Let's Listen to a New Language!

In this scheduled Zoom chat with a researcher, your baby will listen to a 3 minute story in German. Then, they will see images of object while listening to German. We will measure their looking behavior to see if the German speech helps them to form an object category.

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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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Measuring Babies’ Surprise with Simultaneous Video Presentation

Your baby will watch short videos of simple events with objects and little characters. Sometimes two videos will play side by side, and we’ll see which one your baby prefers to look at. This study helps us test a new way to measure babies’ interest in different kinds of events.

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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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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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How many hidden toys can babies remember?

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") before being hidden behind a box. We are interested how babies' memory of hidden objects responds to these differences.

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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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Who Said That?

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your baby will listen to voice recordings and look at pairs of faces, and we will learn whether babies recognize dominance in faces and voices.

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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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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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Do the sights match the sounds?

Your baby will first watch short videos with either matched or mismatched audio. Then, you will complete surveys on your baby’s personality and family health history. This may take up to 40 minutes. We will learn about individual differences in babies’ attention for audiovisual sensory information.

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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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Record a video with your baby during mealtime!

In this study, you will record a video of a typical mealtime (of solid foods) with your baby. This study will help us understand the relation between eating behaviors and developmental factors.

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Faces, Familiarity, and Baby’s Personality!

In this study, your child will see pictures of women’s faces of different races (5 minutes), and we will measure how they attend to the faces. You will then complete questionnaires about your child's caregiving network and typical patterns of behavior (25 minutes).

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Cute Shapes Working Together

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

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Which dots match the sound?

Your baby will watch moving dots on a screen while listening to sounds that seem to go up or down in pitch. We are interested in how babies connect sight and sounds. Specifically, we are investigating whether babies associate upward motion with rising sounds and downward motion with falling sounds.

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Will they be friends?

This scheduled video call with a researcher, your baby will be shown short videos of two people talking and then interacting with each other.

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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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How do babies learn about their world?

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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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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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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Which characters make the machine go?

This study will take place on a video call, with a live researcher. We’re interested in how babies think about groups and how group members act together.

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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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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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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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Infant's Perception of Humor

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

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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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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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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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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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Listen for the Sound Switch!

In this study, your baby will listen to repeated and changing made-up words while looking at simple animations on the screen, and we will learn how babies notice changes in speech sounds.

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Baby's First Plant

Your baby will watch short videos showing a plant and either a doll or a ball. There are no right or wrong responses. It gives us insight into how infants make sense of the world around them, which is vital for their interaction with their environment and contributes to their learning and growth.

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Your Baby's Response to Faces and Speech

Babies will view several short audio and video clips of mothers talking to the camera.

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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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How do babies learn about their world? Baby Siblings

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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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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