Author: Mike
Babbling elicits learnable language from caregivers
How do languages become learnable for young children? Our latest study, “Immature vocalizations elicit simplified adult speech across multiple languages,” is now out in Current... Read More
Our summer Nexus Scholar students featured in College of Arts and Sciences article
Congratulations to two of our undergraduate research assistants, Sneha Singhi and David Behdad, for completing their first summer of research in our lab with support from the Nexus Scholar Program. Sn... Read More
Keeping the (proto)conversation going: Our new vocal turn-taking papers highlight the benefits of responding to babbling.
How we respond to infant babbling matters! Previous work from our lab shows that vocal learning is facilitated by moments when infants receive contingent responses to their babbling. What do protoconv... Read More
Our new theory paper on how infants learn and communicate
Our new theory paper, Curiosity constructs communicative competence through social feedback loops, is out in Advances in Child Development and Behavior! Humans are vocal learners, meaning we can flexi... Read More
B.A.B.Y. Lab at the Sciencenter!
The lab will be at the Sciencenter in Ithaca on Saturday, February 25 at 2 pm for an afternoon of parent-child activities. Let’s build together! We will to share their work on infant and child devel... Read More
New paper in Developmental Science
What are the origins of vocal communication in human infants? In our new paper in Developmental Science, we find that a crucial building block of communicative development is learning that one’s ... Read More
New paper on the role of sensory development in language learning
The latest paper from our lab is out in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. We review how babies learn from visual, auditory, and tactile perception, and extend those findings to illustrat... Read More
New paper on infant attention
It’s been a busy week for the B.A.B.Y. lab! Our paper yesterday in Current Biology demonstrated how social feedback guides song learning in birds. Our new paper, led by Gina Mason, is out today ... Read More