Rachel Barr

Rachel F. Barr is a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on understanding the learning and memory mechanisms that development during infancy and directs the Georgetown Early Learning Project (ELP). Have you ever wondered what babies are learning or remembering from the world around them? The ELP focuses on children under 5 years of age because this is a time of rapid development in many domains. We are particularly interested in how children pick up information from multiple sources around them. For this reason we have a number of ongoing projects examining learning and memory, the role of bilingual exposure, parent-child interactions, and learning from media.