Check out this article on developmental play and risk-taking outdoors as the weather gets warmer! naeyc.org/resources/pubs…

Our principal investigator and lab manager will be presenting at the Cognitive Development Society this Thursday and Friday. Be sure to check them out if you have the opportunity!

Welcome Lamiya! Lamiya is a Junior Cognitive Studies and Medicine, Health, and Society major who plans to pursue pediatrics in the future. Her hobbies include dancing, painting, and hanging out with family and friends!

Congratulations to our PI, @DeonTBenton, for receiving the Early Career Award at the CDS conference last week! We are so proud!

Thanks for such a great semester, CCDL team! 💗

New paper alert 🥳 Check out this new publication co-written by our PI (@DeonTBenton) and lab manager (Becky Beaton) 😊 This paper looks at 5- and 6-yr-olds’ causal reasoning tendencies under different information processing demands, swipe to see what we found! 🤘

Our PI (Dr. Deon Benton) and lab manager (Becky Beaton) just got a paper published as a proceeding for the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society! This study looked at how different forms of thinking impacted children’s retrospective reevaluation in a causal system!

Teamwork makes the dream work 💛 #research #science #psychology #development #child #infant #cognition #academia #lab #vanderbilt

We had so much fun at our summer team bonding today!! PS don’t ask us if we escaped, we’re pretty upset about it

Congratulations to our PI for this new publication! 🥳

Last lab meeting of the summer today - thanks for a great summer semester! 🫶☀️🌻

Our September events! We’ll be at the Adventure Science Center from 9am-12pm every Saturday in September to share our research and collect data! We’re so thankful to the ASC for their continued support of our research, and are excited to get to know more families in the community 🫶

New paper alert 📢 Our PI (Dr. Deon Benton) just got this paper published! This article examines the findings from *4* classic infant studies, and comes out with results using artificial neural networks to explain the data!

We’ve had so much fun meeting families in the Nashville area and sharing our research this last month 🫶 We have a couple more events this month, and we’d love to see you there 🍁🍂

Next, meet Jason. He is a third-year undergraduate student, majoring in Economics and Cognitive Studies. He is involved in research projects and campus activities that align with his academic interests and career goals. Jason enjoys calligraphy, basketball, and lion dancing.

Finally, meet Maria! She loves working with children and families, and some of her most important values are meeting each child without prejudice, and learning to tailor her practice according to the needs of the wonderful individual she is facing at the present.

Today we'll be introducing our newest lab members for the 2024 fall semester! First, meet Alyssa from Cleveland, Ohio. Alyssa has plans to go into educational policy after teaching. She enjoys hiking, trying new restaurants, and volunteering and touring at local museums!

Congratulations to our research assistant Lamiya for presenting one of our lab’s research projects at the Undergraduate Research Fair this week! We are so proud of you 🫶

One of our undergraduate research assistants, Fedora, just presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists in Pittsburgh! She presented on a project she’s been spearheading in the CCDL (results to come!). We are so proud of you Fedora!!

And that’s a wrap on the fall 2024 semester! Thank you to all of our lab members and research participants for such a successful semester, we couldn’t do what we do without you 💛