We use fun games and activities to investigate children's language learning and their understanding of space. We are looking for children of all ages (18 months to 18 years) to participate!

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We use fun games and activities to investigate children’s language learning and their understanding of space. We are looking for children of all ages (18 months to 18 years) to participate!

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The Language and Cognition Lab, led by Barbara Landau, focuses on the nature and development of human knowledge of space and language. Visit our Research page to find out more about our current projects:

  • Spatial language
  • Spatial information and word learning
  • Spatial navigation after disorientation
  • Space, language, art, and brain
  • Language and thought

We are currently recruiting kids of all ages to participate in our studies!

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Former RA Awarded Glushko Prize

Zihan Wang

Zihan Wang was named the JHU Department of Cognitive Science’s 2023 Glushko Outstanding Undergraduate Cognitive Scientist! Since the spring semester of her freshman year, Zihan Wang has conducted research continuously in this lab. Read more…

Student Paper Published in JSLHR

Rennie Pasquinelli

PhD student Rennie Pasquinelli had a paper on “The Development of Left Hemisphere Lateralization for Sentence-Level Prosodic Processing” recently published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. It has clinical implications for language development in general, but also for people with cochlear implants. Read the article here.

Student Receives Science of Learning Fellowship

Rennie Pasquinelli

Rennie Pasquinelli, a rising fourth year graduate student, was named the recipient of a Science of Learning Fellowship for 2021-22! The fellowship is funded by the Science of Learning Institute (SLI) at Johns Hopkins and it provides support for a stipend and tuition. Selection as a fellow is an endorsement of Rennie’s research agenda which is focused...