ChiLDS Lab

And that’s a wrap! ☀️🧠 What a fantastic way to end the summer! We wrapped up the season with our amazing ChiLDS Lab team, celebrating all of the hard work, new discoveries, milestones, and memories we’ve made together over the past few months.

So grateful for this incredible group and everything they’ve accomplished. Here’s to a productive fall semester, exciting new projects, and welcoming new faces to the lab! 💙✨

So much fun welcoming students from National Taiwan Normal University to the ChiLDS Lab today! 🌎🧠

It was a pleasure sharing our research, while giving our visitors a behind-the-scenes look at how we study learning in toddlers using eye tracking and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).

Thank you for your thoughtful questions and enthusiasm for developmental science. We always enjoy connecting with students and researchers from around the world and building new international collaborations. We hope you enjoyed your visit to UT Austin and the ChiLDS Lab!

🧠✨ Congratulations to our Women in Neuroscience (WiN) Summer Fellow, Elisa! ✨🧠

We are so proud of Elisa for presenting her research at the Women in Neuroscience (WiN) Research Symposium and Impact Assembly! Throughout the summer, she worked hard to develop her research skills, and this symposium was an opportunity to share her work with fellow trainees, mentors, and members of the neuroscience community.👏

Thank you to Women in Neuroscience (WiN) for creating such an inspiring program that supports and empowers the next generation of neuroscientists.

Congratulations, Elisa—we can’t wait to see all that you’ll accomplish next! 💜

Another conference, another reason to celebrate! 🎉

Huge congratulations to our graduate student, Xiaoqiao, for presenting her research at the FITNG Conference! 🧠✨

Her work examined the neural correlates of encoding and retrieval during a memory generalization task. We’re so proud to see her sharing our lab’s research with the international developmental neuroscience community.

Way to go, Xiaoqiao! Your hard work, curiosity, and dedication continue to make the ChiLDS Lab proud. 💛🤘

So proud of our graduate student, Stephanie, for presenting her research at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS)! 👏🧠
Her work examined the brain regions supporting word learning!

Presenting at ICIS is a huge milestone, and we couldn’t be prouder of all the hard work she’s put into this project. Way to represent the ChiLDS Lab! 🤘💛

We landed in Panama and are ready to 🇵🇦👶🏻 with International Congress of Infant Studies, ICIS

There truly aren’t enough words to say thank you. 💛

To our incredible undergraduate research assistants and graduate students—you are the heart of our lab. Thank you for your curiosity, your dedication, your patience with our little participants, and for bringing so much joy and energy to every study session.

Research is never a one-person effort, and we are so grateful for everything you do behind the scenes—from recruiting families and collecting data to problem-solving, learning, and growing together. Watching each of you develop as scientists, mentors, and people is one of the best parts of what we do.

We love our team, and we couldn’t do this without you. Thank you for making our lab such a supportive, fun, and inspiring place. 🤘🧠

ChiLDSLab FutureScientists ThankYou

Xiaoqiao, one of our lovely grad students, had a very busy first year ✅ Presenting her results at Cognitive Develipment Society (CDS), Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) and at Texas Linguistics Society ( TLS) during Spring term. We’re excited to see what’s ahead for this early scholar!! 📚👏