I am interested in how children’s rapid language acquisition emerges from the interaction of their learning mechanisms and the structure of their learning environments. My work combines behavioral and computational analysis of infants’, children’s, and adults’ learning mechanisms with corpus analyses of the language children hear and the world they see. Come visit me at the Communication and Learning Lab.

I am an active contributor to Wordbank, an open repository for developmental vocabulary data. I’ve also helped to develop some R packages you might find useful. Check out tidyboot, wordbankr, and childesr. My lab is also a contributor to the ManyBabies project, and we are enthusiastic about reproducibility and open science more broadly.

Lectures:

• PSYC 201 – Psychological Statistics – Fall 18, Fall 16-17.
• SOSC 141 – The Mind – Spring 19, Spring 18, Winter 17.

Seminars:

• Computational Models of Cognition and Development (Spring 19)
• Genes and Environment in Language and Cognitive Development (Spring 17-18, with Susan Levine)
• Social Learning and Cognitive Development (Spring 16-17, with Amanda Woodward)

• yurovsky@uchicago.edu
• 773 834 3381
• Green 201