Lauren K. Slone

My research focuses on the real-time dynamics of early vocabulary acquisition and the sensorimotor processes that support this learning.  I employ multiple behavioral methodologies, including micro-behavioral measures from naturalistic parent-child toy play interactions (e.g., high-density head-mounted eye tracking from the infants’ perspective) and laboratory-based experimental methods (e.g., screen-based eye tracking and word learning tasks), to understand both the data infants and toddlers create for learning – the statistical structure of early visual and auditory environments – and how they use that data to construct linguistic and object knowledge.