The Ch.I.L.D. Research Group at the University of Calgary is made up of four developmental psychologists who are interested in how infants and children develop language, learning, and social understanding.

• Our research uses fun, game-like projects to investigate the development of language, learning, and social understanding in infants and children (newborns to 10 year-olds).
• Participation in our projects usually involves a one time visit to the University of Calgary, and the entire session lasts no longer than one hour.
• When a study is being conducted with children in your child's age range, a Ch.I.L.D. researcher will contact you to provide you with full details. You can then decide whether you would like to participate.
• We will arrange an appointment time that is convenient for you and your child, including evenings and weekends. We have free and easily accessible parking, and we will accompany you and your child to the lab.

Please visit our Ch.I.L.D. Research Group lab websites to find additional information about each lab:

We explore what information infants pay attention to in the speech spoken around them, and how they use this information to figure out words and sound patterns.

We explore how infants and preschoolers learn language, and how children organize their world through categories and concepts.

We explore what children understand about thoughts and feelings of themselves and others, and how children develop memories.

We explore what children understand about sarcastic remarks, and the clues children use to decode the intentions of others in conversation.