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These take place at our physical lab! Directions to the parking garage can be found here. These studies typically take around 20-30 minutes as we like to allow time for families to feel comfortable in our lab and so we can answer any questions! In our infant studies, your baby will sit in a highchair and be presented with displays consisting of objects or video animations. For older children, the studies are set up as interactive games or Q&As, and typically involve your child playing with small toys, learning names for novel objects, playing guessing games with an experimenter, or watching short videos and answering some questions about them! See pictures below to get an idea of what your little scientist will get to do, and check out our Virtual Tour to familiarize yourself with our lab layout.
Current In-Person Studies
Can babies use the emotion of surprise to guide their explorations of the world?
For ages 8-18 months!
In a super fun in-person study at our lab, we will show your child different toys doing surprising or unsurprising things, and measure how interested they are in looking at them and playing with them.
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How do children come to reason through a logical problem?
For ages 54-69 months!
We are interested in how children come to reason through a logical problem. In a 30-minute in-person study at our lab, we will play a fun game where your child is challenged to learn the members of two teams. After learning these members, they will participate in a series of trials which will test their reasoning about teams.
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