UCLA Language, Interaction, and Gesture Lab
Exploring the evolution and development of language and social cognition through studies of apes and children.
Welcome to our lab!
The beautiful UCLA campus right outside the lab
Presenting work at UCLA undergraduate research week
Mother and infant orangutan greeting each other
Our political gesture coding team
Lab pumpkin painting party in fall 2023
Lab graduation party 2023
Chimpanzee infant teasing its mother
Training for a child gesture study
Puppeteering skills not required
Lab group in front of Haines Hall 2019 (pre-pandemic)
Cozy corner in the lab