Dr. Colunga is an Associate Professor in the department of Psychology and Neuroscience and in the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her lab studies interactions between language and cognition using cross-linguistic, developmental and computational modeling methods — she makes computer models that simulate how young children learn words in different situations to understand how language develops. Her work has been funded by the John Merck scholars foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Colunga received her PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Indiana University and her MS in Artificial Intelligence from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.
