Living Laboratory News in the Wesleyan Connection

On September 23rd, the Wesleyan Connection (Wesleyan University’s online newsletter) published a blog post about the Cognitive Development Labs’ ongoing collaboration with the Connecticut Science Center. The Cognitive Development Labs recently received a $3000 stipend from the National Living Laboratory Initiative to support this collaboration. You can read the blog post here.   Research Assistant … Read more

Leonard et al. 2014 Publication Inspires Blog Post

On September 15th, Richard Kunert published a post on his blog (Brain’s Idea) citing a study published by Blue Lab’s own Julia Leonard ’11, Talia Berkowitz (Lab Coordinator ’10-’12), and Professor Anna Shusterman. Their research investigated the effects of friendly touch on children’s compliance behavior in a delay-of-gratification task. Current lab member Abby Archibald ’15 … Read more