WHYY public radio's Maiken Scott interviews Elika Bergelson and Daniel Swingley on the Newsworks program, to talk about research reported in PNAS in Feb 2012.
  • download interview (~10MB)

    • Report on Bergelson & Swingley on France 2's news program:
  • link to interview
    • Fais gaffe: not everything the announcer says is true of the research. He was enthusiastic, though.

    Daniel Swingley

    (and his rudimentary web page!)

    Associate professor

    University of Pennsylvania
    Department of Psychology
    3401 Walnut Street, rm 411
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
    USA

    Phone: 215-898-0334
    Fax: 215-746-6848
    E-mail: swingley[swirly]psych.upenn.edu

    Note: I finally got rid of the picture from 2001. If you want a different one at a higher resolution, try this. No expensive photographers were harmed to create this image.

    Teaching:
    Cognitive Development (Psych 281; some spring semesters);
    Proseminar in Cognitive Development (Psych 600-302; offered every 3 years);
    Intro. to Psychology (Psych 1; coming in 2013, which is just around the corner);
    Topics in Development: Language Acquisition (Psych 280)
    Independent Research (Psych 399; offered all the time)

    Courses I may do again one day:
    Perceptual Learning (Psych 211/739)
    Applied biophysics: Resurrection of the Smaller Mammals (Bio 831)
    Rapid Transportation among Bishops (Reli. Stud. 725)

    Research Interests: Word recognition and lexical representation in infants and young children; lexical and phonological categorization. Perceptual experiments with infants, acoustic measurements of infant-directed speech, statistical analyses of infant-directed speech corpora, perceptual category learning in adults.