labdevelopingmind

Is your baby a tiny scientist? 👶💭 Our research assistant Brooke will guide you through what it's like to participate in a study at the LDM and contribute to the future of education and learning! We're welcoming babies as young as 3 months old! youtu.be/Hn1H8uAmKdI

Come join the LDM team for a day of fun math activities for all ages at the NYC Math Festival hosted by MoMath! 🎉 This is a free, rain-or-shine event open to the general public at Fosun Plaza, 10am-4pm ET. For more information: momath.org/nyc-math-festi…

A big congratulations to LDM grad student, Shannon, who will be spending July at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute in St Andrews, Scotland! The program brings together scholars from a range of backgrounds to tackle questions about intelligence, mind and cognition.

This month, we said goodbye to our postdoc, Dr. Yi Lin, who has been a massive part of the LDM team for the past 5 years (!!) Thank you, Yi, for your wisdom, patience and kindness. You have been such a huge part of the team and we would not be where we are now without you. 💜🧋

We are very excited to have our summer research assistants back in the lab this! Over the past month, they have been training to help support studies, coding looking time and contacting families about our new studies. We look forward to another awesome summer! 🌞

Calling all little scientists: We have a new online study, "Is This One?" In this 20-minute study, hosted on Zoom, we are interested in how 22-26 month old babies learn the names for things in the world around them! Please visit labdevelopingmind.com/participate to participate!💻

Congratulations to our RAs who presented today at the NYU Undergraduate Research Conference! We are so proud of your hard work! 🎉 Congratulations also to Nalinda, for the best presentation in her panel, and Joyce and Anabel for the best poster in their group! 🏆

The LDM is excited to announce that grad student, Mohit Mukherji, has had both a paper and a talk accepted for this year's meeting of the Cognitive Science Society! Mohit will be speaking about his PhD work on the different biases that shape adult word extension.

Last Friday, 3/14, we celebrated our love for math and learning with, of course—pie! Our research explores how children understand geometry, shapes, patterns and spaces, all of which are key to mathematic reasoning. What better way to honor π than with some delicious treats?

Next up in our "Research Assistant Spotlight Series", we have Keyin! Keyin is a Senior, majoring in psychology and minoring in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. She is particularly interested in the work our lab is doing on how infants navigate social environments!

This Saturday and Sunday, the LDM team will be at the National Museum of Mathematics from 10 am-5 pm! MoMath will also be offering free admission to the museum on Sunday from 10am-1pm! We will have games for 3, 5, and 6-year-old child scientists. We hope to see you there! 👏🧠

On this day of love and appreciation, we would like to express our gratitude for our amazing and supportive LDM community of families and researchers! We hope everyone has a fun and festive Valentine's Day 💌

First up in our "Research Assistant Spotlight Series" , we have Kaylee! Kaylee is a Freshman double majoring in Applied Psychology and Education. Kaylee is interested in learning how we can use cognition research to improve educational resources for underrepresented learners.

📰New paper published!📢 Graduate student, Shannon Yasuda, has a new paper out now in 'Infancy'! The paper explores intuitions that babies have about the social and object directed goals of agents who imitate one another! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/infa.7…

We are very excited to have our research assistants back in the lab for the spring semester! Over the last few days, they have been busy working on their honors theses, helping connect with new families, and meeting with our grad students and postdoc to plan their research 🌸🌷

Looking for some winter break activities for your child? Our lab is excited to welcome your family for some fun, in-person activities! We currently have activities for 3, 5 and 6 year olds scientists. Find out more here! labdevelopingmind.com/participate

This week, the LDM celebrated the end of the fall semester with delicious cake pops to go along with an inspiring lab meeting by our PI, Dr. Moira Dillon! As the semester ends, we want to thank our wonderful RAs for their hard work and wish them good luck on their finals! 📝🤓

Congratulations to LDM research assistants, Riya and Nalinda, who have been named two of the Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund's research scholars! They have been recognized for the strength and impact of their Honors Projects and we are honored to have them in the lab.

The LDM team would like to wish everyone a relaxing Thanksgiving Recess! Here at the LDM, we are thankful for our hard-working research assistants and amazing participating families 🥧🍁🦃

Today, Dr. Yi Lin will be presenting at the Psychonomic Society's 65th Annual Meeting! Stop by to hear about her research being done on the role that everyday intuitions about the geometry of navigation and object recognition play in the development of abstract geometry 🗺️📚

Come check out the LDM workspace! This is the Project Room where our research assistants do incredible work; from reaching out to families, designing stimuli and coding data! As you can see, we love snails! See how many you can spot 🔎 🐌