& Cognition Lab
Child Language &
Cognition Lab
At Kent State University
Cognition Lab
At Kent State University
Kent State University
Kent State University
Meet the Lab!
William E. Merriman, Ph.D.
Awareness of Gaps in Linguistic Knowledge -- What procedure does a young child use to decide that some word is unknown, that some object cannot be named, or that some utterance cannot be interpreted clearly? How is the accuracy of these decisions related to the efficiency of various cognitive processes?
Overconfidence in Memory – Why do young children make such unrealistically optimistic predictions about their memory performance? Why do they become less optimistic as they get older?
Word Learning– How do children infer the category that a word denotes from observations of how the word is used (and not used).
Jenna L. Wall, M.A.
Ph.D. Candidate, Kent State University
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My research focuses on language development in young children. Some of my research questions include:
1) what types of strategies do children use when learning new words?
2) do children recognize that a name learned for a visual object also applies to that object when encountered in a different sensory modality (e.g., tactilely)?
3) are children aware of their own linguistic knowledge?
4) is this knowledge related to their word-learning behavior?
and 5) do children form expectations about what will occur during different communicative interactions, and when do these expectations develop?
Another line of research that I am involved in focuses on children’s understanding of various number concepts (e.g., cardinality, ordinality, estimation). I am currently investigating the extent to which training/feedback on these concepts may help children improve their understanding of number.
Other areas of interest: Autism and other developmental disorders, Sensory integration and cross-modal recognition, Theory of Mind, Creativity, Perception
Kyle Henning
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Jeremy Slocum
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