The Learning and

Development Lab

The Learning and Development Lab focuses on understanding how young children learn words, how they track the statistical patterns of their environment, and how language experience, such as bilingualism, affects word learning, attention, and memory. To answer these questions, we work with infants, children, and adults who have monolingual or bilingual language learning experiences. Dr. Viridiana Benitez is the director of the LDL and she received a bachelor's in psychology at the University of Houston, a doctorate in developmental psychology at Indiana University, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology.

For more information about the Learning and Development Lab, visit their website learndevlab.org/, follow them on facebook (Learning and Development Lab), or on twitter @ASULearnDev.

The Emerging Minds Lab

The Emerging Minds Lab (EML) investigates how infants and young children learn about the world around them. Research in the EML examines how children's early curiosity supports their thinking and reasoning; what role the social and cultural environment plays in shaping early learning; and how children learn to communicate and navigate the social world. To conduct this work, the EML uses a variety of methodological approaches (behavioral experiments, naturalistic observations, looking-based paradigms). Dr. Kelsey Lucca is the director of the EML and received her PhD in Psychology from Duke University and conducted a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at ASU.

For more information about the Emerging Minds Lab, visit their website emergingmindslab.org, follow them on Instagram (@EmergingMindsLab), or on twitter @emergingmindsAZ.