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Rebecca Gómez obtained her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from New Mexico State University in 1995 and completed a post-doctoral position at the University of Arizona before taking her first faculty position at Johns Hopkins University in 1999. She returned to the University of Arizona in 2001 where she is presently a Professor. Dr. Gómez directs the Child Cognition Lab, housed in the Department of Psychology.
Dr. Gómez studies learning and language development in infants, toddlers, and pre-schoolers. She also studies memory development and the role of sleep in child learning. Dr. Gómez was the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, has been an associate editor for Cognition, a leading journal in the field of cognitive science, and has served on the editorial boards of Psychological Science and Language Learning and Development.Show Less
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Learning systems and brain development. Memory formation in infancy and early childhood. Language ...
Courses
- DPDevelopmental Psychology
- ICDIntroduction to Cognitive Development
Grants
- Identification of Treatment Parameters that Maximize Language Treatment Efficacy for Children.
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$641.3K
Active - Summer Training Academy for Research in STEM (STARS) Program
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.3M
Active - Identification of Treatment Parameters that Maximize Language Treatment Efficacy for Children
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$634.5K
Active - Identification of Treatment Parameters That Maximize Language Treatment Efficacy for Children
Co-Investigator (COI)
2016
$3.0M
- Brain Development, Sleep and Learning in Down Syndrome
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$249.5K
- Sleep-dependent memory consolidation in very young infants
Principal Investigator (PI)
2012
$143.0K
- Imaging Learning in Developmental Language Disorder
Co-Investigator (COI)
2011
$2.1M
- The Role of Sleep in Language Learning and Abstraction
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$400.9K
- Receptive Language Skills in Developmental Language Disorder
Co-Investigator (COI)
2009
$161.5K
- Receptive Language Skills in Developmental Language Disorder
Co-Investigator (COI)
2008
$1.3M
News
- Naps Hinder Learning in Children With Down Syndrome
2018
- Study Finds Naps May Help Preschoolers Learn
2017
- Research Proves Children Retain More Information When They've Napped After Learning
2014
- Babies and Sleep: Another Reason to Love Naps
2010
- Tweety Lab to Explore Innate Language Abilities of Infants
2004
- How and Why Do Children Learn?
2003
Publications (96)
Recent
- A daytime nap combined with nighttime sleep promotes learning in toddlers
2021
- The role of sleep in retention of new words in habitually and non-habitually napping children
2021
- The Role of Spontaneous Repetitions During Treatment of Morphosyntactic Forms for Children With Developmental Language Disorder
2021
- Exploring the
2020
- Parameters of memory reconsolidation: Learning mode influences likelihood of memory modification
2020
- Associations between sleep and episodic memory updating
2020
- Exploring the “anchor word” effect in infants: Segmentation and categorisation of speech with and without high frequency words
2020
- Learning in Infancy
2020
- Sleep’s role in memory reconsolidation
2020
- Sleep in Infancy and Early Childhood
2020
- A Role for Sleep in Understanding Language Acquisition
2019
- Curiosity-driven memory enhancement persists over time but does not benefit from post-learning sleep
2018
- REM sleep in naps differentially relates to memory consolidation in typical preschoolers and children with Down syndrome
2018
- How well does Statistical Learning Address the Challenges of Real-World Language Learning?
2018
- 0107 Episodic Memory Updating Is Predicted By N2 Sleep Spindle Activity After Reactivation
2018
- How who is talking matters as much as what they say to infant language learners
2018
- Learning without trying: The clinical relevance of statistical learning
2018
- Losing memories during sleep after targeted memory reactivation
2018
- 0205 TO NAP OR NOT TO NAP? SLEEP-DEPENDENT MEMORY CONSOLIDATION IN TYPICALLY AND ATYPICALLY DEVELOPING PRESCHOOLERS
2017
- Brain correlates of memory reconsolidation: A role for the TPJ
2017
- 0234 LOSING MEMORIES WITH TARGETED MEMORY REACTIVATION
2017
- 0230 SLEEP’S ROLE IN CURIOSITY DRIVEN MEMORY ENHANCEMENT
2017
- Sleep confers a benefit for retention of statistical language learning in 6.5month old infants
2017
- Updating Episodic Memories: A Special Role of Spatial Context
2017
- Words to Sleep On: Naps Facilitate Verb Generalization in Habitually and Nonhabitually Napping Preschoolers
2017
- Preschool Children's Memory for Word Forms Remains Stable Over Several Days, but Gradually Decreases after 6 Months
2016
- Aligning implicit learning and statistical learning: Two approaches, one phenomenon.
2016
- Preschool children’s memory for word forms remains stable over several days, but gradually decreases after 6 months
2016
- Corrigendum to" Generalizing memories over time: Sleep and reinforcement facilitate transitive inference"[Neurobiol. Learn. Memory 100 (2013) 70-76]
2016
- Overriding the Metrical Bias with Lexical Information: English-Learning 7.5-Month-Olds Use Mommy to Segment Iambic Words
2016
- The extended trajectory of hippocampal development: Implications for early memory development and disorder
2016
- Do infants retain the statistics of a statistical learning experience? Insights from a developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective
2016
- Corrigendum to “Generalizing memories over time: Sleep and reinforcement facilitate transitive inference”.
2016
- English-learning 7.5-month-olds use Mommy to segment iambic words
2016
- How do high frequency words assist language acquisition in 12-month-olds?
2016
- The nature of the language input affects brain activation during learning from a natural language
2015
- The teen sleep loss epidemic: What can be done?
2015
- Sleep as a window into early neural development: Shifts in sleep‐dependent learning effects across early childhood
2015
- Sleep as a Window Into Early Neural Development: Shifts in Sleep-Dependent Learning Effects Across Early Childhood
2015
- Memory Reconsolidation
2015
- Is prior experience necessary for 5.5 month-old infants to use the statistical regularity of an unchanging object on an changing background for segmentation?
2015
- Does hearing dialects at different times help infants learn dialect-specific rules?
2015
- Wakefulness (not sleep) promotes generalization of word learning in 2.5‐year‐old children
2014
- Generalizing memories over time: Sleep and reinforcement facilitate transitive inference
2013
- Exemplar variability facilitates rapid learning of an otherwise unlearnable grammar by individuals with language-based learning disability
2013
- Memory Reconsolidation: Chapter eleven. Episodic Memory Reconsolidation: An Update
2013
- Effects of psychosocial stress on episodic memory updating
2013
- Probabilistically Cued Patterns Trump Perfect Cues in Statistical Language Learning
2013
- Episodic memory reconsolidation: An update
2013
- The development of nonadjacent dependency learning in natural and artificial languages
2013
- Memory formation, consolidation and transformation
2012
- The road to word class acquisition is paved with distributional and sound cues
2012
- and Sleep in Children
2011
- Prior experience shapes abstraction and generalization in language acquisition
2011
- Memory, sleep and generalization in language acquisition
2011
- Learning, and Sleep Memory, in Children
2011
- The road to word class acquisition is paved with distributional and sound cues Michelle Sandoval, Kalim Gonzales and
2011
- Episodic memory updating: The role of context familiarity
2011
- Learning, memory, and sleep in children
2011
- Grice, HP 105,114 Gross, J. 82 Guillaume, P. 36, 49 Gussenhoven, C. 139, 151 H
2010
- Processing constraints on learning
2009
- The relation between linguistic analogies and lexical categories
2009
- The relation between morphosyntactic analogies and syntactic categories
2009
- Episodic memory reconsolidation: updating or source confusion?
2009
- LouAnn Gerken, Rachel Wilson
2009
- Nap‐dependent learning in infants
2009
- Episodic memory: reconsolidation
2008
- Twelve-month-old infants benefit from prior experience in statistical learning
2008
- The dynamics of memory: Context-dependent updating
2008
- Reconsolidation of episodic memories: A subtle reminder triggers integration of new information
2007
- Statistical learning in infant language development
2007
- The role of prior experience in language acquisition
2007
- The effects of variation on learning word order rules by adults with and without language-based learning disabilities
2006
- Dynamically guided learning
2006
- Naps promote abstraction in language-learning infants
2006
- The developmental trajectory of nonadjacent dependency learning
2005
- A first step in form-based category abstraction by 12-month-old infants
2004
- Reduction of uncertainty in human sequential learning: Evidence from artificial grammar learning
2003
- Variability and detection of invariant structure
2002
- Sensitivity to word order cues by normal and language/learning disabled adults
2002
- The salience of temporal cues in the developing structure of event knowledge
2000
- Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition
2000
- The basis of transfer in artificial grammar learning
2000
- How implicit is implicit learning?
1999
- The handbook of implicit learning.
1999
- Artificial grammar learning by 1-year-olds leads to specific and abstract knowledge
1999
- Attention and probabilistic sequence learning
1998
- Transfer and complexity in artificial grammar learning
1997
- Assessing beliefs about'environmental illness/multiple chemical sensitivity'
1996
- Conceptual Maps and Simulated Teaching Episodes as Indicators of Competence in Teaching Elementary Mathematics
1996
- Conceptual maps and simulated teaching episodes as indicators of competence in teaching elementary mathematics.
1996
- On the relation of implicit and explicit learning
1995
- What Is Learned From Artificial Grammars? Transfer Tests of Simple Association
1994
- What is learned from artificial grammars? Transfer tests of simple association.
1994
- Pedagogical knowledge structures in prospective teachers: Relationships to performance in a teaching methodology course
1993
- A pathfinder analysis of pedagogical knowledge structures: A follow-up investigation
1993