About Us
Our research group at Carnegie Mellon University studies early cognitive development. In particular, we focus on such important aspects of cognition as learning, memory, and attention. To investigate these processes, we invite children 2 to 15 years of age as well as adults to participate in our studies.
Currently, we have several interrelated projects going on in the Cognitive Development Lab. We are especially interested in (1) understanding how linguistic, perceptual, and conceptual information affects categorization and induction, and how the importance of each of these sources of information changes in the course of learning and development, (2) understanding the relationship between inductive generalization, categorization, and recognition memory in young children and adults, and (3) understanding mechanisms and developmental courses of deliberate selective attention in relation to categorization and induction.
Please take a look around our website, and contact us if you have any questions. We would love to have your participation help us to study cognitive development!