Where is my Ball?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will be assigned to a group and then listen to a short story, which will help us explore how a child's perception of their group membership plays a role in influencing the understanding of others' minds.

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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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How many of them have bikes?

We invite your child to help us discover how children learn the words for quantities, in a game where the child decides if a puppy has given the right description of some wacky new creatures.

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Abracadabra! What is this now?

Help us understand the development of various visual perceptual abilities in children as they grow up!

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¡Let’s read un cuento!

We’re studying how bilingual children learn words through storybooks! In up to three scheduled video chats, your child will hear bilingual stories, play word and number games, and help us understand how storybooks support language development.

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What did the genie do?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will watch videos about a genie and his animal friends, and we will learn about children's preferred way to talk about multiple entities.

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Sarah is a rocket!

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will play a game with Lala and Didi, two "silly" puppets. Lala and Didi will each say a creative statement about the researcher's friends, shown in a picture book, and your child will be asked who said it better!

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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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More Food or Better Food?

Help us learn about how children understand social relationships based on sharing in a in a one-time live video call with a researcher!

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Storytime Feelings: How Children Learn Emotion Words

In this study, your child will listen to playful stories and choose how a character feels, and we will learn how young children understand emotion words.

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I see me, I see you: Recognizing emotions in others

This study takes about 90 minutes total, half for a survey you complete and half for a scheduled video chat with you, your child and a researcher. We will learn about how preschoolers with autism understand emotion as they see them on other people’s faces and what tools can help their understanding.

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Road Trip with Friends! 3.0

In this study, your child will go on a virtual road trip and help some friends along the way! This is a new version of "Road Trip with Friends" - if eligible, your child can participate even if you've done a previous version of this study!

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Deciding which proportion is bigger!

In a scheduled zoom call, your child will be asked to compare proportions in the form of different colored shapes (like different kinds of rectangles).

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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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How children think about care and social relationships

In a scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will listen to short stories about novel characters who help each other. Based on patterns of helping, we will ask your child to make guesses about the characters’ relationship.

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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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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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Abracadabra! This is new!

Help us understand the development of various visual perceptual abilities in children as they grow up!

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Who's the Helper?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will hear stories about animated characters who engage in friendly social actions (hugging) and guess who is the helper (who gives food, comforts, or makes someone laugh) based on the relationships in the story!

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How Kids Make Sense of “What-If” Situations

Your child will take part in a video call with a researcher and complete short picture-based activities. Your child will either play or watch simple events and answer "what-if" questions to help us learn how perspective affects how children think about different outcomes.

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Household Labor and the Future

This study consists of a live video chat and survey and may require a second visit. The study is for you, another co-parent you live with (if applicable), and your child. You and your child will be asked questions about chores, careers, and media your child is exposed to.

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"Hello! vs. Hello??" How autistic children learn prosody

Help us learn about how autistic children use prosody (tone of voice)! In this study, your child will play several short games that involve listening to and saying words or sentences that match pictures. The study takes about 45 minutes and happens during a live video chat with a researcher.

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Aprendiendo Nombres de Juguetes Nuevos

In this study, your child will look at pictures of unfamiliar toy objects and hear them named in English and Spanish while we track their eye movements. You will also be asked to participate in a short structured conversation, via phone call or Zoom, about your child’s language exposure.

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Let’s Draw and Play!

In this scheduled video call, your child will engage in various drawing activities with a researcher. Help us learn how praise influences children’s persistence and challenge-taking behavior!

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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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Silly Monster Stories

Help us figure out what children learn from story books in a scheduled video call with a researcher!

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Lights, Camera, Action Verbs!

In this study, your baby will look at pictures of objects and videos of actions while hearing novel words, and we will learn how your baby understand novel verbs.

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How do families talk about nature?

In this study, you and your child will go on a simulated forest walk and talk about the nature you see! This will help us learn more about how children learn through their experiences in nature.

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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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DonutFest

In this experiment, your child will learn which donuts are "good" and which donuts are "bad" in the DonutFest game, and we will learn how children form attitudes about new information.

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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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How Do Kids With Autism See Faces?

Your child will see two faces on the screen. The top parts of the faces will either be the same or different. Your child will be asked to decide whether the top halves of the faces are the same or different. This study will help us better understand the development of face perception in kids.

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Favorite Fruits!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will learn about aliens liking certain colored fruits, and we will learn about how children form rules.

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Is My Friend Lying?

Help us learn how children interpret lies! In this study, you and your child will be on a Microsoft Teams call with a researcher. Your child will hear some stories in which characters lie, and then tell us what he or she thinks about the situation!

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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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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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Verb Variation

We are seeking 3 and 4-year-old participants! In this study, the child will watch short child-friendly videos and answer questions about what they hear!

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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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What do they believe?

In this study, your child will hear about characters with different beliefs. We will ask your child questions about the characters, such as what else the character might believe.

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Hey, I know what that means!

In this study, your child will interact with a live researcher and a friendly alien named Weepo. Weepo would like to know if your child knows the meaning of some words he has learned. Your child will see some images, then Weepo will describe one, and ask your child to find it.

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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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Is My Friend Happy?

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will listen to some scenarios and answer some questions about what factors influence children’s understanding of happiness, specifically examining how children perceive the impact of social material possessions on happiness.

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Which Way Should We Go?

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, your child will play a short computer game similar to Pac-Man, and we will learn how children set goals and collaborate with others!

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Science Story Detectives

How do children learn to reason about contagious illness? In this study, we will investigate how reasoning about familiar concepts may help children reason about more difficult concepts like contagion.

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The costs of social actions

In this scheduled video chat, a researcher will read to your child about some fictional characters experiencing a conflict. The researcher will ask your child questions to understand what children think about the ups and downs of social relationships.

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Is that possible?

In this scheduled video call with a researcher, children will be asked whether they think some events are possible or not.

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Figuring Out Social Relationships

During this short Zoom study, a researcher will tell your child stories about characters their age who share different things with different people. Based on these patterns of sharing, we will ask your child who they think will comfort the characters when they become upset.

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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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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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"Hello! vs. Hello??" How children learn prosody

Help us learn about how children use prosody (tone of voice)! In this study, your child will play several short games in a 30-minute live session with a researcher. *At this point in the study, only families in which the primary caregiver does not have a bachelor’s or advanced degree are eligible.*

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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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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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Conversations on Household Labor Between Children and Their Parents

This study is for you and your child. In this scheduled Zoom call, you and your child will be asked to discuss two short videos, and your child will then be asked to divide chores between two hypothetical parents.

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Is This One?

In this study, your child will see some videos and hear some new words. We will ask your child whether what they see in new videos can be described using the same new words they just heard. We will discover what aspects of others’ actions children use to learn new words.

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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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Let's Talk with Aliens!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will see aliens talking to each other, then answer questions about how these aliens talked. This helps us learn about how children communicate.

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Lions, tigers, aliens, oh my!

In this scheduled video chat with a researcher, your child will rate and try different games that are described as "fun," "too hard," or "too boring" for their group.

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How does practice make progress?

In this study, your child will watch two friends play a ring toss game together, answer questions, and help us understand how children think about learning from practice!

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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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Judgement of Disagreement

In a scheduled Zoom call with a researcher, your child will engage with conflicting scientific claims, and we will learn about how children perceive empirical disagreement.

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