Erin E. Campbell
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Erin Campbell is a Research Assistant Professor in the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Erin studies early language and cognition among children born deaf and/or blind. Her research focuses on (1) how perceptual experience (seeing, hearing, touch) and language input shape early language development, and (2) how children and adults learn words for things they cannot directly experience.
Dr. Campbell’s approach to research uses multiple methodologies (eye-tracking, electroencephalography (EEG), behavioral, and corpus work) and modalities (spoken, signed, and tactile languages).
Before joining BU, Erin earned a PhD in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience from Duke University with a dissertation titled, “The Influence of Early Sensory and Linguistic Experience on Lexical Development.”
Outside of the lab, Erin finds joy in reading, practicing cyr wheel, and watching bumblebees in her garden.
