Welcome to the Goldin-Meadow Laboratory
The Goldin-Meadow Laboratory is a research lab at the University of Chicago in the Department of Psychology headed by Susan Goldin-Meadow. The lab is composed of graduate students and researchers pursuing independent topics related to cognition, development, education, linguistics, and various other fields, but interrelated by the lab’s main focus – the study of non-verbal communication, specifically gestures.
In the News
- Behavioral Scientist (December 20th, 2023): Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2023
- Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda Podcast (April 26th, 2023): Susan Goldin-Meadow: Thinking with your hands
- Scientific American (March 8, 2021): Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate and Gesturer Laureate.
- Linguistic Society of America (October 31, 2019): Best paper in Language 2019 award to be given to article on emergent sign systems.
- UChicago News (May 29, 2019): What nearly all languages have in common – whether you speak or sign.