Mikako Ishibashi is currently a doctoral researcher at Ochanomizu University, Japan, and was a member of Lancaster Babylab in 2016/17, where she gained a distinction for her MSc in Developmental Psychology. I am delighted to introduce my Master’s project in Developmental Psychology, which I carried out at Lancaster University in 2016. I was supervised by […]
A cynical person might comment that I have loved 3D printing for so long that it’s *very convenient* that such a cool technology is so important to the Curiosity Project. Admittedly, there’s a grain of truth in this. But my enthusiasm began during my PhD when I used toys to study children’s word learning (Twomey, Ranson & Horst, […]
I was delighted to be part of a team of researchers from Lancaster University Psychology Department and Babylab that visited Runshaw College, Leyland at the end of November 2016. PhD researchers, postdoctoral researchers and lecturers gave students a flavour of life in psychological research as well as talking about the fascinating range of work undertaken […]
One of the most exciting things about the Curiosity Project is that we can now 3D print toy objects for children to play with in our studies. By custom designing these toys we can change aspects of them, for example their shape and colour, and see how this affects what children do with them. Here’s […]
Ben Malem explains how infants, like Goldilocks, like things to be “just right” Babies are naturally curious. They love to explore the world around them either in order to help them achieve goals or just to see whether a toy tastes as good as it looks. This inner drive to explore for exploring’s sake is hard […]
Dr. Katie Twomey explains how the Curiosity Project began with a few lines of computer code For decades, developmental psychologists have used ingeniously-designed studies to investigate how children learn about the things they see. Typically, we show children a category of items and let them become familiar with them. Then, we introduce them to new things. Because […]
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