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November 7, 2023: My Research Journey - Dr. Anna Kosovicheva
We interviewed Dr. Anna Kosovicheva, the co-director of the Applied Perception and Psychophysics Lab, about her academic and research...


November 6, 2023: My Research Journey - Dr. Ben Wolfe
We interviewed Dr. Ben Wolfe, the co-director of the Applied Perception and Psychophysics Lab, about his academic and research journey!...


October 30, 2023: Allison's presentation is accepted for the SPSP Annual Convention!
One of our amazing Research Assistants, Allison Gutierrez had her presentation on "Children's Understanding and Attitudes Towards...


October 27, 2023: ““Shape bias” goes social: Children categorize people by weight rather than race”
In this week's lab meeting we discussed Peretz-Lange and Kibbe’s (2023) article, ““Shape bias” goes social: Children categorize people by...


Yang, Q. T., Sleight, S., Ronfard, S., & Harris, P. L. (2023).
Young children's conceptualization of empirical disagreements. Cognition, 241. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105627. Click here to read...


Goulding, B. W, Khan, F., Fukuda, K., Lane J. D. & Ronfard, S. (2023).
The Development of Modal Intuitions: A Test of Two Accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(1), 184–199. doi:...


September 18, 2023: Welcoming the new Research Assistants!
We're very excited to announce that four new amazing U of T undergraduate students, Marta Mhanna, Gabriella Di Maio, Rebeca Reyes and...


July 19, 2023: My Research Journey Part 2 - Dr. Samuel Ronfard
We interviewed Dr. Samuel Ronfard, the director of the ChiLD Lab, about his academic and research journey! Click below to watch part 2:


July 13, 2023: Resuming In-Person Studies!
We're excited to announce that we've finally reopened our lab to families!


July 6, 2023: My Research Journey - Dr. Samuel Ronfard
We interviewed Dr. Samuel Ronfard, the director of the ChiLD Lab, about his academic and research journey! Click below to watch part 1:


Lane, J.D. & Ronfard, S. (2023).
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(5), 720–734. doi:...


June 10, 2023: Polish Festival!
The Polish Festival was held at Celebration Square last weekend, and our research assistants recruited 54 children! Children won prizes...


Ronfard, S., Brown, S. A., Pitt, E. & Kelemen, D. (2023).
Is book reading always best? Children learn and transfer complex scientific explanations from books or animations. Evolution: Education...


June 3-4, 2023: Bread and Honey Festival!
Our research assistants ran a booth at the Bread and Honey Festival in Mississauga over the weekend and recruited 125 children! They...


May 15, 2023: Welcoming the new Research Assistants!
We're very excited to announce that three new amazing U of T undergraduate students, Hannah Ang, Maira Salman, and Zoha Yousuf, have...
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