Dr Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez
PhD
Reader in Psychology
School of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health
Role
Areas of expertise
- Early Language Development
- Phonology
- Lexical Development
- Bilingualism
- Early Cognitive Development
Teaching and supervision
Courses
Modules taught
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Key areas of Psychology
- Academic Skills for Psychology
- Memory & Language
- Clinical Neuropsychology
- Psychology Project
Postgraduate
- Brain and Cognition
- Research Dissertation
- Cognitive and Social Aspects of Development
Supervision
Previous supervision
- Dr Sam Bond (completed September 2023). A Detailed Exploration Into the Constraints on Statistical Learning.
Research Students
Name | Thesis title | Completed |
---|---|---|
Sam Bond | A Detailed Exploration into the Constraints on Statistical Learning | Active |
Shannon Gibson | Development of Word Learning Heuristics in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants | Active |
Research
I am a member of the Brookes Babylab. My research focuses on understanding the roots of language acquisition, by exploring speech perception in infancy. I’m interested in infants’ capacity to learn phonological properties that occur in their native language, the mechanisms by which these native properties are acquired, and how prior knowledge about these properties supports later lexical acquisition, such as word segmentation and early word learning in monolingual and bilingual infants. I am also very interested in investigating the effect that environmental and maturational factors such as preterm birth, socioeconomic status or a pandemic have on early language acquisition.
Examples of Research Projects:
- Mutual exclusivity in monolingual and bilingual infants.
- Phonological development in monolingual and bilingual infants.
- Constraints on statistical learning.
- Abstract word acquisition.
- The effects of social distancing policies on children’s language development, sleep and executive functions
- Early language acquisition in preterm infants and infants from lower-SES families.
- Linking early phonological development and lexical acquisition.
- Creation of an inventory of phonemic and syllabic frequencies in Spanish.
More details about these projects can be found on the BabyLab webpages.
I am always interested in new collaborations and in supervising students with an interest in any of the areas detailed above. Please do get in touch.
Centres and institutes
Groups
Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution
- BICYCLE (Born In Covid Year Core Lockdown Effects) (01/01/2024 - 31/12/2026), funded by: Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), funding amount received by Brookes: £11,431