Articles and Interviews
TV & Radio
- 13/06/2024, 3sat
The question of character: free choice or destiny?Scientific documentary with developmental psychologist Prof Dr. Birgit Elsner and participants in the BabyLAB on the topic of personality development
- 14/11/2020, SWR2
How children learn to talk by Katja HankeRadio feature about the steps of language acquisition with Prof. Dr. Barbara Höhle
- 22/11/2018, Deutschlandfunk Kultur
How babies discover the world by Susanne Billig and Petra GeistAudio feature about the research at the BabyLAB of the University of Potsdam with, amonst others, interview of Prof. Dr. Birgit Elsner and lab coordinator Tom Fritzsche
- 11/10/2017, 3sat
How real is reality? by Kurt LangbeinProf. Birgit Elsner on imitiation behaviour in children including scenes from an imitation study with BabyLAB researcher Christiane Patzwald (the BabyLAB sequence starts after about 13 minutes)
- 15/02/2017, nano 3sat
Money and brain: Rich children have larger brains - but are not necessarily smarter by Alexandra KröberInterview with Prof. Birgit Elsner on the putative relation between income of the parents and children's IQ
- 04/03/2015, MDR INFO
German Society for Linguistics meets in Leipzig by Sarah KlößerDr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan explains language acquisition across different languages
- 23/04/2014, X:enius - The Science Magazine on arte
How do we learn a foreign language? What can be done for people who have lost their language?Documents investigations in the babylab as well as language therapy with an aphasic woman at the University of Potsdam
- 19/02/2013, Kulturradio of the rbb
Native tongues: How multilingualism shapes our identity by Vera BlockInterview with Prof. Barbara Höhle on language acquisition
- 13/11/2008, 3sat
Speechless – When suddenly the words are missing von Reinhard SchädlerDocumentary about people with aphasia, the importance of language and current issues in neurolinguistic research, the BabyLAB is also presented with a nice demonstration of the headturn preference procedure (HPP)
Newspapers & Magazines
- 03/05/2021, Baby & Familie
Smiling, giggling, laughing - happy! by Nele LangoschProf. Birgit Elsner about babies' smiling
- 28/01/2021, SPIEGEL
My child during the first year of life by Lea WolzSeries on children's development in each month during the first year of life in collaboration with Prof. Birgit Elsner
- 09/08/2019, Frankfurter Rundschau
Little know-it-alls by Arno WidmannProf. Birgit Elsner on the imitative behavior of toddlers
- January 2018, Eltern Issue 1/2018
Dossier "Spit it out" by Carina FreyProf. Barbara Höhle on the first steps in language acquisition (p. 69f)
- 05/03/2017, Frankfurter Allgmeine Sonntagszeitung
From one milestone to the next by Lucia SchmidtAbout the controversial relation between crawling and development
- July 2016, Eltern Issue 7/2016
A moment, please by Stella BongertzProf. Birgit Elsner on infants' ability to discriminate between inanimate and animate movements (p. 102)
- 16/03/2015, Berliner Zeitung
Such an age difference is unusual by Maike EffingProf. Birgit Elsner on a case of a pupil who ran away from home with her uncle
- 14/03/2014, GESUND - Magazine of the Berliner Morgenpost
What a baby knows about speaking by Adrienne KömmlerArticle about the mechanisms of learning in children
- 01/01/2013, Events - The Potsdam City Magazine
Gaba Gaba in the lab – At the University of Potsdam researchers investigate how babies learn to speak by Annett Lahn (PDF 1,49MB)Interview with Prof. Barbara Höhle on language acquisition
- 02/10/2012, Berliner Morgenpost
Gaba gaba for research by Beate GernhuberArticle about the BabyLAB Potsdam and the French-German project on the acquisition of linguistic rhythm
- 30/03/2011, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten
What does my baby think? by Heike KampeArticle presenting our research on language acquisition and cognitive development
- 11/11/2010, Märkische Allgemeine
Little scientists in the babylab by Rüdiger Braun (PDF 1,26MB)Research on mental abilities in infants
- 04/10/2010, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten
The Nine-month revolution: Modern methods in investigating baby's thinking by Juliane VoigtLooking at how babies think at 9 months of age
- 01/10/2010, PotsKids! No. 60
The babylab at the university in Golmby muk Description of current studies and methods
- 07/06/2010, Der Tagesspiegel
IQ tests, Q-Tips, and smart babies by wezArticle about the Long Night of the Sciences
- 02/06/2010, Berliner Zeitung
Little but smart – At the babylab in Potsdam it's all about how children learn to think and speak by Anne Brüning (PDF 959KB)About the psychological and linguistic research at the BabyLAB
- 15/08/2009, Berliner Morgenpost
The melody of grammar – At the Potsdam Babylab researchers investigate how infants decode their native language. Parents help them even if it sounds silly at times by Christina Brüning (PDF 758KB)Short portrayal of the language acquisition research done at the BabyLAB
- 15/03/2000, Berliner Abendblatt
How babies acquire language – Two women would like to know by susch (PDF 973KB)Introduction to a project on early word recognition
- 15/06/1999, Der Tagesspiegel
What puzzles babies: Infants know more about language than previously thought / The babylab at Potsdam-Golm by Daniel D. Eckert (PDF 1,22MB)Description of studies investigating language acquisition using the headturn preference procedure (HPP)
Online Magazines
- 21/10/2016, Baby & Familie
How children learn to wait by Beatrice SobeckProf. Birgit Elsner on the ability of self-regulation in children and how it can be stimulated
PORTAL WISSEN – The University of Potsdam Research Magazine
- 26/06/2014
Look me in the eyes! What the pupils reveal about language acquisition by Heike Kampe (PDF 414KB)About new studies in the BabyLAB and the work of IDEALAB student Katalin Tamási
- 04/05/2014
Information packaging by Sophie Jäger (PDF 100KB)Interview with Prof. Flavia Adani and Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz who investigate in the BabyLAB how children with specific language impairment and with autism process markers of information structure
- 04/05/2014
In the long run by Sabine Sütterlin (PDF 139KB)Portrayal of the large-scale longitudinal study "PIER" at the Department of Psychology, which investigates developmental risk factors in childhood and adolescence
- 12/06/2012
Speak to me! How babies learn their native language and what therapeutic treatment of language acquisition impairments looks like by Heike Kampe (PDF 1,14MB)About language acquisition research at the BabyLAB and its connection to language therapy at the ZaPP in the training of Patholinguistics students at the University of Potsdam
- 30/01/2007
Differently accented: Features that infants utilize to recognize their native language by Birgit Mangelsdorf (PDF 371KB)Report on a project about early language acquisition