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Dr. Johnson received a BA from the University of Rochester, majoring in Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and completed the Take Five program in Developmental Biology & Evolution. She earned her MA in Psychology and Ph.D. in Psychological & Brain Sciences from Johns Hopkins University. During her final year, she spent a semester visiting the Speech Group at MIT. Following her Ph.D., Johnson accepted a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, where she directs the UTM Child Language and Speech Studies Lab (C.L.A.S.S. Lab). In 2012, she was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Spoken Language Acquisition. Her primary graduate appointment is in Psychology, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Linguistics. Her research focuses on understanding how children acquire their native language(s), covering topics such as spoken word recognition, infants' ability to cope with connected speech, audio-visual speech perception, infant multilingualism, and the development of word-learning heuristics. For more details on her research, please see her lab page.
Department of Sociology