A pervasive goal in the study of how children learn word meanings is to explain how young
children solve the mapping problem. The mapping problem asks how language learners …

Educational linguists across England and the USA have long critiqued deficit-based
language ideologies in schools, yet since the early 2010s, these have enjoyed a marked …

Cognitive psychology has traditionally focused on investigating principles of cognition that
are universal across the human species. The motivation to identify “cognitive universals” …

This study critically examines the biases and methodological shortcomings in studies
comparing deaf and hearing populations, demonstrating their implications for both the …

Linguistic practices allow individuals to build conceptions of experience that are culture
specific and community shared. We examine this process in relation to a metalinguistic …

A diverse body of research conducted since the start of Covid‐19 has investigated the
impact of the pandemic on children's environments and their language development. This …

The issue of generalizability in psychological and cognitive sciences is best understood in
the broader context and history of the disciplines and human research in general …

Recent studies have demonstrated incontrovertibly that person perception influences
language perception. Much of this research is predicated on the notion that social categories …

On 1 January 2020, I took on the role as Editor-in-Chief of Memory and Cognition. My vision
has been and continues to be to create a venue for research that broadens our …

Researching migrant and multilingual parents' literacy practices with their children is
ethically complex due to the dominant discourses of language and literacy which devalue …