Cognitive Development Lab

The Cognitive Development and Communication lab is part of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. PI: Prof. Martha W. Alibali

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

Excited to share our lab's work at CogSci 2021! #CogSci2021

[Martha W. Alibali @mwalibali]

This Thursday at the meeting of the International Society for the Learning Sciences! #ISLS2021

[David Menendez @MenendezCastano]

Check out our new paper on death in animated films! Check out @enrica_b_ thread below. It amazing it was the get to work with her! She combined her interest in media with our work on children's understanding of death, and designed some cool studies. All as an undergrad!

[Alexandria Viegut, PhD @AlexViegut]

Check out our #SRCD21 poster about how children's early fractions knowledge lays the foundation for their later math achievement! With @ypark246 @EdNeuroLab & Percival Matthews.

I'll be on chat and Zoom today at 3:15pm ET! #SRCD2021 #SRCD

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

@MCLStrainee come check us out! Most of our presentations are math related but all are related to education and learning!

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

Planning which talks to see at #SRCD2021? Come to some of the Cognitive Development & Communication Lab's sessions, featuring presentations by @MenendezCastano @VictoriaJay22 @nicholas_vest @emilyszkudlarek and @amdonovan2 !

[Alexandria Viegut, PhD @AlexViegut]

Excellent dissertation defense talk by @ypark246 this morning! Congratulations, YP :)

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

We're recruiting our final participants for the BioViz study and are hoping to finish this semester. We are specifically looking for children in grades 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7! Evening and weekend appointments are available. If eligible, please email us at [email protected]!

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

Our lab has a new online study for children in Grades 1-7! Students will work with an experimenter to answer questions about genetic inheritance. Interested? Email us at [email protected] today!

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

Many families outside of university communities are curious about what child development research is. So, we developed this video to explain the process. Check it out and share with your friends and families! More info on studies in our lab coming soon!

[Anna Bartel @annabartel_]

Myself and several other awesome researchers have designed this study in an effort to better understand how kids learn algebra! If you know any 6th-8th graders in the US who are interested in participating (virtual study!) feel free to send this gorgeous infographic their way ☺️

[David Menendez @MenendezCastano]

I have a new pre-print with Karl Rosengren and his awesome lab at @UofR Back in April we asked parents to tell us about the conversations they have with their children about the COVID-19 pandemic. We were interested in their child's questions and how parents responded 1/x

[Yunji Park @ypark246]

It’s out! Want to know more about how simple and ratio magnitude perception develop from pre-K to adults? Or how two perceptions are related? Check out our recent work!! With @AlexViegut and Percival Matthews! #devsci https://t.co/Ctvh0pqslF

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

Check out some research from our lab, headed by @MenendezCastano

[David Menendez @MenendezCastano]

Some good news to end the first week of the semester! Our paper on @CBELifescied special issue is now available. In this paper, we examine the visualizations in biology books. Best part: It is open access! Here is the link: https://t.co/6AiEKwnLQe

[David Menendez @MenendezCastano]

Some good news to end the first week of the semester! Our paper on @CBELifescied special issue is now available. In this paper, we examine the visualizations in biology books. Best part: It is open access! Here is the link: https://t.co/6AiEKwnLQe

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

Check out some of our lab's work presented at #cogsci2020 and funded by @NSF. More work on how diagrams (and other conceptual interventions) may influence math learning coming soon!

[Martha W. Alibali @mwalibali]

How do visual features of diagrams influence mathematical reasoning? Do people show preferences for certain features? Some initial findings for adults, algebra & tape diagrams. Led by @annabartel_ , w/ @silla_elena @nicholas_vest @tomonagashima & V. Aleven
https://t.co/9eo8J0soNE

[Anna Bartel @annabartel_]

Any #cogsci2020 attendees want to talk about tape diagrams and algebra? Stop by our poster P-1-153 in poster session #1 at 11:20EDT. Will tweet poster later! Abstract here: https://t.co/p4qu58APp3 thanks to my co-authors! @silla_elena @nicholas_vest @tomonagashima @mwalibali

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

One of our graduate students @annabartel_ has a new paper looking the influence of text cohesion and picture details on science learning https://t.co/MVyXUOmKot

[Cognitive Development Lab @UWCogDevLab]

We have a new paper out w/ Jenny Cooper & Pooja Sidney! on trigonometry problem solving. Diagrams were beneficial across the board, but size of benefit depended on attitudes. https://t.co/2FbrE4zwRs