Areas of Interest
Cognitive processes involved in second language acquisition and bilingualism across the lifespan Contextual effects on learning new concepts and vocabulary in a first and second language Contextual impacts on dual-language development
Biography
Dr. Lauro is a cognitive psychologist and joined the faculty at Barry in 2020. Prior to coming to Barry, he was a post-doctoral research fellow and adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University. He also worked in the department of Student Assessment and Research for the Broward County Public School district. Dr. Lauro earned his B.S. in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.A. and Ph.D. (2017) from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Selected Publications
- Lauro, J., Hoff, E., & Core, C. (in press). Explaining individual differences in trajectories of simultaneous bilingual development: Contributions of child and environmental factors. Child Development. Lauro, J., Schwartz, A. I., & Francis, W. S. (2020).
- Bilingual novel word learning in sentence context. Journal of Memory and Language, 113. Lauro, J., & Schwartz, A. I. (2019).
- Cognate effects on anaphor processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(3), 381-396. Hoff, E., Giguere, D., Quinn, J., & Lauro, J. (2018).
- The development of English and Spanish among children in immigrant families in the United States. Pensamiento Educativo: Revista de Investigacion Educacional Latinoamericana, 55(2), 1-17. Lauro, J., & Schwartz, A. I. (2017).
- Non-selective lexical access in sentence context: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, 217-233.
Professional Memberships
- American Psychological Association
- Interamerican Society of Psychology
- Psychonomic Society
Undergraduate Courses
- Introduction to Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- Research Methods in Psychology I