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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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Let your baby show you the way!

How do young children learn to navigate their visual world? Watch short videos of colorful environments designed to test their understanding of how it is possible to move through a space.

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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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Tick-Tock, Baby Clock

Help us learn how babies use time to make sense of the world! In this live Zoom study, your baby will watch short videos of water being poured into a vase while we explore how they use timing cues to predict what happens next.

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Can babies guess the next dance move?

Your baby will watch short videos of groups of animated characters dancing! We are interested to see if infants can predict social groups' next dance moves.

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Listen To My Song!

In this study that your child will complete in your lap or a high chair, your baby will listen to people singing popular children’s songs, and we will learn more about babies’ musical preferences.

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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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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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Do, Re, Remember!

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your baby will listen to instruments that sound alike and instruments that sound different while we track their eye movements so we can learn about how babies remember different sounds.

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Re-engagement Study for Puppies

This study is for you (the adult) and your dog! For about 9 months (starting at 3 or 4 months old, and until 12 months), you will video record yourselves as you complete a simple procedure and then share your video with our research team. This will help us learn about how dogs cooperate with people.

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Fashion Detectives: How Babies Use Clothing as a Social Signal

Babies are sensitive to novel and distinct styles of dress. In this study, we ask whether babies expect people who wear the same costume style to share other meaningful characteristics, such as the language they speak.

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Communication during infant and parent play

In this scheduled live Zoom with a researcher, you and your baby will play together while we study how babies learn from back-and-forth interactions. Help us learn how early communication grows through everyday moments! You need to have an older child to participate.

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Do you like the person you can predict?

Help us learn about babies’ preferences for people! In this live Zoom study, your baby will watch short videos of two people showing liking or disliking toward an object. We aim to study whether babies prefer someone who consistently likes or dislikes something, or someone who alternates.

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Who shares my sweet tooth?

This study will take place on a video call, live with a researcher! In this Zoom-based study, your baby will watch videos of people eating food and reacting to it. Baby's looking time data will tell us how and whether they expect social groups to share preferences.

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Peek & Seek!

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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How Babies Learn from What They See AND Hear at the Same Time

This study involves a scheduled 45-minute video chat session with a researcher. During the session, your baby will watch short videos of moving objects or people speaking, and we will explore how babies learn from what they see and hear.

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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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Commitment Study for Adult Dogs

This study is for you (adult/parent) and your dog! In this study, you will video record yourselves as you complete a procedure on 4 different days and then share your videos with our research team. This will help us learn about whether dogs understand commitments like humans do.

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See The Dots

This study takes place over a Zoom video call. During the session, your child will watch short on-screen videos with sound, including brief dot displays and pictures.

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Babies' Relationships with Their Caregivers

In this live study with a researcher on Zoom, your baby will sit on your lap and watch videos of you looking at toys, and we will learn about babies’ understanding of the goals of their parents and caregivers.

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Baby Friends & Feelings

In this short Zoom study with a researcher, your baby will see colorful shapes responding happily or sadly towards each other's success. We ask if babies think the shapes are friends or rivals based on their previous emotional responses.

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Who speaks Spanish and English around your family?

In this study, you will receive brief text check-ins throughout two days, scheduled at your convenience. These check-ins ask who is with your child and what languages they hear, helping us learn how bilingual babies hear Spanish and English in everyday situations.

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Bumping Shapes

Bumping or not bumping... In a scheduled Zoom session, your baby will watch colorful shapes bump into gray squares — sometimes the bump makes the square move, and sometimes it doesn’t! We’re excited to learn how babies understand these cause-and-effect events.

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Infants' expectations of people's and object's movements

Help us learn about infants expectations regarding the cause of people and objects' movement in a live video call with a researcher!

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Who's a Better Friend?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your baby will look at videos of puppets interacting with one another. This will help us learn about how babies view social interactions and relationships.

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Toy Showing Study for Adult Dogs

This study is for two adults and your dog you both live with! In this study, you will video record yourselves as you complete a procedure on 4 different days and then share your videos with our research team. This will help us learn about how dogs communicate with people.

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How babies think about surprising objects

In this scheduled video call, your baby will watch a series of short videos showing some toys performing magical or normal actions. We are interested in how your baby reacts to the toys after observing the events!

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Symbol Learning

This study investigates whether babies can learn different rules about different symbols and shapes. Your baby will watch movies teaching them these rules.

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Do babies have special expectations about human beings?

In this scheduled video call, your baby will watch a series of short videos showing either a number of identical or different people entering a room one by one, or a number of identical or different toys placed on a table one by one. We are interested in how your baby reacts to these videos.

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Now you see it! Now you don't!

In this scheduled Zoom chat with a researcher, your baby will look at videos of cute toys, hear new names for them, and see one of the toys hidden inside a box and then retrieved. We will learn whether naming the toys will help babies remember the toys when they are hidden.

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