MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab

On the thought that the best way to demonstrate the kinds of data that childrenhelpingscience.org can produce is to build the datasets myself, I'm thinking of vibe coding an ASR benchmark task for child speech. If you'd be interested in such a dataset, what properties would you want it to have?

Re-upping for Monday morning: I have the infrastructure to generate a completely novel child ASR dataset for ages ~2-12, let's say 50 kids/year and 10 minutes/kid. People generally don't believe this claim, so I'm just going to make it. Speech/reading/Ed tech folks: what's on your wish list?

We're so excited to be attending @cogdevsoc.bsky.social in Montreal! Catch the lab in action in poster sessions, presentations, and symposiums! #cds2026

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

This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...

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! 👩🏻‍💻🚸💕

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.

Check out our lab members' presentations at CogSci 2025! @cogscisociety.bsky.social #cogsci2025 #MIT #ECCL #cognitivescience #developmentalcognition

RESEARCH GAME FOR 10-12 MONTH-OLDS🤗 🔎 How do infants interpret structured visual patterns? Help us find out! 🧩 Look at the Dots! 👀 eccl.mit.edu/study-detail...

🆕RESEARCH GAME FOR 6-7 YEAR-OLDS🤗 🔎 How do children reason about well-intended actions? Help us find out! 🗣️Who Should They Tell?💬 eccl.mit.edu/study-detail...

🆕RESEARCH GAME FOR 14-24 MONTH-OLDS🤗 🔎 Do toddlers communicate information selectively? Help us find out! 🗣️Tell Me About It Too!💬 eccl.mit.edu/study-detail...

Visit the study page on Children Helping Science to learn more! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/4dd3...

🆕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!⭐️ eccl.mit.edu/study-detail...

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! lookit.mit.edu/studies/d8b9...

🆕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!🪴 eccl.mit.edu/study-detail...

🧩 This study is now available for 5-7 yr-olds! 🤗 lookit.mit.edu/studies/d2bd...

🔎Visit our website to checkout more studies! eccl.mit.edu/studies

🆕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!🔢 Click here to learn more! lookit.mit.edu/studies/6596...

Meet Our Team series - Meet Herrissa! IG: @mit_eccl www.instagram.com/p/C2kx0llOv2...

🆕 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!🥳