Dishabituation

May 24, 2007
By Kim Werker


I met my husband because his mom is a leader in the field of developmental psycholinguistics, and back when I was 23 I was a grad student in the same field. The rest is a longer story I’ll tell you if you want to know it, but I bring it up tonight because we just had the giddy pleasure of seeing his mom on The National. A study she did is running in the new issue of Science this week (this is about the most important journal out there), and it’s getting a huge amount of press attention. I’m so excited for her, and for her lab and her colleagues and her students!

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4 Responses to Dishabituation

  1. maryse on May 27, 2007 at 6:16 am

    how very exciting for your MIL. i’m not all that sure what the study means, but being published in Science is a big coup. i wish i could read the full article.

  2. penny on May 29, 2007 at 8:34 am

    That is awesome. :) I heard about the study yesterday (while in Montreal which made it nicer) and was excited by it … once upon a time i assisted in some research somewhat similar (but really not.. just linguistics)… I miss it.

  3. Penguin Girl : montréal .. first notes. on May 31, 2007 at 6:47 pm

    [...] of easy switching of bilingual speakers, I point you to Kim Werker’s mother-in-law’s recent research in psycholinguistics which is in Science this past week. I wish I had been smarter in College and been able to continue [...]

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