BLAB news 2020-

Joining the Blab with the new year is Dr. Rainy Dong, who will work with the Blab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome to Cambridge Rainy!

Grad student Genia Lukin and lab manager, Lilli Righter presented research at the 49th annual Boston University Conference for Language Development. Former BLab member Erin Campbell also presented!

The BLAB welcomes two incoming lab managers: Sophie Schoenbohm, a recent graduate of Grinnell College, and Michika Ito, a recent graduate of Wellesley College.

Erin Campbell, PhD, lab manager Lilli Righter , and grad student Genia Lukin head to MPAL 2023 to share two posters and a talk on blind children’s early language. Also catch Genia and Erin at BUCLD 48 in November!

PI Elika Bergelson, PhD will be giving a talk as part of the Society for Language Development Symposium on November 2. The topic of the symposium is “The effects of poverty on language, cognition, and brain development.”

The Bergelson Lab has moved! We are now a part of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. We’ll miss you, Durham! Hello Cambridge!

The newest BLAB PhD just defended! Dr. Erin Campbell presented a stunning dissertation on language acquisition and the senses, including language development in blind and deaf children. Erin is off to Boston University, where she will work as a postdoc...

Shannon Dailey, PhD and PI Elika Bergelson, PhD recently published a paper in Child Development which provides evidence that parents’ language input doesn’t differ between girls and boys, but that parents talk more to infants who have themselves begun...

PI Elika Bergelson, PhD received an NIH R01 grant to study how social, cognitive, and linguistic skills contribute to word learning in the second year of life. We are excited to start work on new projects! Congratulations, Dr. B!

BLAB alum Catherine Laing, PhD , current professor at the University of York, has been awarded a grant from the European Research Council to study infants’ tongue movements, vocal tract development, and speech sounds. Congratulations, Dr. Laing! Read more...