Lakshmi GogateLakshmi Gogate is a developmental psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Florida Gulf Coast University. She received a Doctorate in Developmental Psychology from Rutgers University and a Masters in Linguistics from Michigan State Unversity. She is the recipient of a Dissertation Research Award from the APA, a Dean’s Research Initiative award from the College of Medicine at SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn, and a Senior Faculty Scholarship Excellence Award at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her research focuses on the perceptual origins of language development in term and preterm infants. In particular, she investigates the embodied organismic-environmental interactions that result in infants’ learning of names for objects and actions. Her research has been funded by the Thrasher Research Fund, The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and The National Science Foundation. Her papers include a theoretical model (with Hollich. G, “Invariance detection within an interactive system: A perceptual gateway to language development”, 2010, Psychological Review) and a computational model (with Prince, C.G & Matatyaho, D. “Two-month-old infants’ sensitivity to changes in syllable-object pairings: The role of temporal synchrony, 2009, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance) of word learning. Read More Read Less