Letitia Naigles

Professor of psychological sciences
University of Connecticut

Letita Naigles is professor of psychology and director of the Child Language Lab at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

From this contributor

Spectrum from The Transmitter.
Spectrum

Questions for Letitia Naigles: Parsing pronoun confusion

By Ann Griswold
7 June 2016 | 7 min read

Explore more from The Transmitter

Monkeys at Dutch primate center.
Animal models

Dutch primate center awaits October animal research debate

Science is forging ahead at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands, following a reversal of last year’s mandate to phase out primate studies. But researchers aren’t sure how long the reprieve will last.

By Lauren Schenkman
2 September 2026 | 5 min read
By clicking to watch this video, you agree to our privacy policy.
Brain Inspired Microphone

When we sleep, our brain is filled with spontaneous neural activity. What is it doing?

Daniel Levenstein explains how internally generated brain activity during sleep shapes our cognition, and why NeuroAI is such a powerful approach to understanding the brain.

By Paul Middlebrooks
2 September 2026 | 96 min listen
Research image of organoids.
Spectrum

Unconfounding genetic and environmental factors, and more

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 31 August.

By Jill Adams
1 September 2026 | 2 min read