Lab in Early Language and Cognitive Development
PSY 2225R
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Course Information
Description
In this lab course, students participate in research asking how we learn language in the first few years of life, and how this connects to our broader cognitive abilities to think, interact, and learn. Each undergraduate student will contribute to one or more ongoing projects and work closely with a grad and/or postdoctoral mentor. All enrollees will get front row exposure to and training in psychological research, including how experiments and observational analyses are designed, how data is collected, cleaned, and analyzed, open science practices, and how research goes from an idea to a published paper. Weekly lab meeting to discuss student projects and readings relevant to them. Each enrollee will have the opportunity to present lab or lab-relevant research once per semester. Ten hours a week commitment (includes lab meeting).
Course Notes
Open to graduate and undergraduate students working in the instructor’s laboratory. To express interest in enrollment, please email the lab managers, Sophie Schoenbohm (sschoenbohm@fas.harvard.edu) and Michika Ito (mito@fas.harvard.edu).
Recommended Prep
For undergraduates, the Psychology Department requires completion of Science of Living Systems 20 or Psychology 1 or the equivalent of introductory psychology (e.g. Psych AP=5 or IB =7 or Psyc S-1) or prior coursework in Linguistics before enrolling in this course; or permission of instructor.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
