Viridiana Benitez is an assistant professor of psychology at Arizona State University. With expertise in language and cognitive development, she focuses on how bilingualism impacts word learning in infants, children and adults.
At Arizona State, Benitez runs the
Learning & Development Lab, a developmental psychology research group that studies children ages 7 and under. This lab is part of the
Early Childhood Cognition Research Group, a developmental psychology lab examining how infants and children understand their environment.