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Language Development in Deaf Children: What You Should Know
This article is authored by Rachel Storer with the mentorship of Sarah M. Tashjian and is a part of the 2018 pre-graduate spotlight week. It wasn’t until 1960 that linguists began to consider sign language a language separate from spoken language (Stokoe, 1960). Many linguists believed that sign language was a signed version of the…
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Introducing the Pre-Graduate Spotlight Series!
Last year, Psychology in Action celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary here at UCLA! Over the years, we have published hundreds of blog posts, hosted numerous of science communication events, and have continued to provide UCLA psychology graduate students the opportunity to disseminate our research to the community. This spring, a select group of PIA graduate…
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Sensory Sensitivity and Autism
Have you seen the billboards by Autism Speaks? “Sensory sensitivity is a sign of autism”. As an autism researcher, I think it’s absolutely wonderful to increase awareness of the symptom profile of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So often the greatest emphasis is placed on difficulties within the social domain, and many media portrayals…
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Consequences of Low Status: Balancing Sociality and Self-Preservation
People are naturally social—every day we interact with other people. However, these interactions do not occur in isolation; rather, they are couched within a larger social hierarchy that can actually influence how we treat each other. These hierarchies are very visible in animals, as animals fight for mates or leadership (your dog will even…
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What is empathy?
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Hi Baby, What are you Looking at?
Babies are so much more capable than we give them credit for. The analogy that young children’s minds are like sponges overlooks the active role infants play in their development. But what tools are at their disposal that facilitates this active participation? Long before infants can walk or talk, they use vision as a key…
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MythBusters: Highlighting helps me study
You have a test this week, so you lay out your set of highlighters, open your textbook (for what may be the first time), and embark on your mission to know every important detail for your test. This is a common experience and everyone seems to think that highlighting ‘key points’ in the text is…
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Social Cognition and Language
Humans and non-human animals alike have to process and respond to specific information about their social environments in order to navigate the social world. But language seems to shape how we process and respond to such information. So are certain forms of social cognition uniquely human?