A new article in the Cornell Chronicle reports on our latest paper investigating the role of social motivation in learning how to communicate. Infant songbirds and humans learn from social feedback to their immature behavior, but the mechanisms linking social motivation to communicative development are unknown. In our new paper published in the Proceedings of the […]
Honors thesis student and all-around wonderful person Sara Schroer is being featured by Cornell as one of our star graduating seniors! Next year she will attend the Ph.D program in developmental psychology at Indiana University.
If someone spoke to you in a high pitched, animated manner, you might be a little confused. This style of talking is known as infant-directed speech (IDS) and is characterized by high pitch, slower tempo, tonal variation, and simplified language. But why do parents naturally use this speech with their children? As science has shown, IDS is […]
Come find us at Ithaca Festival! The Cornell B.A.B.Y. Lab will be hosting an activity booth on Cayuga Street (between Buffalo and Court St.) on Saturday and Sunday starting at noon. You can watch how your little ones play with toys that are structured, like balls or blocks, or unstructured, like play-dough. Come see the different […]
Lab director Dr. Michael Goldstein be interviewed on the NPR affiliate WSKG on Wednesday (4/15) afternoon as a guest on Community Conversation: A Public Discussion On Child Care. There will be a live audience as part of the public forum on child care and early education, then the interview will be broadcast at 7:00pm tonight on WSKG […]
Congratulations to graduate students Melissa Elston and Katerina Faust! Melissa won the prestigious National Science Foundation predoctoral fellowship, and Katerina received an honorable mention!
Perri Klass, a pediatrician, science writer, and NYU professor of pediatrics and journalism, wrote a wonderful article for the Harvard Medicine magazine on why we study both baby babbling and birdsong. Perri took the time to visit our lab and get an in-depth understanding of what we do and why we do it. Thanks, Perri!
B.A.B.Y. Lab director Dr. Mike Goldstein was recently interviewed on the Sift podcast, which was broadcast on NPR stations nationwide: Social Guide to Babbling
Two of our 2013-14 honors thesis students, Chantall Hoff and Brenna McGuire, were featured in a story on their language development research: Oh, B.A.B.Y.: Undergrads study language in kids
Our research was featured in a New York times article about early vocal development: Understanding ‘Ba Ba Ba’ as a Key to Development