Wellesley College Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Development

Today is the annual Ruhlman Conference, an opportunity for members of the Wellesley community to come together and celebrate student academic accomplishments across disciplines.

Our lab is excited to share two projects that we prepared for this year's Ruhlman Conference.

Presentation and Panel Discussion: "How Does Manipulating Experience Shape Preschool Children’s Gestural Representations of Novel Objects?"
Link: https://youtu.be/Xh1m2sjOKh0

Poster: "Virtually Investigating the Effect of Motor Experience on Children’s Gesture Production"
Link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tdSqERSmD6x_rVLoc9YB0rdbHbgZ0-aU

For more information, you can find the full program at https://www.wellesley.edu/ruhlman.

The Ruhlman Conference The Ruhlman Conference is made possible by the Barbara Peterson Ruhlman Fund for Interdisciplinary Study. The conference is intended to foster collaboration among students and faculty across the disciplines and to enhance the intellectual life of the College. The event will provide an opportunity fo...

Virtual research study on gesture use in children ages 3-5 years seeking participants. https://forms.gle/PpBdt1mCiSQrD1398
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The Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Development at Wellesley College is currently seeking children ages 3-5 years to participate in a virtual research study to help us understand how children’s experiences shape their use of gestures.
In this study, we will first ask parents to complete an online survey providing some basic information, including your child’s experience with different household activities. We will then schedule a meeting via Zoom to see how your child gestures about each of these activities during a short game.

The survey should take no more than 10 minutes of your time, and the game should only take about 15 minutes.

Your family will be compensated with a $5.00 Amazon gift card.
Scheduling is very flexible, we would be happy to find a time that works for you and your family.

For more information, click the ‘Sign Up’ button below to fill out our interest form, https://forms.gle/PpBdt1mCiSQrD1398 or email us at [email protected].

Sign Up for Research Studies Thank you so much for your interest in participating in research with the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Development! Filling out this form allows our team to be able to contact you about potential research opportunities in which your child may participate. This form does not obligate you to....

Welcome to our page! We are the Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Development (LLCD) at Wellesley College.

The LLCD investigates interactions between language and cognitive development across the lifespan. We work with typically developing children, deaf children and adults, bimodal bilinguals, and learners of an emerging sign language in Nicaragua to identify how the acquisition and use of a sign language is both shaped by and, in turn, shapes a learner’s cognitive abilities and how language delays affect cognitive development.

If you would like to learn more about our current studies, click the sign up button on our page or email us at [email protected].