Cognitive Development Center at CU

Big news at the Cognitive Development Center!:

1) We are happy to announce a new faculty hire, Lei Yuan (https://www.leiyuanlab.com/), joining our collection of labs, including Eliana Colunga's DACS Lab (http://psych.colorado.edu/~colungalab/CULanguage/CU-LANGUAGE.html) and Monique LeBourgeois' Sleep and Development Lab (https://www.colorado.edu/lab/sleepdev/).

2) One of our former faculty members, Yuko Munakata, and three of her graduate students — Jesse Niebaum, Winnie Zhuang, and Jade Yonehiro — have moved to the University of California, Davis, with much gratitude to all the families who have participated in projects with the Cognitive Development Center over the years. Hilary Traut chose to stay in Boulder, where she will finish her dissertation with Professor Munakata as her remote mentor. Professor Munakata is now directing the Cognition in Context Lab (https://cognitionincontext.ucdavis.edu/) — their updates on child development research (including projects that families participated in at the Cognitive Development Center) will be available on Facebook here (https://www.facebook.com/CognitionInContextLab/).

3) Grace Dostart, our Center Coordinator, and Ryan Guild, our Professional Research Assistant, are both transitioning to the Renée Crown Wellness Institute (https://www.colorado.edu/crowninstitute/) as Research Project Managers. We wish them both well in their future endeavors!

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"Berry" young helpers may show signs of altruistic tendencies:

The surprising altruism of babies Infants will give away food to a stranger even when they’re hungry, a new psychology study finds.

Barking up the right tree: Using canine research to inform language perception in children?

Perspective | Babies are bad at listening in noisy places. Dogs aren’t. My pets took part in a study to learn why. The U-Md. center’s canine testing is uncovering the language perceptions of pooches like mine, giving them insight into human infant skills.

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Do you think your child’s knowledge is reliable? Are you sure?

Children’s shifting responses are more than what they seem Repeated questioning can result in variable responses because children are leveraging the social context to learn about the world

Are children s'more willing to delay rewards if they depend on each other to do the same?

'Marshmallow test' redux: Children show better self-control when they depend on each other The researchers say their experiments are the first to show that children are more willing to delay gratification for cooperative reasons than for individual goals.

Why no one really knows the full “power of media over modern life” — and a possible solution:

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