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CHILD DEVELOPMENT LAB
ABOUT
The Child Development Lab
The Child Development Lab is run by Dr. Sarah Berger, who holds a Ph.D. in cognitive development from New York University.
Dr. Berger and her research team study the development of infants’ problem-solving skills in the context of locomotion. For example, we study how infants learn to navigate around obstacles that stand between them and a goal. We use infants’ motor behaviors to gain insight into underlying cognitive processes.
In our NSF-funded work on the impact of sleep on learning in infancy, we ask about the role of the quality of sleep on how well infants learn; about the importance of timing of napping relative to learning; and the contributions of day and night sleep to infants' learning.
We also study the relation between the onset of new motor skill and quality of sleep in infancy.
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