In rural Côte d’Ivoire, kids of varying ages learn in the same classroom. Younger vs older readers show different neural activity for phonological processing—neural language & reading networks may depend on the developmental timing of reading instruction onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mb…

Even though the dog had limited interest in celestial phenomena, he was the best companion #Eclipse2024

The most outstanding paper of 2023 in Language Learning was produced by the BOLD Lab who brought our redesigned statistical learning tasks to a field research project on L2 literacy acquisition at Ivory Coast! Check out Benjamin Zinszer Kaja Jasińska and our dream team’s work!

Everyone FaceTimes their dog when they’re traveling, right?

Apprentissage bilingue : leçons de l'Afrique de l'Ouest sur ce qui marche le mieux theconversation.com/apprentissage-… via The Conversation Africa

Good readers are sensitive to statistical regularities between print and sound. Not in low-literacy contexts: good readers leverage semantic regularities to read instead. Implications for statistical learning theories of reading? Check out our new paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Bilingual education is often linked to (but doesn't guarantee) better learning. New BOLD Lab study led by Mary Ball identifies implementation & sociocultural factors critical to high-quality effective bilingual programs in Francophone West Africa. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New BOLD Lab study (@whitehead_han's MA thesis paper). Developmental timing of education is related to the covariance between literacy and numeracy in primary school kids in Côte d'Ivoire - srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

That week between Xmas and New Years

A fall walk with the dog🍂🐕

New BOLD Lab study led by Shakhlo Nematova shows that phonological similarity between two languages may explain the previously reported bilingual effect in audiovisual speech perception sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy dogs enjoying a good crunchy leaf underfoot on our fall walks 🍁🍂

I am recruiting an MA or PhD student to join our BOLD Lab in a joint program in Developmental Psychology and Education, and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. Apply here: oise.utoronto.ca/aphd