Who is this animal?

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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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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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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Baby Learning Patterns

This study will take place on a video call, live with a researcher! We study what patterns babies can learn from their environments.

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Which Way Will Your Baby Go?

How do young children learn to navigate their visual world? Watch short videos of colorful virtual environments designed to test their understanding of how it is possible to move through a space. For example, the difference between an open doorway versus a painting on the wall.

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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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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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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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Social Influence and Popularity

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will watch animated characters imitating some characters but not others, and we will learn about how infants respond to social influence.

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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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The world "scene" through your baby's eyes

How do babies use vision to understand complex places? In this study your child will watch short colourful videos designed to test their perception of visual scenes.

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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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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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RISE Study for SPARK

In this study, your baby will see a series of social and nonsocial videos. We will record your baby watching these videos so we can measure how long they look at the different videos.

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Who's Who?

This study will take place on a video call, with a live researcher. We're interested in how babies learn about new people.

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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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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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What Babies Learn From Their Caregivers

This study will take place on a video call, with a live researcher. We're interested in how babies understand the goals of their caregivers.

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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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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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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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Baby's Views of Emotional Cues

This is a longitudinal study for mothers and babies to complete when they are 7- and 12-months old. In both sessions, your baby will look at pairs of faces showing different emotions and you will complete brief questionnaires about your mood and your baby's caregiving network.

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