Baby's First Plants

Your baby will watch a video featuring a plant and either a doll or a ball. We'll observe your baby's reactions when we reveal one or both objects. This study will help us understand how infants may categorize plants as different from animate agents and inanimate objects.

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Do some of the dogs have a hat?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will judge sentences describing pictures of animals and objects, to help us understand how children talk about quantities.

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Pain-related Stigma and Stress in Youth with Chronic Pain

Help researchers learn more about the experience of youth with chronic pain. Interested participants will be connected with a parent/caregiver survey to begin followed by several surveys to be completed by their child/adolescent (parent/caregiver can be present or not).

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Kire mutat a fiú?

A tanulmányozás során gyermeke látni fog néhány képet két karakter kölcsönhatásáról. Aztán feltesznek nekik egy kérdést.

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Linking speech sounds to images

In this scheduled video chat your baby will look at colorful shapes and listen to a speaker labeling them. We want to understand how the relationship between images and sounds affect a baby's language learning.

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Help Lucy learn her words!

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child see some pictures and watch a short video of a character labelling everyday objects, and your child's reactions will help us understand how children use language to understand the world around them.

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Let's learn how to dax!

How does under-representation contribute to children's self image? In this study, your child will learn a new activity and try out for a special club. Your participation will help us learn how representation shapes children's gender stereotypes and self-perception in elite groups.

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Kids' Thinking About Different Geographic Places

Your child will read some stories about different geographic places (rural, urban, suburban) and answer some questions about the people who live in those places and the different resources those places have. You will also answer some questions about your child and different geographic areas.

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How are they feeling?

In this study, we look at how you discuss other people's feelings with your family. You, your baby, and another adult in your family will view pictures of children displaying various emotions. You’ll be asked to talk about the feelings of the children either to your baby or to the other adult.

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Attitudes towards Music

In this study your child will complete a questionnaire about their attitudes towards music.

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Language Beyond the Spectrum

Help us learn how children with autism tell stories and its importance to future language, literacy, and math skills!

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Como crianças brasileiras interpretam palavras concretas e abstratas?

Nesta tarefa, a criança verá duas imagens lado a lado, uma mais concreta e outra mais abstrata, e escutará um áudio. Uma vez, ouvirá uma palavra como "gato", e na outra, "fofo". Observaremos se ela compreende palavras e relações mais abstratas, associando "fofo" a "gato", por exemplo.

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Hi / Salut / Namaste! My parent’s friends are my friends

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch puppets speaking in different languages and an edited video of you, their caregiver, interacting with these puppets, and will answer some questions so we can understand their language-based social preferences.

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Have I heard this word before?

In this study your baby will hear a speech stream consisting of multiple words from a mini made-up language while looking at an image. Afterwards, your baby will see an animation and repeatedly hear a single word form this made-up language. This study helps us understand how babies learn language.

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Super Surprise!

In this short Zoom study with a researcher, your baby will see two surprising events: an object that floats and colorful shapes being sad for their friend's success. We ask if babies are more surprised, or look longer, at one of the events compared to the other.

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Who is doing that?

In this study, your child will watch videos of people performing different actions while hearing a person describe these actions. We will learn about children’s word learning abilities.

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Can you match it?

In this study, you and your child will see 8 trials of a matching tasks where your child will pick which box with shapes is the best match to a target box with different shapes.

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Thinking about Thinking

In a scheduled Zoom call with a researcher, your child will answer questions about how they learn and think about new information. You will also be asked to complete some questionnaires.

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Monster Math!

In this study, your child will add together sets of balls to help the monster win a teddy bear, and we will learn about children's ability to mentally represent large amounts of objects!

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Blue dots, yellow dots!

In this study, your child will learn a new activity and try out for a special club! Your child will answer some questions afterwards. Your participation will help us learn how children reason about what is worth their effort.

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Sharing and connecting

In a scheduled Zoom session with one of our researchers, your baby will watch some short videos of a person sharing food items with others and then reacting positively or negatively to them. How your baby views these videos will help us learn about what they expect about sharing.

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Help us learn the names of new toys!!

In this study that is completed on a computer with headphones, your child will see pictures of toys and choose different people to teach them the names of the toys, and we will learn about who children like to learn from when learning language.

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Thinking About the Past and the Future

This study focuses on how children remember their experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and how they think about their country’s future.

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Naming new ideas

This study looks into babies' ability to learn the names of abstract relations, such as "same" vs. "different."

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Learning about hidden creatures

In the first part of this longitudinal study study (at 14-16 months), we test babies' ability to imagine and name a thing they have never seen. We also measure their memory and attention. When babies are 22-24 months, we repeat the same tests and also teach them new facts about a novel creature.

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Tell Me About It Too!

Babies and toddlers communicate right from the start. How do toddlers choose what to say when they can only say one or two words at a time? We will show your child four short cartoons about ordinary activities (e.g., an animal entering, then leaving) and then ask them to tell you what happened.

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What do you and your partner think about raising a child with autism?

In this study, co-parents of children with autism spectrum disorder will complete a survey examining perspectives (specifically attitudes), social support, and metal health, and we will learn about how parental agreement affects well-being.

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Read a Picture Book with Your Child

In this study, your child will read a picture book with you, watch some videos and answer some questions, and we will learn about how to counter stereotypes.

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Learning About Others!

Help us learn about social decision making! This computer based asynchronous study includes surveys for parents to fill out about their child's behavior and a three-part online game where kids will be asked to guess the likes and dislikes of other kids.

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Learning words from multiple people

We are interested in how infants learn words when they hear them from multiple people vs. just one person.

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Musical Surprises !

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will look at pictures of an oven, a cat carrier, and listen to music. From this, we will learn about children's level of surprise after hearing certain musical notes.

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Babies' reactions to unfamiliar foods

This study includes two scheduled video calls with a researcher. In each one, you will feed your baby/toddler a food that they have not eaten before.

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Do Babies Think Nice People are also Fair?

In this study, your baby will see videos of animated shapes, and we will learn about how babies understand morality.

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Storytelling in Spanish and English

This is actually a study for mothers to participate in with their babies! You will look at pictures and record yourself telling stories about them to your baby, using both Spanish and English.

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Emotions in Adolescents' Everyday Life

Caregivers and teens begin with a 1 hour Zoom session. Teens answer questionnaires about daily life and then complete a task rating emotional images. After, teens complete 5-minute image tasks alone for 13 days. Teens complete the same questionnaires after the daily tasks and one week later.

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How Do Toddlers Learn New Accents?

In this study, your child will watch a short video with familiar objects and listen to familiarly and unfamiliarly accented speech, and we will gain an understanding of how children learn new accents.

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Cue the Music! (Chinese)

In this study, your baby will first be enjoying short clips of women singing a tune to them (and hopefully you'll enjoy it as well!) in English, Cantonese, or Mandarin.

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Will they get along?

Your baby will be shown videos of two people talking and then interacting with each other.

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Explanations About the Natural World

In a Zoom study, your child will see an informant answer questions about natural objects in a particular way and will answer some questions on their own. We will learn about how children respond to particular kinds of explanations.

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Do Babies Link Emotions with Fairness?

In this study, your baby will see videos of someone sharing cookies with two other people that make positive or negative facial expressions. We are interested in how babies integrate emotions into their understanding of fairness.

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Journey to the GARDEN Library 3 (Finale!)

You've found the last two map pieces! Journey with Fen and find the GARDEN Library. This is the last of three "Travel Montage" videos that show your child their progress in completing the first eight GARDEN studies and the conclusion to the story!

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What makes someone rich or poor?

In this scheduled zoom call, your child will be asked to answer questions about what they think about characters who are rich versus poor.

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Child Memory Study

In this study, you and your child will join two video chats on separate days. In the first, you'll discuss past events with a researcher. In the second, your child will talk to the researcher, allowing us to explore what they recall from events that were discussed in the first session.

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How Social Factors Affect Children’s Motivation

Your child will hear about two groups of children differing in gender and race/ethnicity who chose between two activities. They’ll be asked about the kids’ choices and their own preferences for the activities to learn about how social factors affect children’s motivation to play different games.

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What's hiding in the box?

What's hiding in the box? We either show or only describe three objects (animals, fruits, etc.) that are placed in the box and then ask the baby to guess what the fourth object might be.

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Fun with Fractions!

In this study, your child will help a character match numbers to pictures and discuss pictures with you.

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Do robots and people have feelings?

In this study, you will join a Zoom call with a researcher! Your child will listen to short stories and answer questions. Together we will learn about how young children attribute feelings to others.

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Minds in Motion

Your baby will watch objects move at varying speeds and later get covered by a wall. This will help us learn how babies think about moving objects: Do babies make predictions about motion trajectories and how do they think about moving objects when they can no longer see them?

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Thinking About "What-If"

In this study, your child will watch animated stories and play fun thinking games to help us learn how kids reason about events and imagine what could have been.

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Learning from Teachers Who Admit Mistakes

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch short videos showing teachers who make mistakes—some admit them, others do not. We will ask short questions to understand how children decide who to learn from or ask for help based on how teachers respond to their mistakes.

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Conversations with Ziggy!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch videos featuring an alien named Ziggy and answer some questions, and we will learn about children's ability to detect differences in tone.

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Game Boxes!

In this study, your child will play with multiple games, and will rate how much they like each game.

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Who knows what?

In this online study, your child will hear brief stories and play an engaging communication game, allowing us to learn more about children’s knowledge of grammar and understanding of others' minds. Some will be invited for a follow-up.

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Let's learn some alien words!

During the zoom session with a researcher, your child will be introduced to friendly aliens learning our language. Your child will help them learn new words to describe the way the aliens look. You child will listen, watch short videos, and choose between images!

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Help Our Friends Find What They're Looking For!

In this study, your child will meet three characters that will show them pictures with some familiar and unfamiliar labels. We will ask your child to point to the picture and for the parent to select their choice so we can see how children learn new words.

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Happiness: A survey for parents

In this study that doesn't require your baby to be present, you will rate statements about your family, such as how often your baby is "excited" or "laughing" to help us learn about babies' emotions.

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Puppets Working Together

During this study, your child will watch videos of cute puppets trying to build some towers together or alone.

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Para quem o menino está apontando?

Seu filho ou filha verá fotos de personagens de desenhos animados interagindo entre si e aprenderemos sobre a interpretação que as crianças fazem dessas interações.

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How are these people feeling?

This study involves 5 scheduled sessions over the year, each session 2 months apart. Each session During each session, your child will be asked questions about how they have been feeling and thinking recently, and then they will answer some questions about how other people are feeling.

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Do robots have morals?

This is a Zoom study! Parents will book a date/time to join the researcher on Zoom. Help us learn whether children attribute morals to robots, like they do people. In this study, your child will hear stories about a robot or human character, then they will be asked what the character should do

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Accentuating Attitudes on Accent

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your baby will look at pictures of talking bears, and we will learn how babies interpret different accents.

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How many languages do bilingual babies expect others to speak?

In this study, your child will see a speaker from either a familiar race or an unfamiliar race. They will then hear them speak different stories in English and Spanish. We are looking at how many languages toddlers expect others to speak!

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Interacting with Different Types of Students

Your child will read about kids with disabilities and get to make decisions about interacting with these kids. We will tell them about the disabilities and ask them what they think and know about them. We will also ask you about your experiences with disabilities.

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Thinking about Thinking

In this study, your child will watch a video of some characters called Teebus. In the video, the Teebus will learn some information. Your child will be asked some questions about them, and we will learn about how children think about gaining knowledge.

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Do babies pay attention to ratios?

Your baby will look at pictures of orange and blue shapes.

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Children's Word Learning Strategies

Which strategy is the most effective to learn words in a second language? To help us answer this question, please join us for a scheduled 30-minute Google Meets call where your child will learn basic words in Spanish and play word games.

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Do Babies See Helping as Kindness or Friendship?

In a live video call with a researcher, your baby will watch short videos in which two pairs of animated characters help each other. We will monitor your baby’s looking time to each event to see if they expect the helper to continue being helpful to the same individual in future interactions.

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Science Learning & Curiosity

Help us learn more about curiosity and science learning through a zoom session with a researcher!

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Children’s experiences with AD(H)D medication

This study is for children who take AD(H)D medication such as Ritalin or Concerta. Your child will fill out questions about their experiences after starting their medication.

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Feminist Parenting of Young Children

Feminist parents will fill out an online survey about teaching their child about gender. Some participants will be mailed a book to read to their child, audio-recording themselves doing so.

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Let's Play Trivia!

In this scheduled study with a researcher, your child will play a trivia game with either you (the parent) or another adult (assigned by the researcher), then you will both complete a questionnaire. ONLY 1 child per family may participate in this study.

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What's counting for babies? 4.0

In this study, your baby will watch different numbers of toys being pointed at and labeled in different ways (such as "one, two, three" or "two, three, one").

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Children's opinions about new people

In this video call with a researcher, your child will see photos of a group of new children and be asked to express their opinions about them.

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Who do I see?

In this study, your baby will watch a short video filled with faces of different individuals and hear names for these faces (like "dax").

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Babies' attention to different facial expressions

Your child will watch happy and angry faces of people. We are interested in how children react to different facial expressions and whether they pay more attention to one than the other.

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What is that toy called?

In this Zoom session, you and your child will watch videos of a robot and a human labelling different toys and objects. Next, your child will be shown pictures of a robot and a person and be asked whether something mechanical (gears) or something biological (a heart) belongs inside.

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Science Story Detectives

Can children be taught about scientific concepts effectively through a storybook intervention? In this study, your child will hear a storybook about a scientific concept (either contagion or evolution) and answer questions about what your child learned!

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Patrones de aprendizaje de bebés

¡Este estudio se realizará en una videollamada, directamente con una investigadora! Estudiamos qué patrones pueden aprender los bebés de su ambiente.

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How Many Birds Do You See?

In this study, you and your child will read an online picture book about numbers together. Help us learn about children's early number experiences!

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Children’s beliefs about adults and their jobs

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will look at some pictures and hear descriptions of different jobs and select how much adults feel like they fit in with those jobs.

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Words in Space

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch short 3D animated videos of objects being placed in different ways and choose which of two new videos is most similar. We are studying how children use language to group and understand spatial scenes.

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Power and social relationships

In this study, your child will watch short pre-recorded videos featuring cute characters engaging in novel actions such as ‘daxing,’ and we’ll learn how children understand power and social relationships.

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Facing A New Discovery!

In this study for babies who belong to a racial or ethnic minority within the US, your baby will see pictures of women’s faces of different races, and we will see how your baby attends to the faces.

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Autistic Children Learning About Others! Girls Encouraged to Participate!

Help us learn about social decision making and autism spectrum disorder! This computer based asynchronous study includes surveys for parents to fill out about their child's behavior and a three-part online game where kids will be asked to guess the likes and dislikes of other kids.

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Infant's Perception of Humor

In this study, your baby will be watching several short video clips.

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Explain if you can!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will hear stories about characters with different experiences, then answer questions about what these characters might be thinking and why certain things happened in the stories. This helps us learn about perspective-taking in communication.

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Journey to the GARDEN Library 1

You've found the first 3 map pieces! Journey with Fen and get a little bit closer to finding the GARDEN Library. This is the first of three "Travel Montage" videos that show your child their progress in completing the first eight GARDEN studies.

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Star Machines

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will take the role of an elf working at a star factory. They will be introduced to machines that make different stars, and will be asked to solve different problems using the machines. We will learn about children's learning preferences.

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Animals Hide and Seek!

In this study, your baby will watch a short video filled with cute, stuffed animals and hear names for these animals (like "dax").

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Thinking about preferences and rules

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch several short videos with us involving a character's thoughts, and answer questions about the videos. This will help us understand how children think about mental states in the context of imaginary events.

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GARDEN Library Grand Opening 2 (Finale)!

For families who have completed the first eight Project GARDEN studies and are ready to start participating in GARDEN Phase 2. This is a short video introducing the new Phase 2 story with Fen! Fen needs your child's help getting the library ready for visitors!

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Word Search and Reading

In this study, your child will play a modified word search game where they look for a single word hidden in a grid of letters. We will also ask them to read some made-up and real words, which will help us learn how kids recognize written words under different conditions.

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The Listening Treasure Hunt

Help us understand how knowledge affects perception during childhood: Your child will answer questions about recordings of simple sentences to reveal parts of the pirate's treasure map and get closer to finding the treasure!

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FaceLook

Your child will view pictures of adult women’s faces and children's faces belonging to the same race and other race.

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Probabilistic Learning Across Development: What Will Wiggle Do Next?

In this study, your child will play a game where they guess what Wiggle the friendly alien will do next!

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What is a good explanation?

Help us learn about explanations in a live video call with a researcher, in a one session study!

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Moral Imagination and Kid's Pretend Play

In this asynchronous study, your child will be asked about different games they would like to play, and we will learn about children's moral judgements and imagination through playing pretend.

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Which object am I talking about?

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your baby will look at a person expressing a preference for one of two toys, and we will be learning how this preference influences which toy babies look at.

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Gesture and Learning

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will help us learn how children learn new concepts.

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Look at the Dots!

In this study, your child will see dots appear over time with playful background music. We want to know what babies like to look at, and to see if they look longer at dot sequences that look different than what they might expect!

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What's counting for babies? 3.0

In this study, your baby will watch different numbers of toys being pointed at and labeled in different ways (such as "one, two, three" or "this, this, this").

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GARDEN Library Grand Opening 1!

For families who have completed the first eight Project GARDEN studies and are ready to start participating in GARDEN Phase 2. This is a short video introducing the new Phase 2 story with Fen! Fen needs your child's help getting the library ready for visitors!

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What's in a Hug?

In this study, your toddler will watch a video of friendly characters who hug or dance together. We will measure how your toddler pays attention to this video.

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What Do Babies Know About Sand?

During a scheduled video call with a researcher, your baby will watch videos of different materials (sand or a block) being shaken in a glass and then poured onto the floor or the stairs. To understand what your baby is thinking, we will measure how long they look at the events.

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Journey to the GARDEN Library 2

You've found the next 2 map pieces! Journey with Fen and get a little bit closer to finding the GARDEN Library. This is the second of three "Travel Montage" videos that show your child their progress in completing the first eight GARDEN studies.

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Are percentages hard? Help make them easier!

In this study, your child will first take a short test on percentages. Then, they will watch two short videos about percentages. After that, they will take the same test again to see if they learned more. All tasks must be done on a computer, not a phone or tablet. Pencil and paper required.

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Il tu@ piccol@ sa a cosa stai pensando?

In questo studio il tu@ bambin@ guarderà alcuni video che mostrano una persona con una credenza 'vera' o una 'falsa' credenza riguardo a una situazione per un paio di minuti.

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Once upon a Bedtime Story!

In this study, caregivers will answer questions about their typical routines with their child(ren), and we will learn how about toddlers' different learning environments.

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Abstraction for babies

This study looks into babies' ability to learn the names of abstract relations, such as "same" vs. "different."

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Let's build a zoo!

In this study, your child will build a zoo by participating in a series of fun activities, including a memory game and a quantity guessing game.

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Can You See It?

In this looking times study, your baby will see a partly covered picture (ex: a dog) next to a scrambled version of the picture. We want to know if babies can better tell the difference between the partial picture and the scramble if there is a matching speech sound added (ex: “Look, at dog!”)

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Power and social relationship

In this study, your child will hear short stories for about 20-25 minutes. Help us learn about what children think about power in social relationships!

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Let's Play With Cards!

In this study, your child will play with two different sets of cards, experience two different game outcomes, and we will learn about how young learners respond to surprising outcomes in such game contexts.

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Infants' Understanding of Social Responsiveness

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will watch animated characters responding to other characters' emotions, and we will learn about how infants think about comforting and social responsiveness.

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Bonding: A survey for parents

You will see statements about your child and your relationship with your child. You will rate how much you agree with each statement on a scale from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree." We will learn how to improve ways of measuring how parents and children bond.

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Household Unbalance and Gender Stereotypes

In this scheduled zoom call, your child will be answering questions about the amount of work that moms and dads do inside and outside of the house.

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How Multiracial Kids and Parents Process Faces

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, you and your child will play interactive games related to faces. We will learn how experiences between Multiracial children and their parents shape their memory for faces and what they think about them.

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