Many children grow up learning two or more languages and recent research has found differences in cognitive performance between monolingual and bilingual children. Currently we are conducting research looking at ...

In the early stages of life, we begin to make sense of the world through our eyes. At the Early Learning Project, we are interested in looking at how young ...

Do you ever wonder how much media is used within your household? The Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure (CAFE) Consortium is a team of researchers with specialties in psychology, ...

In an era of social distancing, how do parents, grandparents, and infants keep in touch with each other? For example, how does your new grandbaby respond when you play peek-a-boo ...

The Just Beginning Project is a relationship based intervention consisting of instructional sessions and parent-child visits focusing on communication and socio-emotional enhancing techniques. Incarcerated teen parents are rarely given the ...

We can “ask” young children what they know by showing them something and seeing if they copy us. One of our early studies showed that infants learn 1-2 brand new ...

Children pick up information from everywhere. Learning from 2D and transferring that information into the real world is a complicated task for the memory system. In this series of studies ...

Learning from television involves transferring information from the 2D to the 3D world. In this series of studies we found that children could learn from television as young as 6 ...

This section includes an edited book which examines how learning from media by young children is impacted by the content and the context of the interactions. We conducted content analyses ...

This work was conducted in the lab of the infancy researcher pioneer, Carolyn Rovee-Collier. Together we examined how babies and toddlers linked together different pieces of memory, sometimes extending out ...

This section includes reviews of the field describing how babies learn and remember and also the methods that we use to measure memory.Brito, N. H., Fifer, W. P., Amso, D., ...

This section includes reviews of the findings from the field of children and media.  Sundqvist, A., Koch, F., Birberg Thornberg, U., Barr, R., & Heimann, M., (2021). Growing up in ...