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Surprise-Induced Learning

2025

Cao, Q., Smith-Flores, A., Zhou, J., Perez, J., & Feigenson, L. (2025). Violations of social expectations enhance infants’ learning. Cognition, 264, 106227.

2024

Stahl, A. E., & Feigenson, L. (2024). Young children distinguish the impossible from the merely improbable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(46), e2411297121.

2018

Stahl, A. E., & Feigenson, L. (2018). Violations of Core Knowledge Shape Early Learning. Topics in Cognitive Science.

2017

Stahl, A. E., & Feigenson, L. (2017). Expectancy violations promote learning in young children. Cognition, 163, 1-14

2015

Stahl, A. E., & Feigenson, L. (2015). Observing the unexpected enhances infants’ learning and exploration. Science, 348(6230), 91-94

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What an absolute joy to be able to share this video! We give many thanks to the production team at JHU, and the sweet families and kiddos who were such wonderful participants.🎥This study, conducted by Dr. Aimee Stahl of the College of New Jersey, and our own Dr. Lisa Feigenson, explored how little kids think about possibilities, demonstrating that even very young kids learn new information better when they encounter seemingly impossible events!😯Watch the video to learn more, and as always, please feel free to check out our website for additional information and to sign up to participate.👶🏻😊 We hope everyone is this excited to be back after Fall Break!🍁Our tiniest scientists sure are!🤗 A BIG congratulations to our wonderful (now former) grad student, Qiong Cao for completing her dissertation defense today!🎉🍾So many years of hard work culminating in a beautiful presentation and display of your efforts🏆 Best of luck on your journey, we will miss you greatly here at the Baby Lab!!☺️👶🏻 Silly face Friday!🤪🥸😯 Some of our happy little researchers from this week!👩‍🔬It was a busy week for the Baby Lab as our students are recruiting like crazy! We love to see a lab full of sweet smiling faces!☺️ As we put some more effort into growing our page and improving our social media presence, I want to introduce our Fall 2024 Baby Lab team! 👶🏻 As always, our lab is headed by Dr. Lisa Feigenson and Dr. Justin Halberda. This semester we also have 6 great grad students, 8 wonderful research assistants, and a brand new lab manager!📚With all these hard workers we have a super team to start the school year strong!💯 Some of our cutest scientists hard at work! #science #johnshopkins #childdevelopment Thank you to our amazing summer crew for all your hard work! And a special shout out to our REU summer students - we'll miss you❤️ We're looking for 5 year-olds to participate in our fun online study about understanding other people's abilities!
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