Craig Chambers

Craig Chambers is a Professor and Department Chair in the University of Toronto Department of Psychology. His research focuses on human communication, cognitive science, and psycholinguistics, particularly language processing across the lifespan and communication with social robots.

• Education:
  • B.A. in Linguistics, York University
  • M.A. in Linguistics, University of Toronto
  • M.A. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
  • Ph.D. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics, University of Rochester

His lab investigates how speakers balance verbal and non-verbal information (gestures, intonation, environmental context) to convey meaning, and how listeners integrate these cues during comprehension. Recent studies explore pragmatic inferences, lexical competition, age-related differences in language processing, and social robotics applications.

Key article trends include child language acquisition, speech perception in aging populations, multimodal communication, and language prediction mechanisms. Lab activities blend rigorous scientific inquiry with playful experimentation, including initiatives like "The PAL LAB PLAYS!"