In order to understand how children acquire language and certain classes of concepts, we study directly their perceptual and processing capacities over the first year of life. For this line of research we have a laboratory dedicated to experimentation with infants. This lab has three testing rooms, two of them equipped with a sound-attenuating chamber. Non-nutritive sucking at 2 months of age. The animated theater at 10-12 months.
Informed consent is required from at least one of the infant's parents.
Infant research links We often collaborate with other infant labs, mostly to run cross-linguistic studies. Peter W. Jusczyk , Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University. Infant language learning center , New York University. Infant cognition center , NewYork University. Language learning lab , Wisconsin.