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 […]
Hello curiositiers! As Research Associate on the great curiosity project, I will be talking in this blog now and then about our project. Today I would like to share an amazing trick in 3D printing! It’s so simple to apply, but can bring so much flexibility to your 3D print design. In the previous post Dr. Katie […]
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, […]
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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