Schug, Shusterman, Barth, & Patalano Publication

A paper by former post-doc and current Visiting Assistant Professor, Mariah Schug, Anna Shusterman, Hilary Barth, and Associate Professor Andrea Patalano, “Minimal-group membership influences children’s responses to novel experience with group members”, was published in Developmental Science in January 2013. You can download the original publication as a PDF.

Summer ’12 at the Labs

This summer, the Labs worked on a variety of ongoing and new research projects. Our undergraduate research assistants presented their projects at the annual campus-wide Hughes Summer Program Poster Session: Evaluating spatial bias in preschool-aged children – Jillian Roberts & Madeline Kidd (Advisor: Hilary Barth) Implementing and comparing models of estimation bias in “R” – … Read more

Update: The Power of Play

This year, we teamed up with Mattel to investigate the developmental benefits of playing with toys. We recently completed testing for the Power of Play project and want to thank all of the local families who participated! Please check out our Power Of Play Newsletter for more information about this study.

Labs Present at Wes Psychology Research Poster Session

Members of both labs presented at this year’s Psychology Department Research Poster session at Wesleyan. Posters covered many of the Labs’ ongoing and completed projects. Individual differences in probability weighting: Evidence from a gambling task – Jason Saltiel & Lily Kaplan (Advisors: Andrea Patalano & Hilary Barth) How feedback improves children’s numerical estimation – Shipra … Read more

Cromwell Math Night

Blue Lab members helped staff and run the 1st Annual Preschool Math Night in Cromwell, CT at the Edna C. Stevens School. Preschool children and their families had a chance to play fun, math-related games that were designed and created by Angela Lo, Andrew Ribner, Simoneil Sarbh, Julia Vermeulen, and other students from Dr. Shusterman’s … Read more

The Labs Present at the Cognitive Development Society Conference

Members of the Blue and Yellow Labs attended the 2011 Cognitive Development Society Conference in Philadelphia. Many Lab Alumnae were also in attendance, including Jess Sullivan, Julia Leonard, Dominic Gibson, Christian Hoyos, and Kyle MacDonald. We presented multiple posters about our current research projects: Drawing comparisons across children’s performance on numerical and proportion estimation tasks … Read more

Introducing: The Power of Play

The Cognitive Development Labs are teaming up with Mattel, one of the largest toy companies in the world, for the Power of Play Project. This study with 3 & 4 year-olds investigates how playing with toys contributes to development. During the 2011-2012 academic year, the labs will be enrolling families to participate in the study. … Read more