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They want to know how things work, why they are the way that they are, and other important things, like why crabs don’t have eyebrows. How do children get this way? Where does this (seemingly endless) drive for new information come from? In our lab, we are working hard to understand the earliest foundations of curiosity in infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood. We explore questions such as how infant and children reason about and fill gaps in their knowledge, as well as what caregivers and educators can do to help shape and scaffold early curiosity. This line of research is supported by a 5-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation, “Cultivating Curiosity to Promote Learning and Discovery”. Example Publications Vaisarova, J., Kiefer, S., Şen, H. H., Todd, P., & Lucca, K. (2024). Where should I search next? Messages embedded in storybooks influence children’s strategic exploration in Turkey and the United States. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Lucca, K. (2020). The development of information-requesting gestures in infancy and their role in shaping learning outcomes. Book chapter in The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education. Butler, L., Ronfard., S., & Corriveau, K. (Eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Lucca, K., & Wilbourn, M.P. (2018). The what and the how: Information-seeking pointing gestures facilitate learning object labels and functions in 18-month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. *Video Feature by Ivanhoe Broadcast: Learning by Pointing Lucca, K., & Wilbourn, M.P. (2016).Communicating to learn: Infants’ pointing gestures reflect an optimal state for learning. Child Development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/dcdb8c28-d479-4df3-991d-35357087f547/markus-spiske-OO89_95aUC0-unsplash.jpg Areas of Research - Social decision making, persistence, and problem solving How do young learners decide who to interact with, and how to act on the world around them? How do they reason about what actions are worth their effort, or who might make a good social partner? We know that children, and even infants, are very good at making these kinds of decisions, but we know very little about how they acquire these types of reasoning and decision making abilities. In our lab, we are conducting a series of studies that explore what factors (e.g. the social and cultural environment) shape early social decision making and problem solving. Example Publications Kiefer, S., Caballero, A., & Lucca, K. (2023). The role of effort type and intensity in children’s decisions about effort-based outcomes. Infant and Child Development Lucca, K., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. (2020) Infants rationally decide when and how to deploy effort. Nature Human Behavior. Vol 4: 372-379. Lucca, K., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. (2019) Keep Trying!: Parental language predicts infants’ persistence. Cognition. Lucca, K. & Sommerville, J. (2018) The little engine that can: Infants’ persistence matters. Trends in Cognitive Science. Lucca, K., Popisil, J, & Sommerville, J. (2018).Fairness informs social decision making in infancy.PLOS ONE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/fd5477fa-1086-4afe-bccc-bdbf8b48d390/luis-arias-ayH7wwVOtc0-unsplash.jpg Areas of Research - Open science Our lab is committed to open science and best practices for reproducibility. We are part of the ManyBabies project, a collaborative project for replication and best practices in developmental psychology research. Currently, our lab is helping lead the ManyBabies4 project, a large-scale, international research project examining infants’ early social evaluations. As of summer 2021, we have 62 labs from 17 countries signed up to collect data from 1,400+ babies! If you are interested in collaborating with us, you can sign up on our website here. Example Publications Lucca, K. Byers-Heinlein, K., Capelier-Mourguy, A., Cirelli, L., Dal Ben, R., Frank, M., Henderson, A., Kominsky, J., Liberman, Z., Margoni, F., Reschke, P., Schlingloff, L., Scott, K., Soderstrom, M., Sommerville, J., Su, Y., Tatone, D., Uzefovsky, F., Wang, Y., Yuen, F., Hamlin., K & the ManyBabies4 Consortium (accepted in-principle, Registered Report, Developmental Science). Infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/676ab166-f6fa-4e75-81a6-a91aca9083dd/vlad-kutepov-Fmlh1rdMlng-unsplash.jpg Areas of Research - Evolutionary origins of cognition and communication All animals think and communicate in complex ways. Yet, humans are the only species to acquire language, pass on culture, and build institutions. How did we get this way? In a series of studies, we are exploring the evolutionary foundations of uniquely human cognition by conducting comparative research across species. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this line of research is currently on hold. Example Publications Lucca, K., MacLean, E., & Hare, B. (2017). The development and flexibility of gaze alternations in bonobos and chimpanzees. 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Factors Driving Children’s Motivation to Learn about Individuals" -Alejandro Caballero, an experimenter in our lab, won first place for his presentation on children’s persistence at the AZPURC conference! Read the full story here. -Honors students Sonia Patel, Kaitlin Van Houghton, and Nicole Johnson successfully defended their thesis defenses. -EML lab manager, Sarah Kiefer, presented posters on children’s exploration and persistence at the Cognitive Development Society Conference in Madison, WI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654642811023-561T1L94GZUNNOJPCMYB/IMG_8350.JPG News We enjoyed several spring lab meetings outdoors in ASU’s secret garden! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654642809513-5XQ096OQYKK6ALJFQ5D2/Image+from+iOS+%2812%29.jpg News ECCRG Tabling at the Arizona Science Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654642820871-EXBD3XT2E2QQ7CI9KNLZ/IMG_6734+2.jpg News ASU Developmental Psychology Area took to the trails for a desert clean up event! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654642809327-QVTKFDYW5ZFO5UGE9MAB/Image+from+iOS+%2815%29.jpg News Kaitlin Van Houghton presented her honors thesis at the Barrett Honors Poster Symposium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654643085629-EM5SEKM6YOKJC74IYOG9/EML+%283%29.png News Sonia Patel successfully defended her honors thesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654643223570-4LMOI26075R29AD2M9NH/IMG_9013.jpg News Nicole Johnson successfully defended her honors thesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654643242037-CXF94NSU3P00YFEZ7E2S/IMG_9067.jpg News Alejandro Caballero, an experimenter in our lab, won first place for his presentation on children’s persistence at the AZPURC conference! Read the full story here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654643265959-3R1EYS0P38PMDJO8ZUSZ/IMG_5772.jpg News EML lab manager, Sarah Kiefer, presented posters on children’s exploration and persistence at the Cognitive Development Society Conference in Madison, WI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654642963611-OBKCXLQCWCH7XDYPN2OJ/IMG_7369+2.jpg News The EML celebrated our graduating seniors at our end-of-semester party! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/263ad3ab-2490-4bd5-af8d-88ca55f85b61/Semester+News+Collage+Grids.png News - Fall '21 -Our lab received a 5-year CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation: “Cultivating Curiosity to Promote Learning and Discovery!” -Lezxandra Saguid, undergraduate student in the lab, presented research from our Imagine That! project at Italy’s Marconi Institute for Creativity Conference https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/c4b57121-103d-413b-86c7-297ebaf29f6e/Semester+News+Collage+Grids+%281%29.png News - Summer '21 -We welcomed our very first PhD Student to the EML, Nayen Lee! -Sarah Kiefer started as our new lab manager -A pre-print for ManyBabies4 was was accepted in principle at Developmental Science! 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Fall '20 -The EML continued to navigate working together as a remote lab team and we launched our very first online studies—Ready Set Play and Aquatic Adventures! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/e1c12fb2-854f-42ae-bec7-757802d6a628/Semester+News+Collage+Grids+%281%29.png News - Spring '20 - Dr. Lucca published “Even babies know what’s worth their effort” article - EML received its first grant: An Early Career Collaboration Enhancement Award from the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (sponsored by Templeton World Charity Foundation) to work with Mark Ho from Princeton University on the computational principles that underlie communication and learning during infancy! - Netflix Babies premiered and Part 2, Episode 4 (“Relationships”) highlights our collaborative, international work with Dr. Hamlin investigating how children learn to distinguish good from bad and if babies prefer those who help over those who hinder others - ASU Now published an article, “How babies think and learn”, about the EML’s research on infants’ effort and nonverbal communication - The EML joined the ManyBabies team to present updates on the ManyBabies4 project at a symposium at the (virtual) International Congress for Infant Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654038017001-OGM5IH47TCMFDGDGM3MT/P1366472.jpg News We took our first lab team photos! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654038018843-326G6DCCYY50ZDB3R6ET/P1366534.jpg News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654039106080-K8N6HDR56WWWFO5V0ZVT/ERaUItkUcAEchP_.jpg News The Early Childhood Cognition Research Group received a very enthusiastic seal of approval from Sparky the Sun Devil at ASU’s Open Door event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654038016570-2ERX6II9XIHAXZ0F9W8D/IMG_9946.JPG News Lab paw-sistant, Missandei, prepares bundles of study materials to mail to families for our Ready, Set, Play online study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654039134226-0ZPY3TFFWTNOCAR0BQBU/Image%2Bfrom%2BiOS%2B%25281%2529.jpg News Lab paw-sistant, Kiam, helps create study stimuli! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1654038186403-7TN2WJSFP5Q0S0C4XZLD/Screen+Shot+2021-01-21+at+2.06.35+PM+2.png News EML members gathered together over Zoom throughout the pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/4a8730e0-2dd0-4e36-83f6-0dce56e32e66/Semester+News+Collage+Grids.png News - 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Welcome to Mini Minds! Do you have a child between the ages of 12-18 months and are excited about participating in science? You might qualify to participate in Mini Minds! Mini Minds is a longitudinal study conducted through the Emerging Minds Lab at ASU. This means we’re inviting parents and children to visit us multiple times between ages 1 and 3, so we can see how young children’s curiosity changes over time. At each visit, you’ll fill out questionnaires about your child and family while your child plays with lots of different toys. 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I am Angela, I work with the recruitment team. Look for emails signed by me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/f2ee1161-6bab-42a1-97e5-4892253af687/Untitled+design+%282%29.png Mini Minds Meet the Team - Christina Stewart Research Assistant Welcome to Mini Minds! I am Christina, I work with a team to make sure your study runs as smoothly as possible! Your participation in this study helps me complete my Honors Thesis project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/74d71ab7-b7c0-4c8e-bf64-772f380340b6/Pragalbha.png Mini Minds Meet the Team - Pragalbha Ghatigar Research Assistant Hi, I’m Pragalbha! I help run study visits for Mini Minds. You might see me when you come in for a visit! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/1e820c87-10da-460a-8c1a-e44be4a4f7ab/Miranda1.png Mini Minds Meet the Team - Miranda Salinas Student Project Lead Hi, I’m Miranda and I help run study visits for Mini Minds. You might see me when you come in for a visit! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/7b4b58c8-1bbe-47c2-b940-becbeeb8afb0/Screenshot+2025-01-14+at+8.19.41%E2%80%AFAM.png Mini Minds Meet the Team - Saumya Sriram Research Assistant Hello, I’m Saumya! Keep an eye out for texts and emails from me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d77cbe91f14e8649eb4d12c/f3701b0c-0537-4925-83df-a8ce1a6f3fb3/Diana1.png Mini Minds Meet the Team - Diana Espinoza Research Assistant Hi! 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