And congratulations to our lab members who've presented awesome work!

Thank you to everyone who came and asked exciting questions during #CDS2026! We're so happy to have met new and familiar friends!

We're so excited to be attending @cogdevsoc.bsky.social in Montreal! Catch the lab in action in poster sessions, presentations, and symposiums!

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Schedule of speakers for a morning pre-conference workshop at the 2026 meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Attending CDS 2026? Consider joining us at the morning pre-conference workshop on intuitive theories of care and protection in development @cogdevsoc.bsky.social

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Check out one of our grad students, Kiera Parece, and collaborators' work on loopholes, get featured on SciShow!

A full house present in the lab today! 👩🏻‍💻🚸💕

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Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.

Congratulations to our lab members who recently presented at CogSci 2025! 🥳 @cogscisociety.bsky.social

Check out our lab members' presentations at CogSci 2025!
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Look at the Dots! — MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab For children age 10-12 months This 10 minute research game involves when your child looks at dots. Click on the image to learn more about the study and how you can participate!

RESEARCH GAME FOR 10-12 MONTH-OLDS🤗

🔎 How do infants interpret structured visual patterns? Help us find out!

🧩 Look at the Dots! 👀
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Who Should They Tell? — MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab For children age 8-9 years This 15 minute research game involves short stories about children. Click on the image to learn more about the study and how you can participate!

🆕RESEARCH GAME FOR 6-7 YEAR-OLDS🤗

🔎 How do children reason about well-intended actions? Help us find out!

🗣️Who Should They Tell?💬
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Tell Me About It Too! — MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab For children age 14-24 months This 15 minute research game involves short stories. Click on the image to learn more about the study and how you can participate!

🆕RESEARCH GAME FOR 14-24 MONTH-OLDS🤗

🔎 Do toddlers communicate information selectively? Help us find out!

🗣️Tell Me About It Too!💬
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Guess the Pattern on our tablet! — MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab For children age 3-7 years This 15 minute research game involves guessing patterns. Click on the image to learn more about the study and how you can participate!

🆕RESEARCH GAME FOR 3-7 YR-OLDS🤗

🔎 How do young children make sense of patterns? Help us find out!

⭐️Guess the Pattern with your tablet!⭐️

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Make sure to catch the ECCL at the Cognitive Development Society Conference today through Saturday! Congrats to all of our lab members that get to present their work this year 🤗🧠!

Learn more and sign up through the study page on Children Helping Science!

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🆕RESEARCH GAME FOR 4-6 YR-OLDS🤗

🔎 How do children identify the underlying structure of causes and effects? Help us find out!

👽Alien Garden Mix-Up: Help Out Our Friends!🪴

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🧩 This study is now available for 5-7 yr-olds! 🤗
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🔎Visit our website to checkout more studies!

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🆕RESEARCH GAME FOR 3-4 YR-OLDS🤗

🔎Do children understand what makes sets easier or harder to count? Help us find out!

🐰Help Bunny Learn How to Count!🔢

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Meet Our Team series - Meet Herrissa!

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🆕 STUDY FOR 6-7 YEAR-OLDS 🤗

🔎 How do children track adults’ attention? Help us find out!

💬What to talk about?🗣️

Click here to learn more and participate! lookit.mit.edu/studies/9cf7...

Congrats to @mekline.bsky.social on winning the MIT Prize for Open Data!🥳