Professor Poulin-Dubois is internationally known for her theoretical and empirical contributions on cognitive and language development. Her research, which is currently funded by NSERC and SSHRC, ...

The Language Learning and Development Lab (a.k.a., the LangDev Lab) examines language learning in infants and young children, as well as in adult learners who are studying a new language. The goal of ...

Here, we were interested in exploring the relationship between language and computer programming, partially because computer programming is such a new invention that we know that there couldn't be ...

English-speaking mothers who begin reading to their children at a very early age have toddlers with greater language comprehension, larger, more expressive vocabularies and higher cognitive scores ...

Romy Ancer, educator at Bellavista School, recalls some 28 years ago, meeting a little boy, rocking back and forth, flapping his hands wildly next to his ears, as if to block out the world around him.

What is not clear is whether language actually causes the emergence of executive functions, and whether the relation between language and executive functions exists only in humans. Canine behaviour.

As a developmental psychologist, I have extensively studied the role of language in children’s cognitive development, especially their executive functions — the cognitive skills that allow ...

For humans, there is a link between the development of language and cognitive skills. Studying the same process in dogs can be used to determine their capabilities at the puppy stage.