Updates

  • August 12, 2010, 9:36 am
    New Study!

    A new study has begun at the Infant Studies Centre! Categories: Eye Tracking aims to understand how infants around 7 months of age learn about categories using language cues. Infants sit on their mothers' laps and watch make-believe animals on a screen, while our eye tracker pinpoints where they are looking and what they pay attention to.

    To learn more about this and other studies at our Centre, please visit the Current Studies page!

  • April 12, 2010, 11:49 am
    Our New Lab Coordinator

    We are pleased to announce a new and important member of our team! Neda Razaz-Rahmati is the new Lab Coordinator for the Infant Studies Centre. For more information about our staff, students, and the rest of the team, please visit our People page!

  • February 13, 2010, 12:07 pm
    Media Coverage

    One of Janet's papers, The Roots of Bilingualism, has reeived some amazing media coverage, including this article in the Vancouver Sun!

    Check out this cool video of illustrative media coverage of this study (courtesy OMNI Alberta).

  • 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

  • Byers-Heinlein, K., Burns, T. C., & Werker, J. F. (2010). The roots of bilingualism in newborns. Psychological Science, 21(3), 343-348. Please click here (WMV, 9.9MB) to download illustrative media coverage of this study (courtesy OMNI Alberta). Request Publication Download via Email
  • Yeung, H. H., & Werker, J. F. (2009). Learning words' sounds before learning how words sound: 9-Month-olds use distinct objects as cues to categorize speech information. Cognition, 113(2), 234-243. Request Publication Download via Email
  • Yoshida, K. A., Fennell, C. T., Swingley, D., & Werker, J. F. (2009). Fourteen month-old infants learn similar sounding words. Developmental Science, 12(3), 412-418. Request Publication Download via Email