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October 18, 2019: Dr. Ronfard Featured in #MeetTheNewProfs.
@UTMPsychology recently featured Dr. Ronfard in their #MeetTheNewProfs twitter campaign. See below for their interview with Dr. Ronfard....


October 26-28, 2019: Melanie in Brisbane, Australia.
One of our valuable research assistants, Melanie Asselin, will be attending the 5th International Conference on Youth Mental Health in...

October 17-19, 2019: Dr. Ronfard in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. Ronfard attended the Cognitive Development Society Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky this past weekend. As part of this symposium on...


October 5-6, 2019: The Baby Show!
Every year, the Infant and Child Studies Center gets a booth at The Baby Show. This is an important event for us, as it's where we...


September 21, 2019: Began Piloting Another Study.
Chelsea, an RA in our lab, is doing a thesis this semester with Dr. Ronfard. They are replicating a study done by Bonawitz, Schindel,...


September 6, 2019: First Lab Meeting of the Semester!
Today we had our first in-person lab meeting of the semester! We started our meeting by splitting the lab members into groups, to see...


September 5, 2019: Welcoming 8 New Lab Members!
We're very excited to announce that eight new wonderful UTM undergraduate students have joined our team for the Fall!


August 25, 2019: End of Semester Lab Party!
Today we celebrated our team members and all of their hard work. We went out for dinner and to an escape room in Mississauga. We worked...

July 10, 2019: New RA, Erum, joins our team!
Erum also works in Dr. Gerlai's Behaviour Genetics Lab studying fetal alcohol syndrome in zebrafish.


June 24, 2019: New RA, Grace, joins our team!
Grace has previously worked in the Child Language and Speech Studies Lab on campus, and is also currently working in Dr. Impett's lab...


June 13, 2019: New RA, Saphia, joins our team!
Saphia will be graduating from UTM this November.

June 11, 2019: New RA, Chelsea, joins our lab!
Chelsea will be doing her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. Ronfard. She is interested in studying children's beliefs.

June 1-8, 2019: Dr. Ronfard in Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Ronfard visited Norway to give talks at the University of Oslo and at The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development.


June 3, 2019: New RA, Maryan, joins our team!
Maryan will be graduating from UTM in November 2019. She also works in Dr. Holmes's Social Neuroscience Lab studying a uniquely social...

May 6, 2019: New Lab Coordinator, Samantha, joins our team!
Samantha previously worked in Dr. Trehub's Music Lab on campus studying the effect of music on infants. She is very excited to recruit...


March 21-23, 2019: SRCD
Dr. Ronfard gave 2 talks during SRCD. (1) Explanatory Capacities in Early Elementary School: Can Children Learn the Counterintuitive...
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