Rain Bosworth
Associate Professor
Rain Bosworth
Associate Professor
Bio
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Dr. Rain Bosworth is an associate professor in Department of Liberal Studies at RIT/NTID. She is a deaf experimental psychologist, studying development of perception and language in infants and children at the newly-founded Perception, Language and Attention in Youth (PLAY) Lab. For her doctoral degree at the University of California, San Diego, she studied visual motion processing and attention in deaf adults, to better understand how deafness and sign language experience impact perceptual abilities. She is currently investigating visual and tactile exploratory behaviors in infants, children and adults to address questions about how we learn and process sign language. She has also studied how easily visual abilities are recovered in children who were treated for congenital eye disorders. Together, these lines of research reveal how early sensory input shapes perception, cognition, and language processing. Dr. Bosworth teaches Intro to Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Biopsychology, and Research Methods.
Her video bio can be viewed here.
More information on how parents can enroll in her Exploratory Behaviors Museum Study at the Strong Museum of Play can be found here.
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In the News
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April 29, 2024
Rain Bosworth studies how deaf children experience the world
ScienceNews talks to Rain Bosworth, associate professor in the Department of Liberal Studies, about her research.
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August 7, 2023
Deaf children’s learning during museum experiences is focus of research study
New research exploring how deaf and hearing preschool-aged children learn through interactive play with their parents is the focus of a partnership between RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and The Strong National Museum of Play.
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May 9, 2022
New lab studies cognitive development in children
Rain Bosworth, an assistant professor and experimental psychologist at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, has created a new research lab that will help scientists learn more about cognition, language, and perception in infants and young children.
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November 1, 2024
Bosworth research on sign-language acquisition cited
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December 7, 2023
Bosworth presents on ableist sampling in psychology research
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August 17, 2022
NTID SPaCE Center researchers to present at conference
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August 4, 2022
Bosworth presents at gesture studies conference