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Elika Bergelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the mechanisms of early language learning in infants and toddlers. Through her work in the Bergelson lab, she investigates how infants learn to associate sounds with meanings and how their early mental representations influence their language acquisition. She aims to build a theoretical framework explaining how children develop language competency by probing the information they encounter in their daily environments. Her laboratory employs a variety of methods to study the cognitive processes underpinning language learning, seeking to characterize the experiences and capacities that contribute to the development of language understanding among children.
Harvard University • Cambridge, MA
Elika Bergelson conducts research and teaches courses related to developmental psychology, focusing on language acquisition in infants.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).