Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC)

How do infants and young children learn about the world around them? This overarching question is the foundation for the research carried out by the Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at UC Santa Barbara. Our research program is primarily focused on the social learning strategies that humans use to acquire information about plants over the course of infancy and early childhood. For many of us today, plants are peripheral to our everyday lives. However, across evolutionary time, learning which plants could be eaten and which plants were dangerous would have been critical to human survival. Past and future research projects conducted by our lab aim to examine the ways in which this ancient problem has left its mark on our modern minds.

Contact Us:
Website:  https://lilac.psych.ucsb.edu/
Phone: (805) 893-7048   
General inquiries: psych-lilac@ucsb.edu
To participate in a study: psych-lilac-studies@ucsb.edu