We study children's language and conceptual development. We focus on the nature and development of human knowledge of space and language.
You can help us by signing up for one of our studies, where your child will play games and contribute to science! The Language and Cognition Lab is a group of researchers led by Dr. Barbara Landau in the Cognitive Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. We are currently recruiting typically-developing children aged 18 months to 7 years, as well as children with Williams Syndrome, to participate in studies.
04/28/2021
Howdy all! If you are a parent of someone with Williams syndrome or know a parent of someone with Williams syndrome, we would love your help in a series of new experiments. We're especially looking for participants with WS 8 years and up (even over 13!). Please email our PhD student, Rennie Pasquinelli, if you're interested!
10/07/2020
We're recruiting for a new study investigating language and memory in typically developing children between 5 to 7, and children with Williams Syndrome between 8 and 13! This study consists of multiple experiments that will take place on different days over Zoom. We are offering payment in Amazon gift cards.
If you're interested, email PhD student Rennie Pasquinelli at [email protected], or fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/xVfzr4QcZAj8tvmu7
04/03/2020
Last week’s seminar in Language and Thought—taught virtually (by our PI, Barbara Landau)! Great discussion, thanks to great students.
07/30/2019
Visit our updated website to learn about new studies and new faces in the lab!
Home | Language and Cognition Lab 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...
05/15/2017
Check out our video at the showcase!
Minds that Build Spatial construction--creating novel spatial arrangements or copying existing ones--is a hallmark of human spatial cognition. Spatial construction appears early in development, predicts later spatial and mathematical skills, and is used throughout...
08/11/2016
03/23/2015
Work from the Language and Cognition Lab has been featured in the New Yorker! Check out the article, which discusses Emma Gregory and Barbara Landau's work studying an artist with amnesia.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/an-artist-with-amnesia
An Artist with Amnesia Lonni Sue Johnson can’t remember what happened five minutes ago, but she comes to life on the page. What can she teach scientists about memory?
The Language and Cognition Lab is now recruiting children age 18-30 months for a study about early social skills and word learning. Children will participate in a variety of different tasks over the course of two hour-long visits to our lab in Krieger Hall on the Homewood campus. If you’re interested, please email us at [email protected] or visit our website at http://www.cog.jhu.edu/langcoglab and click the jack-in-the-box to find out more.
03/26/2014
In a recent study, we found that children as young as 4 years are able to remember specific details of pictures, even after viewing over 200 of them! For example, they could remember if they had seen the apple on the left or the one on the right. Even young children store an impressive amount of fine-grained detail in memory!
Congratulations to Sarah, one of our research assistants who has received a Provost's Undergraduate Research Award. She will be asking "Do children have massive memory for visual images?"
Do you know any children who would like to come and be a part of this study?
04/29/2013
Have you seen our new kids page on the website? We are always looking for new scientists to come think with us!
http://mind.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/landau/lang-cog-lab/Landau_Lab/Child_Research/Child_Research.html
09/20/2011
Did you see Puzzles of the Brain? It opened this weekend. Here is what the New York Times and the Washington Post have to say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/health/20amnesia.html?_r=2&%2334=&sq=&st=n
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/artist-who-lost-memory-draws-little-on-the-past/2011/09/19/gIQAHy9XgK_story.html
A Few Strokes of the Past in Work of Artist Who Lost Memory An artist struck with viral encephalitis, a life-threatening disease that did severe damage to parts of her brain, is still able to make art.