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David Barner is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California San Diego. His research focuses on language development, conceptual development, and cognitive processes in children, particularly examining how children acquire language, numerical systems, and temporal reasoning. He employs cross-cultural methodologies, studying populations in India, Japan, Latin America, China, and Eastern Europe. His work bridges developmental psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science, with notable contributions to understanding the mental timeline, numerical cognition, and the role of syntax in semantic acquisition.
Barner leads the Language & Development Lab at UCSD, which investigates how children construct mental representations of time, number, and logical relationships. His research highlights the interplay between linguistic structures and cognitive development, including studies on cardinal extension, scalar implicature, and the acquisition of temporal terms like 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow.'
Recent studies explore children's understanding of infinity, the role of print exposure in resolving linguistic ambiguities, and the cognitive foundations of exact equality concepts. His work often integrates experimental methods with computational modeling to explain how abstract concepts emerge from linguistic and perceptual experiences.
