07/27/2026
Ice Cream Sundae Lab Celebration 🍨😋
Early Childhood Cognition Lab conducts research in young children's learning and social cognition.
Young children are naturally curious, and motivated to learn all about the “hows” and “whys” of the physical, biological, and social world. In fact, children learn a lot like scientists do - by forming and testing hypotheses, gathering evidence, asking questions, and listening to trustworthy sources. In the Early Childhood Cognition Lab, we study the process by which children learn through all of
07/27/2026
Ice Cream Sundae Lab Celebration 🍨😋
July 8th - July 9th
We recently had some fun events at the ECC lab!
Riley MacDermott gave her summer VIP (undergraduate research) program talk and poster presentation— she did amazing 🥳 👏
We also had a Duke pre-college middle school class visit us for their field trip! They toured our lab and heard some student talks 📚🧠
07/06/2026
Our grad student Jessa’s paper hot off the press 🔥🥳check it out: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cogs.70240
06/30/2026
“Did you Know”? with the Early Childhood Cognition Lab!
Children exhibit a presumption that facts across domains must have an explanation, regardless of whether the is explanation is known. This belief increases with age across domains.
If you’re interested in helping us do science, please sign up by clicking the linktree link in our bio. We also run studies with adults :)
You can also email us at [email protected] or visit us at ecclabduke.com!
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06/05/2026
“Did you Know”? with the Early Childhood Cognition Lab!
Did you know that by role-playing as STEM female role models, young girls become more persistent when doing science?
If you are interested in helping us do science, please sign up by clicking the linktree link in our bio.
You can also email us at [email protected] or visit us at ecclabduke.com!
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05/21/2026
Meet Bryce! Bryce is one of our undergraduate research assistants and is currently a rising senior in Psychology. Swipe to learn more about Bryce!
If you are interested in helping us do science, please sign up by clicking the linktree link in our bio.
You can also email us at [email protected] or visit us at ecclabduke.com!
05/19/2026
“Meet an RA” with the Early Childhood Cognition Lab!
Meet Remy! Remy is one of our undergraduate research assistants and is a rising senior majoring in Psychology! Swipe to learn more about Remy!
If you are interested in helping us do science, please sign up by clicking the linktree link in our bio.
You can also email us at [email protected] or visit us at ecclabduke.com!
04/27/2026
ECC lab current members and alumni @ CDS 2026 😊🥳🥹💕
We had three fun days of fascinating research and hanging out with brilliant scientists 📚👩🏫
04/07/2026
ECC lab is thrilled to be at CDS 2026 in Montreal the next few days!! Come check out our talks and posters 😊🇨🇦
04/07/2026
ECC lab is thrilled to be at CDS 2026 in Montreal the next few days!! Come check out our posters and talks 😊🇨🇦