Dare Baldwin (Developmental)

Office: 386 Straub Hall
E-mail: baldwin@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-4964
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Dr. Baldwin’s research concerns language and cognitive development in infancy and early childhood. Her primary interests concern the mechanisms by which infants and young children acquire knowledge to guide future learning and action. Language-learning is a particularly interesting domain for examining these issues because language is an extremely complex system and yet it is acquired at a rapid pace when children are still very young and hence have only limited world experience. Dr. Baldwin examines the propensities and skills that enable language acquisition to proceed so quickly and smoothly at such an early age. In another line of work, Dr. Baldwin investigates skills that enable infants to make sense of others’ actions in terms of the goals and intentions motivating those actions.