Pictures 2024 Live Well/Vive Bien Community Outreach Our team has had so much fun at the Live Well/Vive Bien community out reach events talking to families about our research and helping hand out produce! ———————————- Longhorn Research Poster Session Claudia Wimsatt presented an analysis of the cognitive advantage of bilingualism in a memory generalization task performance at the Longhorn Research Poster Session! ———————————- Undergraduate Research Forum Isabelle Costello presented on the role of exposure and heritage language on novel word-learning in Spanish-English bilingual children at the Undergraduate Research Forum! ———————————- Latino Research Institute Access Program Fellowship Liliana Beltran presented on dialect differentiation in young Latinx children and how that impacts friendship for the Latino Research Institute Access Program Fellowship! ———————————- Cognitive Development Society Conference Our graduate student, Stephanie, and our lab manager, Virginia, went to the Cognitive Development Society conference in Pasadena, California! They presented a poster on the impacts of parental code-switching on bilingual toddlers’ word learning abilities. ———————————- Mueller Farmer’s Market Our team went to the Mueller Farmer’s Market to spread the word about our research and get to know families! ———————————- 2023 NTNU Students Visit the ChiLDS Lab In partnership with Little Tiger Chinese Immersion School, we had four NTNU students from Taiwan visit our lab! They received a tour of the lab and learned about our studies and about fNIRS. ———————————- Waterloo Park Morning Glories Virginia Chen and Liliana Beltran tabling for our lab at Waterloo Park! ———————————- Undergraduate Research Forum Paola Celis presented her thesis on memory flexibility between bilinguals and monolinguals at the research forum! ———————————- College of Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research Forum Anika Bhatia, Isabelle Costello, Alyssa Carrasco, and Alyssa Garlepp presented research on the ChiLDS Lab Word Learning Study and Mask Wearing Study. Check out the Word Learning Poster and Presentation here! Check out the Mask Wearing poster and presentation here! 2022 Human Ecology Honors Symposium Minerva Ramirez presents her honors thesis titled Resting State Functional Connectivity Brain Networks of Bilingual and Monolingual Infants. Listen to the presentation here. ———————————- Graduates of Distinction Ceremony Minerva Ramirez is presented with Dean’s Honors Graduate and Research Distinction upon her graduation year. Read more about her nomination. ———————————- Undergraduate Research Forum Minerva Ramirez, Paola Celis, and Cierra Cervantez presenting their respective posters at the CNS Undergraduate Research Forum. 2021 Harvard University’s Women in Psychology: Trends in Psychology Summit Virtual Conference Leila R. Abel presented Spanish-speaking bilinguals’ use of disambiguation in their heritage language during this conference. Check out her poster! Amiguitos Fall Festival Dr. Arredondo, Carolina Gamez, and Hallie Goodstein tabling for our lab at the Amiguitos Fall Festival!
