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Preschool Number Line Estimation (Ages 3-5 years)
This study’s primary aim is to examine the benchmark influences on children’s number line estimation performance and reveal children's ordinal understanding of numbers. The study will involve three activities for children as well as a short demographic survey for parents. For children, the first activity will entail playing games with a researcher involving pointing out the position of a number on the line. In the second activity, children will play one of the versions of benchmark in the number line game with a researcher. In the third activity, children will do the number line game with a researcher like in the first activity. Children ages 3- to 5-years old are invited to participate in this project.

Prather Lab website: 

Project on Children's Language Learning (Ages 3-6 years)
These studies help us learn about children's development in understanding language and thinking about the world and others. Each session takes about 15 minutes, and your child may be invited to participate in one or several sessions. In a session, a researcher will have some stories or a game setup showing in slides on a laptop or with physical props, and we record each child's answers and choices as, for example, Kermit asks for an explanation because he can't see what's on the other side of this wall, or the researcher asks which box the child wants to open after Olaf gave a clue.

Lidz Lab website: 

Speech Perception and Language Processing (Ages 5-6 years)
This study investigates the ability of children aged 5-11 to identify emotions from vocal stimuli without the aid of facial expressions. The child will be instructed to point to the facial expression a person is making on the computer screen that best fits with the sentence from a speaker that is expressing a specific emotion. The study uses a randomized design with three different order conditions to control for order effects.

Newman Lab website: 

Playful Minds (Ages 3-6 years)
In this project we are looking to understand what parents and their preschool-aged children do during their everyday play at home. The study involves 1 take-home activity where you will play with toys with your child, 1 at-school session with a researcher and your child where they will play games and complete tasks, and 1 online questionnaire. Each session and the survey will last 20-30 minutes.

Ramani Lab website: 
 

A Picnic Together (Ages 4-6 years)
This study aims to examine parent-child communication during informal learning activities. For this study, parents will come to the center and play for 16 minutes with their child. The first half of this time they will play with some materials and the rest of the time with a book that the experimenter will provide. After this interaction, parents will complete a brief 10 min survey that collects demographics and learning practices at home. Finally, the experimenter will come on a different day to do three activities with the child related to words, numbers and cognitive functions. Children 4-6 are welcome to participate in this study.

Ramani Lab website: