IN THE MEDIA

Our research has been featured in the media:

• In November 2019, Dr. Poulin-Dubois was interviewed about gendered toys in the November-December edition of Naître et grandir magazine in an article entitled "Jouets genrés: Et si on laissait les enfants sortir du moule?". 
• In March 2016, our work on the cognitive benefits of bilingualism was featured on a “Découverte de Radio-Canada” TV report aimed to disseminate scientific findings to the general public.

• After receiving the prestigious 'Prix ACFAS Thérèse Gouin-Décarie' for Social Sciences in 2016, Dr. Diane Poulin-Dubois was interviewed on AcfasTV. 

• Dr. Poulin-Dubois was interviewed in La Presse for an article on the potential benefits of teaching sign language to hearing infants in September 2014. 

• Psychology Today interviewed Sabrina Chiarella in an article titled "Watch Your Baby Spot a Faker". 

• Our research on selective learning was featured in Le Devoir newspaper in April 2014.

• Press release in 2013 with Sabrina Chiarella and Diane Poulin-Dubois titled “Babies know when you are faking”. This was cited in 98 written and electronic media outlets including: Psychology Today; Radio-Canada; Telegraph; Parents; The Australian; The Himalayan Times; Top News Health.

• Radio-Canada interview in February 2012 on the bilingual brain in Les Années Lumières. 

• In June 2011, The British Psychological Society Research Digest conducted a press release with Ivy Brooker, a former Ph.D. student in the lab, and Dr. Diane Poulin-Dubois. This press release was cited in 41 media outlets including: British Psychological Society Research Digest; The Atlantic; MedicalNews Today; The Daily Mail; Elle France; New York Daily News; ABC Science; Libération. 

• Radio interviews on bilingualism and cognition in children - TBS eFM's This Morning in Seoul, South Korea; 98.5 Montreal; Radio-Canada, Winnipeg; CJFO-FM, Ottawa; The World Today Weekend with Sean Leslie, CKNW, Vancouver. 2011.

• Interviewed on the cognitive benefits of bilingualism published in La Recherche, a scientific magazine, titled "Les enfants bilingues sont plus précoces". 

• In January 2011, Concordia University conducted a Press release on “A second language gives toddlers an edge”. Cited in 56 periodicals and websites, including Agence Science-Presse; Science Daily, Huffington Post