After completing a NIH funded postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Professor Lakusta joined the Montclair State University faculty in 2008. She teaches a wide range of courses, including Developmental Psychology both at the undergraduate and graduate level, Child Psychology, and Introduction to Statistical Methods in Psychology. Professor Lakusta is the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation that has supported her research exploring how infants conceptualize events and how such preverbal representations may support early language acquisition. Recent studies are further exploring spatial language acquisition in children 2 to 7 years of age, focusing on the meaning of terms encoding space. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications including recent publications in the journals, Infancy, Language Learning and Development, and Cognitive Science.