Professor and Chair
Email: lehers1@umbc.edu
Office: Math / Psychology 311
Phone: 410.455.2416
Fax: 410.455.1055
Lab: Sondheim 511
Education:
Ph.D. Brown University;
B.A. Bryn Mawr College
Fall 2024 Office Hours: N/A
Area of Study: Developmental Psychology
Research Interests: Dr. Singh’s research focuses on language and cognitive development in infancy. She focuses on determinants and predictors of early word learning, associations between bilingual experience and language and cognitive development, and socioeconomic factors in early language development. She also conducts analyses of diversity and representation in developmental research.
Courses Taught: N/A
Graduate Research and Training Opportunities:
Accepting graduate students as of Fall 2025
Undergraduate Research and Training Opportunities:
Accepting undergraduate students as of Spring 2025
Graduate Program Affiliation(s):
Applied Developmental Psychology
Leadership Roles in the Department: Chair, Department of Psychology
Selected Publications:
Singh, L., Basnight-Brown, D., Cheon, B.K., Garcia, R., Killen, M., & Mazuka, R. (in press). Ethical and epistemic costs of a lack of geographical and cultural diversity in developmental science. Developmental Psychology.
Singh, L. (in press). A vision for a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and representative developmental science. Developmental Science
Singh, L., & Rajendra, S.J. (2024). Greater attention to socioeconomic status in developmental research can improve the external validity, generalizability, and replicability of developmental science. Developmental Science. e13521.
Singh, L., Barr, R., Quinn, P.C., Kalashnikova, M., Hidalgo-Rocha, J.R., Freda, K., & D’Souza, D. (2024). Effects of environmental diversity on exploration and learning: The case of bilingualism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 10.1037/xge0001562. Advance online publication.
Singh, L., Barokova, M. D., Baumgartner, H. A., Lopera-Perez, D. C., Omane, P. O., Sheskin, M., Yuen, F. L., Wu, Y., Alcock, K. J., Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M., Carstensen, A., Chan, K. C. J., Chuan-Peng, H., Dal Ben, R., Franchin, L., Kosie, J. E., Lew-Williams, C., Okocha, A., . . . Frank, M. C. (2024). A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures. Developmental Psychology, 60(2), 211–227.
Singh, L., Kalashnikova, M., & Quinn, P.C. (2023). Bilingual infants readily orient to novel visual stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 152(11), 3218-3228.
Singh, L., Cristia, A., Karasik, L.B., Rajendra, S.J., & Oakes, L.M. (2023). Diversity and representation in infant research: Barriers and bridges towards a globalized science. Infancy, 28(4), 708-737.