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COGNITIVE

DEVELOPMENT

LAB

About us

The Cognitive Development Laboratory (CDL) in the Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, is a group of graduate, undergraduate, and postgraduate research assistants supervised by Prof. Gedeon Deák, who share an interest in the cognitive and development science in infancy and early childhood.

We conduct research on questions related to:

Our research primarily uses behavioral methods but with our collaborators we sometimes incorporate neuropsychological (EEG) and modeling techniques.

News & Events

2024

August, 2024: Presentation to the Baby Siblings Research Consortium by Gedeon Deák & Yueyan Tang

July, 2024: Presentations at ICIS in Glasgow, Scotland, by Yueyan Tang, Marianne Alonzo and Gedeon Deák

June, 2024: Congratulations to graduating lab members Sreetama Chowdhury, Ky Freeman, Abby Harmatz, Brandon Kao, Angela Liu, Ana Maynez, Ghania Medhi, Lexi Ricasata, Cynthia Wang, & Haochen (Angie) Zhao!! 

June, 2024: Yueyan Tang advances to candidacy

May, 2024: Presentations at ICDL in Austin, TX by Yueyan Tang and Gedeon Deák