Updates

  • November 1, 2011, 9:36 am
    Participate in a Study!

    We are always looking for children and their parent(s) to come to our centre at UBC to volunteer in our studies. To learn more about this and other studies at our Centre, please visit the Current Studies page!

  • October 19, 2011, 10:33 am
    Congratulations Krista!

    Congratulations Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein on being recognized as a Research Star 2011 in the second edition of the "Ça mérite d'être reconnu!" contest! She received the award at the Palais de congrès Recognition Award Gala in Montreal. Krista got her PhD from the lab in 2009 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Concordia. Read more about her award here.

  • October 10, 2011, 10:02 am
    Media Coverage

    Read about Dr. Werker's recent work on early Bilingualism that has been featured in New York Times

  • September 9, 2011, 1:28 pm
    Upcoming Conference

    National Academy of Sciences: The Sackler Colloquium Biological - Embedding of Early Social Adversity: From Fruit Flies to Kindergartners Read more about it here!

  • February 22, 2011, 9:10 am
    Dr. Werker at AAAS

    Dr. Werker presented some of the Centre's bilingual research at the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science just last week in Washington DC. The findings have received plenty of media attention, and we are so happy to be reaching the community at large!

    For news articles, please see the links here for Science now, and here for the Montreal Gazette. There are countless additional articles across the web and around the world!

  • January 13, 2010, 8:55 am
    Newsletters

    Not only have we published the Fall edition of our newsletter, "Baby Talk" - we've also created a new "Newsletters" page! Click here to check out the new page - you can download the latest issue of "Baby Talk," a recent newsletter on our "Early Detection of Language Delay" project, and "Baby Talk" newsletters from past years!

New Publications

  • Geffin, M. N., Gervain, J., Werker, J. F., & O Magnasco, M. (2011) Auditory pecerption of self-similarity in water sounds. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 5:15. The Sound of Running Water  Request Publication Download via Email
  • Curtin, S., Byers-Heinlein, K., Werker, J.F. (2011) Bilingual beginnings as a lens for theory development: PRIMIR in focus, Journal of Phonetics, doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2010.12.002 Request Publication Download via Email
  • Gervain, J., Mehler, J., Werker, J.F., Nelson, C.A., Csibra, C., Lloyd-Fox, S., Shukla, M., & Aslin, R.N. (2011). Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: A Report from the McDonnell Infant Methodology Consortium. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 22-46.  Request Publication Download via Email