News

2024

November and December 2024 - The lab scanned our first participant! Nardos, Lili, and Arushi presented undergraduate research posters. We learned about insects, "on the cob" popcorn, sunsets, and people's personalities at Labapalooza. We also welcomed a new postdoc (Qiong Cao), and 3 new undergraduate students (Celine Li, London Loyd, and Annie Xian).

October 2024 - Sam and Sally submitted NSF GRFP fellowships. Thalia won funding from PURA to conduct her honors thesis. And we had an awesome "collabathon" with the Isik lab! 

September 2024 - Sam gave a talk to the entire department, and the lab took a trip to the Baltimore Musuem of Art!

Assiya, Minjae, Shari, Amber, Jo, Sam, and Nardos posing in front of artwork at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Assiya, Amber, Shari, Minjae, Sam, and Jo posing in front of Sam's seminar presentation
Jo, Minjae, Amber, and Sam playing a card game at the Baltimore Museum of Art

July and August 2024 -  The lab attends a poster session from JHU's BEHAVE REU to celebrate Sebastian's achievements, and also attended the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) conference in Cambridge, MA. We also welcome our new graduate student, Amber Liu!

Sebastian presenting his poster
Sam, Jo, Minjae, and Shari posing in "The Alchemist" statue at MIT

June 2024 - Congratulations to Minjae for being awarded the NSF SBE Postdoctoral Fellowship! 

Group photo from labapalooza (scientists gathered in a living room, holding paper cranes)
Photograph of white round cake taken from above, with chocolate chips and the word "Labapalooze" drawn in blue icing

May 2024 - We held our third Liulabapalooza to wrap up the end of the lab's first year. Andrew taught us all to fold paper cranes. There was a minor issue with the cake. 

April 2024 - The lab submitted four abstracts to CCN! Also, Di (left) from the Lab for Child Development and Sam (right) held a recruitment table at the Baltimore Brainfest.

Sam and Qiong seated at a table with a red tablecloth, with balloons in the background, and a laptop screen with stimuli in front of them.
Photo of Qiong in front of her poster, which is attached to a corkboard. She is in the middle of presenting the poster to someone

March 2024 - Members of the lab and the Lab for Child Development attend CDS! Here is Qiong Cao in action.

February 2024 - A memorable lab meeting, in which many people from the Hopkins community came together to discuss and give feedback on a theoretical paper that Shari and Jo have been working on. You can read the preprint here.

Picture from lab meeting, of >20 people seated indoors around a table and also at the perimeter of the room
Joseph standing in the new lab space, which features a yellow wall and whiteboard, desks, and a window.

January 2024 - The lab welcomes three new members: Assiya Drissi, Thalia Mason, and Ava Payton. We also moved into our new lab space. Jo was very excited about the sit-stand desks. 

2023

December 2023 - We ended our first semester with our second Labapalooza! Shari had a paper accepted into Imaging Neuroscience, Sam submitted his first preregistration, and the lab started collecting data.

November 2023 - We had a great talk from Miriam, a paper discussion led by Joseph, and ended the month with a joint lab meeting with the Social & Cognitive Origins Group. Lots of pizza was had!

We also submitted this paper (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kx76y), studying the size and source of looking time effects in studies infant cognition.

Group picture from Krupenye + Liu joint lab meeting, with about 20 people huddled in front of a projector screen with both lab's logos on the screen

October 2023 - Many great lab meetings! We started the month with a presentation from Sholei, then a paper discussion led by Sam, followed by a presentation from Tal. We ended the month with two presentations about past work from Sam and Shari.

September 2023 - The lab received IRB approval to run behavioral studies in babies, children and adults! In lab meeting, we heard presentations by Minjae and Joseph, a paper discussion led by Qiong, and a practice talk from Joseph.

August 2023 - The lab had its first Labapalooza, where lab members present for 10 minutes on something (science-related or not) that they find interesting and want to share. We also had our first lab meeting!

July 2023 - The lab is born! The founding members of the lab are: Minjae Kim, Shari Liu, Sam Maione, and Joseph Outa.

April 2023 - Shari's TEDxMIT talk is now available online! In the talk, she discusses infants' responses to danger, and what happened to developmental psychology when scientists and families (and everyone else) found themselves in a novel dangerous situation.