Dr. Catharine Echols

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Catharine H Echols is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in developmental psychology. Her research primarily focuses on language development and social-cognitive development in children. Echols explores how children use social information, such as gaze, non-verbal cues, and social context, to evaluate linguistic information. Her work addresses how cultural and socio-economic factors influence language acquisition. Dr. Echols has conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University, and she collaborates with colleagues at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, studying bilingual children in the United States. She leads the Language Development Lab at Texas and is involved in promoting equity in developmental research.

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