Language and Cognition Lab, Johns Hopkins University

04/28/2021

Howdy all! If you are a parent of someone with Williams syndrome or know a parent of someone with Williams syndrome, we would love your help in a series of new experiments. We're especially looking for participants with WS 8 years and up (even over 13!). Please email our PhD student, Rennie Pasquinelli, if you're interested!

10/07/2020

We're recruiting for a new study investigating language and memory in typically developing children between 5 to 7, and children with Williams Syndrome between 8 and 13! This study consists of multiple experiments that will take place on different days over Zoom. We are offering payment in Amazon gift cards.

If you're interested, email PhD student Rennie Pasquinelli at [email protected], or fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/xVfzr4QcZAj8tvmu7

04/03/2020

Last week’s seminar in Language and Thought—taught virtually (by our PI, Barbara Landau)! Great discussion, thanks to great students.

07/30/2019

Visit our updated website to learn about new studies and new faces in the lab!

The Language and Cognition Lab, led by Barbara Landau, focuses on the nature and development of human knowledge of space and language. Visit our Research...

05/15/2017

Check out our video at the showcase!

Spatial construction--creating novel spatial arrangements or copying existing ones--is a hallmark of human spatial cognition. Spatial construction appears early in development, predicts later spatial and mathematical skills, and is used throughout...

08/11/2016

03/23/2015

Work from the Language and Cognition Lab has been featured in the New Yorker! Check out the article, which discusses Emma Gregory and Barbara Landau's work studying an artist with amnesia.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/an-artist-with-amnesia

Lonni Sue Johnson can’t remember what happened five minutes ago, but she comes to life on the page. What can she teach scientists about memory?

04/17/2014

The Language and Cognition Lab is now recruiting children age 18-30 months for a study about early social skills and word learning. Children will participate in a variety of different tasks over the course of two hour-long visits to our lab in Krieger Hall on the Homewood campus. If you’re interested, please email us at [email protected] or visit our website at http://www.cog.jhu.edu/langcoglab and click the jack-in-the-box to find out more.

03/26/2014

In a recent study, we found that children as young as 4 years are able to remember specific details of pictures, even after viewing over 200 of them! For example, they could remember if they had seen the apple on the left or the one on the right. Even young children store an impressive amount of fine-grained detail in memory!

05/15/2013

Congratulations to Sarah, one of our research assistants who has received a Provost's Undergraduate Research Award. She will be asking "Do children have massive memory for visual images?"

Do you know any children who would like to come and be a part of this study?

04/29/2013

Have you seen our new kids page on the website? We are always looking for new scientists to come think with us!

http://mind.cog.jhu.edu/faculty/landau/lang-cog-lab/Landau_Lab/Child_Research/Child_Research.html

09/20/2011

Did you see Puzzles of the Brain? It opened this weekend. Here is what the New York Times and the Washington Post have to say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/health/20amnesia.html?_r=2&%2334=&sq=&st=n

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/artist-who-lost-memory-draws-little-on-the-past/2011/09/19/gIQAHy9XgK_story.html

An artist struck with viral encephalitis, a life-threatening disease that did severe damage to parts of her brain, is still able to make art.