B.A.B.Y lab research in Scientific American

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Mike

Rachel Albert, a B.A.B.Y. lab Ph.D now at Lebanon Valley College, recently authored an article in Scientific American on our recent findings from a study on parental responses to infant babbling. I... Read More

New paper on the social functions of infant babbling

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Mike

A new article in Science Daily reports on our recent discoveries about the social functions of infant babbling. Traditionally, baby babbling was thought of as simple motor exercise, but we have foun... Read More

New paper on the role of social motivation in song learning

Posted on July 25, 2017July 25, 2017 by Mike

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... Read More

B.A.B.Y. Lab Researcher Sara Schroer ’17 Featured in Cornell Chronicle

Posted on May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 by Mike

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 ps... Read More

Babies influence mothers’ speech

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Mike

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 ... Read More

B.A.B.Y. Lab at the Ithaca Festival!

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Mike

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... Read More

B.A.B.Y. Lab on NPR

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Mike

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 liv... Read More

2015 NSF fellowship winners!

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Mike

Congratulations to graduate students Melissa Elston and Katerina Faust! Melissa won the prestigious National Science Foundation predoctoral fellowship, and Katerina received an honorable mention!... Read More

Why we study birds and babies

Posted on February 3, 2015February 3, 2015 by Mike

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... Read More

A social guide to babbling

Posted on December 14, 2014December 14, 2014 by Mike

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... Read More

The Eleanor J. Gibson Laboratory of Developmental Psychology

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