a baby and his mom participate in a habituation study. They both look at a tv screen in a dark room. a baby participates in an eye tracking study. The baby looks at a computer screen and smiles. a baby looks at the camera while wearing a hat with looxcie cameras attached during one of their Seedlings home recording sessions a baby participates in an eye tracking study. He wears a target sticker on his forehead and looks at a computer screen. a baby sits on their grandmother's lap and reads a book while their mother looks on

Bergelson Lab

Harvard University's Laboratory for Developmental Studies

The Bergelson Lab (aka BLAB) is a part of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies group within the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. We are located on the 11th floor at William James Hall.

We study infant word learning, in particular how infants’ early linguistic and environmental input plays a role in their learning. We focus on understanding how babies learn words from the visual, social, and linguistic world around them.

The BLAB moved to Harvard from Duke University in 2023. And it moved to Duke in 2016 from the University of Rochester, where it finished data collection in July 2016 for a longitudinal study called SEEDLingS (Study of Environmental Effects on Developing Linguistic Skills). You can read more about that work here.

If you would like to participate in more online studies conducted by researchers like us all over the world, check out listings on the Children Helping Science website!

Find details of our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity at the following links, along with how details on how to join us: