What’s the brain doing that it can learn this very, very complex system so quickly? A 1-year-old does very well with new languages, and that’s interesting in terms of brain plasticity and learning. You end up studying kind of the whole ecosystem of what learning looks like. What interested you in language acquisition? She was looking at first language acquisition, which was a topic I fell in love with-it’s what I ended up actually studying when I went to graduate school. The whole time I was at Columbia, I worked in Barbara Landau’s lab as a research assistant. In my family, it was really this idea of, “Where are you going to go to graduate school?” not “if.” I ended up double majoring in English and psychology. When I entered Columbia I thought I would follow in my father’s footsteps and major in English and go on to graduate school. (It was the ’60s, and that was the usual path for women then.) I grew up on the campus of the school and then went to Columbia. My mother taught at the local public school until she had babies. My dad taught at a small private school in New England. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience.įrom when I was very young I set out on an academic path.
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