Cognition and Learning Center

Photos from our trip to LSC this past weekend! We all enjoyed running the exciting and intriguing research games that are conducted at CALC. Special thanks to all our participants for engaging in our games. We loved meeting you!

We’d love to give a huge congratulations to our senior lab members that will be graduating this month! Wishing you all the success and happiness as you continue your academic journey! 🎓✨

Big congrats to Kathleen on earning her Master's degree this year! 🎉 Her thesis on 'Sources of Individual Differences in 14 to 18-Month-Old's Counting Recognition' has been approved, marking the beginning of her exciting Ph.D pursuit. As a founding member of the Cognitive Kids lab at RuCCs, her leadership radiates, alongside her unwavering dedication to community outreach and research. Here's to Kathleen's bright future ahead as she continues to make significant strides in the field of cognitive development!

Avni and Krisha sharing their CALC research at Douglas Discovery Day!

Calculating fun: Rutgers Day edition! We had a super fun Saturday playing math games and making brain hats. Thank you to our amazing RAs for their help and enthusiasm.

RU coming to Rutgers Day? April 27th from 9:30AM to 4:30PM the CALC lab will be on College Ave and Busch! We'll have fun games and activities set up for parents and kids to check out!

Spotlight on our newest CALC lab recruits! 🌟 Swipe to hear about their journey and experience in the world of research.

Spotlight on our newest CALC lab recruits! 🌟Swipe to hear about their journey and experience in the world of research.

Happy Spring Semester! 🌸🌿🫶🏻 Welcome to our newest RAs - we’re so glad you’re joining our team! ☺️

This weekend, our lab members visited the Liberty Science Center for our first visit of the 2023/2024 school year! ☺️ Looking forward to a great year with an amazing museum partnership! 🩵

As the summer comes to close, we wanted to spotlight a few RAs who have completed projects and fellowships with the CALC Lab this summer! Great work to all our RAs, we are excited to continue with you all this fall!

Happy Wednesday everyone! ❤️We’d love to give a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to all of our lab members and seniors that are graduating and going on to pursue further studies in their respective fields! 🎉🥳 We wish each and every one of you all the best! The CALC family will miss you all dearly 🥹🫶🏽🐷

Hey hey hey! Rutgers Day is coming up soon on April 29th! Be sure to check out our table near Voorhees Mall on College Avenue! We’ll have some fun games and activities set up for parents and kids to check out! ☀️🌻

Happy Tuesday everyone! 🌸☀️We just wanted to shoutout some of our graduating seniors, Allison Eisenberg, Miofan Chen, and Jasmine Yi, who had the opportunity to present their individual Honors Theses at the Psychology Honors Thesis Poster Presentations yesterday on campus! We LOVE the amazing CALC representation from these seniors! Also a shoutout to Professor Jenny Wang and her endless support and guidance for those part of her superb lab! Congrats team!🎉👏🏼

🌟Check this out!🌟Our very own graduate student Kathleen will tell you all about how babies understand counting!! Yes, babies! Our mission is to share exciting research from real scientists with YOU! 🐷💗

If you find this video as cool as we do, please share it along and subscribe to Kathleen's channel on YouTube!

Babies Understand One-to-One Counting! Welcome to Cognitive Kathleen! I am a graduate student in Cognitive Psychology working toward a PhD, and I study how babies and kids understand math and numb...

✨calling all parents and participants !!✨ these are some of the current studies CALC is actively running as of now! here’s our little rundown of each study and a quick guide on how to participate + get involved! go to our website (https://sites.sas.rutgers.edu/cognition/) to learn more as well! 🐷💗

🧪Liberty Science Museum🧪

💕A couple selfies from our hardworking Liberty Science Museum Team 💫 + a sneak peek of what it looks like from a recruiter’s POV 🤗And best of all we’ll be there this Thursday and Saturday from 10-2🥳 See you guys there!!

✨ CHEERS TO THE NEW YEARS! ✨

The Cognition and Learning Center lab is thankful for all of the work we have accomplished by Dr. Jenny and our talented team. 2022 has been filled with the best smiles and memories. Thank you to all at the CALC lab — see you next year!! 💫

✨💫 Happy Holidays from the Cognition and Learning Center! 🌟💫

1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ STUDY LOOKING FOR PARTICIPANTS!! 4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣

STUDY NAME: WHICH AMOUNT WILL KELLY CHOOSE❓
Link in our Instagram story and information in the slides! Thank you!

Cheers to a new fall semester! 🐷🎉 We'd like to welcome all of our new members to the lab, and we're really excited for all the cool things we have in store this year! 🤫

A few words from Jasmine Yi,
"This summer I am fortunate to be continuing my research with the CALC lab. Through the Cooper Fellowship I will be studying counting effects on number word mappings. I am so excited to make progress on the study, collaborate with my lab mates, and spend the upcoming summer fully immersed in the research experience."

Meet the Team: Jenny! We hope you have been enjoying our online studies for children 3 months to 5 years old. Sign up for one now at https://sites.sas.rutgers.edu/cognition/

Questions asked:
1. Education?
2. Favorite thing about research and/or research projects?
3. Which aspect(s) of the research are you working on?
4. Who's your inspiration?
5. Favorite memory involving children?
6. Favorite TV show/family-friendly movie animated character?
7. Name and type of pet?
8. Favorite hobbies?
9. Fun Fact/Most embarrassing childhood memory?

Meet the Team: Clara! We hope you have been enjoying our online studies for children 3 months to 5 years old. Sign up for one now at https://sites.sas.rutgers.edu/cognition/

Questions asked:
1. Education?
2. Favorite thing about research and/or research projects?
3. Which aspect(s) of the research are you working on?
4. Who's your inspiration?
5. Favorite memory involving children?
6. Favorite TV show/family-friendly movie animated character?
7. Name and type of pet?
8. Favorite hobbies?
9. Fun Fact/Most embarrassing childhood memory?

A few words from Jenny Lin,
"I will be graduating from Rutgers to join the School Psychology M.Ed./Ed.S. graduate program at UMass-Amherst! Within this three-year program, I will be trained to become a well-rounded School Psychologist with advanced knowledge in psychology and education. I aspire to continue conducting research during my time at UMass. I would not have been able to achieve these goals without the continuous support and knowledge from the CALC lab!"

A few words from Grace,
"After graduation I will begin as a clinical research coordinator at the Loggia Lab at Harvard Medical School. I am excited to explore how neuroimaging techniques can be used as potential biomarkers of clinical pain as well as identify brain alterations occurring in patients suffering from chronic pain conditions."

Thank you to those who helped out on Rutgers Day! It was wonderful to hang out with kids and parents while doing arts and crafts!

We had a blast at our very first Rutgers Day!! Thank you to everyone that visited us and built your own piggy 🐷 scientists 🔬! Looking forward to seeing you online and at our lab in the near future!!