B.A.B.Y. Lab

The Behavioral Analysis of Beginning Years (B.A.B.Y.) Laboratory is housed in the Eleanor J. Gibson Laboratory of Developmental Psychology. We are located in Uris Hall.

The lab is directed by Michael Goldstein, Ph.D and Jennifer Schwade, Ph.D, both members of the Department of Psychology.

We study the development of communication, cognition, and language. Over the first years, infants develop increasingly sophisticated means of communicating, from babbling to early words to language. We seek to understand the mechanisms by which communicative and cognitive development take place.

Our research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.