UT Language and Learning Lab

💡This Fall, we spotlight Dr. Patricia Ganea's UT Language and Learning Lab and learn more about the research being conducted which is focused on the social, linguistic and representational factors that influence early learning🧠.

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A slide from a recent presentation that our lovely research assistant, Emily, put together to talk about her experience in developmental psychology research and her path to becoming involved with our lab. She talked about the field as a whole and shared traits and skills that she thinks are valuable when working in research.

Thank you to Emily for delivering an awesome presentation and thank you to the staff and students at North West Year Round Alternative School for giving us the opportunity to share our love for research and developmental psychology!

If you're a parent and/or guardian looking to participate in research, feel free to sign up for our studies here: http://www.languageandlearninglab.com/web-volunteer-form/

Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Myrto Grigoroglou who will soon start a new job as Assistant Professor in Cognitive science and Linguistics at the University of Toronto. We are happy that we will still see her on campus and wish her all the best!!!

Here's a new paper from our lab by graduate students Nicole Larsen and Vaunam Venkadasalam. Congratulations for their great work and thank you to all the families who participated in this research!

Prompting Children’s Belief Revision About Balance Through Primary and Secondary Sources of Evidence Prior evidence has shown that children’s understanding of balance proceeds through stages. Children go from a stage where they lack a consistent theory (No Theory), to becoming Center Theorists at around age 6 (believing that all objects balance in their geometric center), to Mass Theorists at aro...

Would you like to help the science of child development from the comfort of your home? We are a group of scientists at the University of Toronto-OISE studying the development of children's language and reasoning skills. Our studies involve meeting with a U of T scientist through video chat to participate in fun and interactive research.

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http://www.languageandlearninglab.com/for-parents/online-studies/

Congratulations to graduate student Begüm Özdemir for her first published work form our lab! Thank you to all the families who participated in this research.

Variability in toddlers’ ability to verbally update their mental representations of absent objects Early in development children rely on other people’s verbal testimony to acquire information about things that are not available to their immediate pe…

Make Space: The Importance of Spatial Thinking for Learning Mathematics Spatial thinking allows you to understand the location and dimension of objects, and how different objects are related. It also allows you to visualize and manipulate objects and shapes in your head. Not only is spatial thinking very important for everyday tasks, new research shows that it is essent...

URI study finds PBS KIDS Series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!™ boosts preschoolers’ understanding of science, engineering KINGSTON, R.I. -- April 23, 2020 -- A study led by the University of Rhode Island has found that preschool children who interacted with multimedia learning materials created for the PBS KIDS show

Parenting in the Time of the Coronavirus Keeping your family safe in the face of a pandemic.

Altruistic babies? Study shows infants are willing to give up food, help others New research by the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences finds that altruism may begin in infancy. In a study of nearly 100 19-month-olds, researchers found that...

Pinocchio parenting: “If you don’t behave, I’ll call the police,” might be a lie parents use to get their young children to behave. However, a study led by Asst Prof Setoh Pei Pei found that such lies may be detrimental for the child in the future as an adult. The study found that children who were lied more to by their parents, subsequently lie more in adulthood and face greater adjustment difficulties. The study on 379 Singaporean young adults was done in collaboration with the University of Toronto, UC San Diego, and Zhejiang Normal University. http://bit.ly/parentinglying

School of Social Sciences, NTU Singapore Study at Zhejiang Normal University

Work from our lab on children’s learning from picture books featured in this article.

The Importance of Picture Books On the Benefits of Reading to Children and Even Babies