Lab Temporarily Relocated
Due to a major fire in the Duff Roblin building at the University of Manitoba, the lab was closed in March 2009. We resumed operations in July, and are temporarily located on the first floor of the Fletcher Argue building. If you would like to participate in one of our studies, please contact us.
Lab Staff
Lab Director
Melanie Soderstrom, Assistant Professor
Dr. Soderstrom has been doing research and teaching in infant speech perception and early grammatical development for close to ten years. She is a recent arrival to the University of Manitoba and is looking forward to getting to know many of the parents of young children in the area through her research. Currently she is teaching Child Development and a seminar in Infant Speech Perception.
Graduate Students
Melissa Wong
Melissa Wong recently graduated from UBC with a BA in psychology. She began her first year at University of Manitoba as a graduate student in the Fall 2009. We are very excited to have her join the lab!
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Joanna Bhaskaran
Volunteer in baby language lab. She is a third-year psychology student in the Faculty of Science. Interested in the clinical aspect of child psychology. (other interests - writing, basketball, music)
Uliana Nevzorova
Uliana Nevzorova is in her final year of the Honors BA program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba.
Recent Collaborators
James Morgan
Dr. James Morgan is a reknowned researcher in infant speech perception. He is especially well known for his early work in formal models of acquisition, and later work in many topics in infant speech perception, including phonological bootstrapping, phoneme perception, statistical learning, and perception of infant-directed speech. He was Dr. Soderstrom's mentor during her postdoctoral years at Brown University.
Katherine White
Dr. Katherine White completed her BA in Psychology and French from Cornell University before completing her PhD in Cognitive Science at Brown University. Her research includes Infant speech perception, phonological development, lexical representation and spoken word recognition. Dr. White is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo.
Megan Blossom
Megan Blossom worked for 2 years as a research assistant at the Metcalf Infant Research Lab at Brown University. She completed her undergraduate degree at Brown in 2005 with a major in cognitive neuroscience. After a couple of years of research experience Megan headed off to graduate school. She is now started in a graduate program in the Child Language Doctoral Program at the University of Kansas.