Erin Conwell

Erin Conwell serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at North Dakota State University (NDSU), where she has held a faculty position since joining in 2011 after completing post-doctoral research at Harvard University.

Her academic credentials include a Ph.D. from Brown University (2009) and a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003).

As a developmental psycholinguist, Dr. Conwell investigates how children's language experiences shape cognitive development, with specific focus on the mechanisms enabling flexibility in word meanings and the conditions under which children generalize linguistic forms to novel contexts. Her research bridges developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and language acquisition, emphasizing empirical analysis of learning processes in naturalistic settings.

While explicit details about student advising and grant funding are not provided in available sources, her teaching of advanced research methodology courses (PSYC 350, 351, 440/640, 463/663) and leadership of the Language Learning and Processing Lab indicate active mentorship of graduate researchers and commitment to empirical investigation.

She directs NDSU's Language Learning and Processing Lab, which serves as the primary research environment for experimental studies on child language development, cognitive processing of linguistic input, and the interplay between environmental factors and learning outcomes.