BLAB in the News

News coverage of our lab's work

Cross-continental language input and production study featured in 'Harvard Gazette'

  • 02/23/24
The PNAS study we mentioned in the last news post was also featured in the Harvard Gazette . The article discusses the study's findings and implications.

Cross-continental language input and production study featured in 'Science'

  • 12/20/23
A recently-published collaboration between our lab and scientists around the world finds that more talkative parents are associated with more talkative children; no effect of socioeconomic status on children's talk. The study, published in PNAS, analyzed day-long recordings from 1,001 children from 6 continents!

Dr. Bergelson on ABC Australia

  • 12/27/23
Dr. Bergelson was interviewed by ABC Australia about our recent study in PNAS about language input and production from children around the world. Click the link above to watch the clip!

Dr. Bergelson wins FABBS Early Career Award

  • 06/29/23
Dr. Bergelson was awarded the Early Career Award by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences for her work in early language development and for the lab's focus on science communication. Congratulations, Dr. B!

Language experience predicts music processing in a half-million speakers of fifty-four languages

  • 05/04/23
Published in Current Biology, former BLab RA Jingxuan Liu and Dr. Bergelson were featured in The World for Jing's project on tonal languages and musical ability, in collaboration with Courtney Hilton and Samuel Mehr.

Bergelson & Aslin (2017). Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds

  • 11/20/17
Published in PNAS