Email: lehers1@umbc.edu
Office: Math / Psychology 311
Phone: (410) 455-1586
Lab: Sondheim 511
Leadership Roles
- Chair, Department of Psychology
Professor and Chair
Education
- Ph.D. — Brown University
- B.A. — Bryn Mawr College
Area(s) of Study
- Developmental Psychology
Courses Taught
N/A
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.
Graduate Research and Training Opportunities
NO: Not accepting graduate students at this time.
Undergraduate Research and Training Opportunities
YES: accepting undergraduate students at this time.
Graduate Program Affiliation(s)
Applied Developmental 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.