Marisa Casillas is an assistant professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on how cognitive and social processes shape the ways in which we learn, perceive, and produce language. Much of the work in her lab examines the relationship between communicative skills and linguistic processing in children and adults, using a combination of experimental- and observation-based methods to comparatively investigate these processes in both urban, Western contexts and rural, Indigenous contexts.

Presentation Video Link: Discussion: Universality and Variation in Language