Location
Cambridge, MA, United States
Posted
July 01, 2026
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Title Postdoctoral Fellow in Language Development Research
School Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department/Area Psychology
Position Description
Dr. Elika Bergelson and the Bergelson Lab (https://bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/) in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, with a focus on early language. The Postdoctoral Fellow will be involved in our research on understanding the early cognitive and linguistic skills that underly improvements in word learning and other aspects of language development in the first few years of life. This will primarily involve collecting, analyzing, and writing up experimental data collected in the lab that links different aspects of early skills within and across children, over infancy and toddlerhood. The goal is to build a mechanistic account of how infants become better language learners....
Title Postdoctoral Fellow in Language Development Research
School Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department/Area Psychology
Position Description
Dr. Elika Bergelson and the Bergelson Lab (https://bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/) in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, with a focus on early language. The Postdoctoral Fellow will be involved in our research on understanding the early cognitive and linguistic skills that underly improvements in word learning and other aspects of language development in the first few years of life. This will primarily involve collecting, analyzing, and writing up experimental data collected in the lab that links different aspects of early skills within and across children, over infancy and toddlerhood. The goal is to build a mechanistic account of how infants become better language learners....