Affiliated Vanderbilt Labs
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Booth Lab
Most of our work focuses on the development of language and reading, and how this is related to other cognitive processes such as numerical cognition and executive function. Our models of typical brain function are informed by our research in atypical populations such as developmental language disorder, late talkers, deaf and hard of hearing, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Building Knowledge Lab
We’re interested in how children and adults learn new information. Our research answers questions such as: “How do people learn both simple facts such as ‘The Pacific is the largest ocean on earth’ and more complex knowledge such as mathematical procedures?”, “What can teachers and students do to improve learning within and outside the classroom?”, and “How do students learn incorrect information and how can those errors be corrected?"
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CCD Lab
We are a developmental psychology lab in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. In our research, we focus on two broad questions. First, how do infants and young children learn about cause-and-effect relations in the world? Second, how do infants evaluate others based on their social and moral actions? We rely on experiments and computational modeling to answer these two questions.
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Child Language and Literacy Lab
The Child Language And Literacy Lab focuses on the study of language and literacy acquisition in children with typical as well as atypical development. In our research we seek to better understand the language and literacy difficulties of children and to devise and test new methods of instruction and intervention to improve the language and literacy skills of all children.
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Children's Learning Lab
In the Children's Learning Lab, we study how children learn and how to improve their learning. Our research focuses on learning key concepts and problem-solving procedures in mathematics, with an emphasis on experiences that promote learning.
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CHILL Lab
In the CHILL lab, our goal is to improve pediatric healthcare for children and families of all needs, abilities, and diagnoses. In studying Children’s Healthcare, Illness, Legacy, and Loss, we focus on translating the experiences of hospitalized children, their parents/caregivers, siblings, and other family members into interventions and services that strengthen families, promote resilience, and facilitate growth and development.
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Climb Lab
This lab is devoted to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of language intervention for children who are deaf and hard of hearing, children with autism, and children with other developmental disabilities.
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Education & Brain Sciences Research Lab
The Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab (EBRL) seeks to understand why some children are successful at learning to read while others are not. Using neuroimaging and behavioral testing, our NIH and NSF funded studies investigate reading comprehension, Neurofibromatosis Type 1, and the effects of reading interventions in children with and without reading difficulties.
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Exploration and Learning Lab
We study how new motor skills shape infant exploration and learning. We use state-of-the-art recording technologies to observe infants’ actions during play, and to examine how opportunities to interact with people, places, and things change over development.
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Hands-On Play Lab
Focused on discovering and exploring the learning processes of early life.
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Implementation Research Lab
Implementation, language+learning sciences, dev/ed psy, special ed, policy, school+community contexts, & evidence synthesis
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KidTalk Kaiser Lab
Vanderbilt KidTalk is a research group studying language growth in young children with disabilities. Our intervention is fun, natural and can be done by parents and teachers! Children who are taught using KidTalk procedures typically learn new vocabulary, talk in longer sentences, and develop strong, positive relationships with their parents, teachers, and peers.
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Land Lab
Early childhood experiences scaffold future learning and affect long-term educational outcomes. A major focus of work in the lab is on the impact of sensorimotor learning experiences on foundational literacy skills that impact major life outcomes.
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Language and Literacy Development Research Group
The LLD research group is a team of educational researchers and practitioners dedicated to understanding and supporting elementary school students' language and literacy development. We collaborate with experts through research-practitioner partnerships with local schools, community-based language development programs, and state-level partnerships with the Tennessee Educational Research Alliance.
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Language Development Lab
In our lab we are interested in discovering how infants and young children learn language. We are curious about children’s ability to understand words and infants’ ability to make sense of conversation. Our studies typically involve children in late infancy through the preschool years.
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Language, Literacy, Learning, and Equity Research Group
We are educational researchers and practitioners who investigate links between language, reading, writing, and learning in learners traditionally underserved in schools. We work to connect our practice-informed research to classrooms in order to support youth to achieve their socio-emotional, academic and political aspirations.
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Little Learners Lab
Our lab is dedicated to understanding the origins of variability in young children’s cognitive skills and motivation for learning, as well as the implications of this variability for children’s science literacy, language development, and overall school readiness.
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Logan Lab
The Logan Lab specializes in using quantitative methodology and statistics in developmental science. The Logan Lab also hosts a yearly workshop for Data Management and Data Sharing to support other developmental researchers.
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Mood, Emotion, and Development Lab
Our research examines social and emotional development and the ways in which alterations in emotion contribute to the development of mood disorders. We focus on research that can be translated to improve intervention and prevention efforts. We study a range of emotional processes, including reward responsiveness, emotion regulation, and social processing.
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Music Cognition Lab
The lab is focused on the relationship between music, language, and social development.
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National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI)
The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) works to improve state and local capacity to implement, scale-up, and sustain effective practices and policies to equitably support the social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of young children with, and at risk for, developmental delays or disabilities.
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Number Lab
At the Number Lab, directed by Dr. Eric Wilkey, we investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms that support mathematical thinking and how learning and development shape the brain.
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PN3 Policy Impact Center
The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center empowers states with rigorous evidence to implement effective and equitable policies that ensure all children thrive from the start. Based in Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College and led by Dr. Cynthia Osborne, Professor of Early Childhood Education and Policy, our team of researchers and nonpartisan policy experts work directly with state leaders to achieve their goals for child and parent wellbeing–as well as the health, safety, and prosperity of communities.
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SPARK Lab
The Social Perception and Reasoning about Knowledge (SPARK) Lab seeks to understand how children and adults learn from others, build trust, and evaluate morals. We are interested in the ways that learning circumstances or goals, identity, beliefs, and biases impact decisions about who is a good resource for information–whether that is in the context of academics or in pursuit of building knowledge about the social landscape.
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Stress and Coping Research Lab
Our research is focused on understanding how children, adolescents, and parents cope with stress and adversity in their lives. Findings from our basic studies of coping are translated into the development and testing of preventive interventions to enhance coping and adaptation and to improve the emotional and physical health of children and families.
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SEA Lab
In the Stress and Early Adversity (SEA) Lab at Vanderbilt University (directed by Dr. Kathryn L. Humphreys), we study how children's experiences are associated with development.
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Social Cognition Lab
Our research is focused on how children learn about people and learn from people, and includes several interrelated lines of work. One major topic of our current research is children’s understanding of the mind–including their understanding of other people’s knowledge, beliefs, and feelings. The other major focus of our research concerns how children understand and learn about social groups–how they acquire positive and negative information about social groups, and how they come to understand that people hold biases against different social groups.