Claartje Levelt Professor at the Centre for Linguistics

Claartje Levelt is the head of the Lipsius location of the Babylab, and together with students from the Linguistics department she investigates how babies learn a language.

Szilvia Biro

Szilvia Biro is the head and scientific coordinator of the Pieter de la Court site for the Babylab. Dr. Biro investigates social-cognitive development of infants and works with students from the Institute of Psychology and from the Institute of Child and Education.

Sita ter Haar

Sita ter Haar is assistant professor at Child and Education Studies. Shs studies early language development in babies and is interested in both behavioural and brain development. In addition, she performs comparative research with animals, like songbirds where sounds are learnt in a comparable way to humans. For both lines of research she works together with students from Child and Education as well as from other institutes.

Natasja Delbar

Natasja Delbar is a PhD researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. After completing the research master in Linguistics, she is now researching speech production mechanisms in young children, and she is a part of the PerPLex project, which focuses on the relationship between speech production and speech perception in toddlers.

Isabella Saccardi

Isabella is a senior Research Assistant and works on the implementation of our online study.

Giulia Vigna

Giulia is a Research Master’s student in Education and Child Studies. She studied Primary Education (Teacher Training program) in Italy and she is now in the Netherlands to further investigate human development from a psychological and neuroscientific point of view.ster student following the Applied Neuroscience program at the Institute of Child and Family Studies.

Tingting Zheng

Tingting Zheng is currently completing her PhD's degree in Psycholinguistics. Her dissertation is about pitch processing in lexical prosody, and her research fields include sound symbolism, language development, and neurocognition. Her interests extend to emotion processing and underlying neural mechanisms.