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Posted by Dr Hannah Sawyer Mother: What does the doggie say?Child: Doggie say woof.Mother: What does he eat?Child: He eat biscuits.Mother: And what about the pussycat? Does she like biscuits?Child: No. She like cat food.Have you ever considered how many questions we...

Posted by Prof Padraic MonaghanYour plane has just landed in a distant country, you’re out into the airport. But nothing makes sense: You don’t understand the language, you can’t figure out what the signs say, and you don’t know how to find your way to the exit. That...

Posted by Jessica KnightMy name is Jess and I am currently a final year student studying Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) at the University of Manchester. Over the summer 2023 between my second and third year, I had the opportunity to work as a LuCiD intern under the...

Posted by Perrine BrusiniIn September 2023, I was granted a LuCiD travel grant to visit a collaborator of my EEG prediction study, Yamil Vidal Dos Santos. Yamil works in the Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen. I brought with me the data we...

Posted by Hannah Sawyer In October 2023, thanks to receiving a LuCiD travel grant, I was lucky enough to spend a week at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. The aim of this trip was to visit Professor Caroline Rowland and her team in the...

Posted by Maha Sweetha Shanmugam Ever pondered the intricacies of how young minds unravel the complexities of language, peeling back the layers of their cognitive processes to comprehend its nuanced structures? This is exactly what I looked at for a period of 6-week...

Posted by Ciara Dutton Have you ever been curious about the inner workings of child language development research? Allow me to share my developmental research experience during a six-week internship with LuCiD, where I had the opportunity to work at both the Babylab...

Posted by Owen Waddington The purpose of my week-long visit to Toronto and the University of Toronto therein was to collaborate with a research team full of wonderful and talented researchers at the ChiLD Lab headed by Dr. Samuel Ronfard. In this blog post, I will...

Posted by Gert Westermann & Jacky ChanDoes it help babies to understand that different objects (such as different dinosaurs) belong together into a category when they hear them all being called ‘dinosaur’? And what if they instead hear the same melody whenever...

Posted by Birsu KandemirciIt may not come as a surprise to many when I say that language is a crucial tool for children’s social interactions. But what might be surprising is that different languages might have different ways of supporting children’s social skills....