Former RA Awarded Glushko Prize

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

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, 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 […]


We are now recruiting for online studies!

The Language & Cognition Lab is now conducting several virtual studies for children ages 3-7! Click here for more information about participating!


New publication from the lab

A paper by Emory Davis and Barbara Landau, “Seeing and Believing: The Relationship between Perception and Mental Verbs in Acquisition”, was recently published in the journal Language Learning and Development.


Say Cheese!!

Prof. Barbara Landau took this ‘class picture’ of her online Language and Thought seminar. Prof. Landau says, “The students in this class have been AMAZING!— great presentations, great discussions, and all under (shall we say) ‘unusual’ circumstances. Their resilience and energy are wonderful to see!”