Do babies pay attention to ratios?

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

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Is that logical?

During this study, your child will hear some fictional stories about different animals and will be asked what they think!

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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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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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How are these aliens different?

During the zoom session with a researcher, your child will be introduced to a friendly alien who would like to help you learn some of his words. Your child will hear the alien describe how his friends look using new words, then they will choose between two sets of images based on what they heard!

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Thinking About People

In this Project GARDEN study, your child will be asked questions about a fictional group.

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Picture book for better word learning - Version 2

In this study, babies will first watch a video of an experimenter pointing to colorful objects and naming them, including one that is hidden. This study is only for families who have NOT previously completed the original "Picture book for better word learning" study.

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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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Can You Find Another?

This study will take place on a video call, live with a researcher!

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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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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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What Are Friends For?

In this scheduled video call, your child will watch videos of animated characters, and a live researcher will ask your child questions about friendship.

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What would have happened if...?

In this Project GARDEN study, your child can play five quick games about cool people, things, and stories!

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Understanding Helping Behaviors

How do children (ages 3 – 5) think about helpful behaviors and those who do not help?

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Bouncing Balls

Your child will see two balls bouncing on a screen and hear a gentle impact sound!

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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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Probability Updating

In this study, your baby will watch movies with sounds and a character sorting different candies to investigate babies’ attention to probability when making judgements.

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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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Whose Cookies?

In this study, your child will play a guessing game with some friends, helping them figure out which plate has just the right amount of cookies.

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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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What are they thinking?

In this Project GARDEN study, your child will learn what new people like or think, and will predict how people will behave based on their desires or beliefs.

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Who is more helpful on average?

In this study, we’re looking to study whether babies are sensitive to how helpful someone is on average.

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Perceptions of Storytime

We are studying children’s perceptions of others during shared book reading.

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Train to be a Scientist

We are seeking participants ages 33 (2y 9m) to 40 (3y 4m) months for a study on how children learn and think about science over Zoom. This study has 4 sessions plus a screening call. The study must be done using a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet PC with a 10.2-inch screen or bigger.

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Children's understanding of different pronouns

We are looking for children aged 5 to 6 and 8 to 9 to participate in an online study. Children will participate in two sessions two days apart and each will take no longer than 15 minutes. Once complete, we will give your child a £5 National Book Token Voucher and a certificate!

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Which Shape Doesn't Belong?

In this Project GARDEN study, your child will see a variety of different shapes and will then be asked to find the 'odd' one out.

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What's Their Goal?

Do babies think differently about other language speakers and their goals? Join us to watch videos of people reaching for fun objects!

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Can You Find the Silly Words?

How do toddlers and preschoolers (aged 30-40 months) learn new words?

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Let's switch things up!

In this Project GARDEN study, your child will play matching, pointing, and repetition games that challenge their executive functions.

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Picture book for better word learning

In this study, babies will first watch a video of an experimenter pointing to colorful objects and naming them, including one that is hidden.

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Introduction to Project GARDEN!

5-minute Introduction video to Project GARDEN, a series of 8 studies for 3- ,4- , 5- , and 6-year-old children and their caregivers. This video will overview how the project works and answer frequently asked questions. You must complete this before the first GARDEN study.

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How do they feel?

Your child will hear short stories about people experiencing an event, and will be asked to predict how the people feel. For example, they will hear a story about a girl wanting a snack. They will be asked, "How does Kate feel?" and they can respond using the happy face scale provided.

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How am I feeling?

In this study, we are looking at how caregivers and their babies interact.

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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 "dax, dax, dax").

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Let's learn new words! ¡Aprendamos nuevas palabras!

In this study, your child will see two new objects and hear two labels for each of these objects: each object will have a name in English and another in Spanish. We want to see how children learn new names for objects!

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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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Learning about new objects

A 15-20 minute interactive game where your child will learn about some new kinds of tools, and make some of those tools. After completing video consent and assent on this website, you will be directed to another website with an interactive game for your child.

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Scene and Heard!

In this study, your child will watch several videos of one kind of scene (like a room with a particular shape) labeled with a made-up word.

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Magic Markers

This study will take place on a video call, live with a researcher!

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Which wub knows how to make the toy go?

Your child will view friendly creatures (wubs) interact with a cool toy, and they will be asked which one knows how to make it go.

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Face the Faces!

Help us learn about how babies pay attention to faces of their own race and other races!

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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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Scene and Heard

This study will take place on a video call, live with a researcher!

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"What is that?": Learning about judgments

Children readily form impressions of other people, which affects who they trust, who they turn to with their questions, and who they perceive as knowledgeable. Children (6 - 10 years) who participate in this study will listen to characters answer questions about a picture or a word, and then will...

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Guess What Happens Next

In this study, your child will watch a video of a person interacting with an AI voice assistant or another person and then guess what happens next. They will also listen to a story about snack time in a classroom and again guess what happens next. It will take about 15-20 minutes.

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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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People, Places, and Things!

In this 5-minute study, we are interested in whether babies have preferences for looking at certain objects compared to others.

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Sharing Stories about Emotional Memories

We are recruiting pairs of parents and adolescent (13-18 years) children for a research study on how memories are shared within families.

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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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Let's Talk Emotions: Causes & Outcomes!

In this study, your child will be presented with short stories and pictures and answer questions about how the characters are feeling.

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RISE Study

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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Fashion Detectives: How Babies Classify People Through Clothing

Humans advertise their group identity by making their physical appearance distinctive by face painting, by body tattooing, and by their style of dress and ornamentation. We want to know if babies are sensitive to such distinctive, novel styles of dress and ornamentation.

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GARDEN Family Information Survey

In this Project GARDEN study, you (the caregiver) will complete the Family Information Survey to help provide us with a little more information about your family so we can better understand who is a part of Project GARDEN and how family background and context matter in child development.

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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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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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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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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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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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Does a smartphone disrupt play time?

In this study you will be asked to interact with your baby and at certain points during the interaction to carry out some simple tasks on your phone.

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I Spy in the Sea and Sky!

In this study, your baby will look at varying pictures of animals and hear questions about what they see and you will talk about a picture from a book together.

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