North Park University Baby Lab

Welcome!

Welcome to the North Park University Baby Lab! We conduct research on language acquisition and cognitive development in infancy and childhood in order to understand how infants and toddlers make sense of the world around them. With your help, we hope to discover new information about how young children represent sounds, how they learn new words, and how they process variable information in speech, such as in foreign accents and dialects. Although we don’t have studies that test every age group, we are currently recruiting infants from 4-30 months of age.

Our research depends on the generous participation of parents who volunteer their time to visit our lab with their infants and toddlers. All of our studies involve one short visit (less than 30 minutes) to our lab, in which we measure your child's interest in sounds and words that are played on a large television screen. As a token of our appreciation, all children receive a book or toy after participation in one of our studies. Siblings are welcome to come to the appointment too! We have a supervised playroom to keep children busy while experiments are in progress.

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