2020//06/week-8-make-observations/

Happy to be presenting on eye-tracking research for preschoolers with ASD at the Tobii Pro symposium. Join us on July 8 at 11 am! https://www.tobiipro.com//e/eye-tracking-symposium-autism/

It's Week 6 at BLNDIY! This week we're doing a norming study to prep for our experiment about inner speech. Not sure what a norming study is? Hop over to our site to learn more and help!

Are you curious about how social distancing is affecting your child's development? Participate in this interesting new project from our friends at University of Maryland and Boston College for parents of children ages 1-8 from all over the US: KidTalk Language Scrapbooking for Science. Sign up to use their app to answer survey questions and upload short recordings of your child’s speech! www.kidtalkscrapbook.org Twitter @kidtalkscience Facebook KidTalk Scrapbook