2 years and older

Digital Reading

How do different modalities impact what a child remembers from a story? In this study, children ages 5-8 will read and watch different stories (including three animated storybooks and two episodes of Bluey). We will then ask the children to answer questions about the stories to discover how much they remember about them.

Problem Solving Puzzles

In this study, we're investigating how children learn to problem solve! In this game, children ages 4 to 8 years old will solve puzzles by finding patterns within a set of images. We'll also ask them how confident they feel in their answers.

Adult studies

Implicit Association Tasks (IAT)

How do implicit gender attitudes differ across different cultures? Implicit attitudes are evaluations that occur without conscious awareness, and they may be influenced by many things such as cultural background and personal experiences. In this study, we use different versions of the Implicit Association Task (IAT) to answer this question. As an example, we test how strongly participants associate women vs. men with STEM vs. Humanities. We are running this study in Pittsburgh as well as the Middle East. Ultimately, we will compare the results between these participant groups to better understand cultural differences in gender attitudes.

Investigating Control of Executive Function in Adult Bilinguals (ICEFAB)

A popular debate in the modern cognitive science literature is whether bilingualism or multilingualism leads to better executive control. Executive control is a term that encompasses functions such as inhibition, goal-setting, and other high-level cognitive functions. In the ICEFAB study, we examine whether multilingualism is correlated with increases in domain-general executive control (such as memory) or just executive control in the language domain (such as identifying words in a new language). The participants for this study are undergraduate students from both Pittsburgh and Beijing.