Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Biography PhD, University of Iowa Contact Information Waisman Center 1500 Highland Avenue Room 543A Madison, WI 53705 (608) 890-2259 rebecca.alper@wisc.edu Language, Literacy, and Learning Lab Research Statement Dr. Alper’s research focuses on understanding and improving language and academic outcomes for children who are at-risk as a result of learning environment, communication disorder status, or both. …
Biography PhD, University of Rochester Contact Information Waisman Center Room 538A 1500 Highland Avenue Madison, WI 53705 608.263.5792 jenny.saffran@wisc.edu Infant Learning Lab Research Statement How do babies learn language? We approach this question through lab-based experiments designed to reveal the learning abilities that infants bring to this challenging task. Research foci include statistical learning, or …
Biography PhD, Northwestern University Contact Information Waisman Center, Room 487 UW–Madison 343 Goodnight Hall 1975 Willow Drive Madison, WI 53706 608.265.6902 kaushanskaya@wisc.edu Lab Website: Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab (LAB) Research Statement We want to know how language and cognitive skills fluctuate with linguistic experience. With this general goal in mind, we study how bilingualism …
