REBECCA FROST

Dr. Rebecca Frost is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Edge Hill University, specializing in cognitive development and language acquisition. She holds a PhD from Lancaster University (2014) and has conducted postdoctoral research at Lancaster University (2014–2017) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (2017–2021). Her research focuses on statistical learning mechanisms in infants and children, particularly how environmental variability and sleep influence language acquisition. She teaches modules including Developmental Psychology, Research Methods, and Educational Psychology.

• Education: PhD in Psychology (Lancaster University, 2014)
• Research Interests: Statistical learning, language development, cognitive mechanisms, sleep’s role in learning

Her work bridges developmental psychology and cognitive science, emphasizing how learners extract patterns from the environment. Recent studies explore infant attention dynamics in cross-situational learning and long-term language skill predictions from early statistical learning abilities.

• PhD Supervision: Katja Stärk (MPI for Psycholinguistics), Helena Ramirez Arenas (Edge Hill University)
• Collaborations: International partnerships in psycholinguistics and cognitive development research