Rebecca Gomez

Pronouns: 

she/her/hers

Professor, Cognition/Neural Systems

Director, Child Cognition Lab

Degree(s): 

BA 1985 Philosophy, New Mexico State University
MA 1989 Experimental Psychology, New Mexico State University
Ph.D. 1995 Experimental Psychology, New Mexico State University

Office: 

Psychology 442

Homepage: 

http://childcognitionlab.arizona.edu

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eptgiMcA…

Research Interests: 

• Studying infant and child language acquisition
• Investigating how sleep impacts learning and memory in infants and young children
• Understanding developmental cognitive neuroscience

I study how infants, children and adults learn language; how their learning is improved by sleep; how they connect learning experiences across time and how the developing brain supports language acquisition.  

I also study the memory processes that enable learners to update their memories with new information. Many of these processes are used throughout the lifespan so I conduct studies with learners of different ages to better understand how memory processes are supported by the brain and how they change with development.