Welcome to The Laboratory for Child Development at Johns Hopkins University!


Here at the Laboratory for Child Development, we study how infants and young children perceive and reason about the world around them. Through the work conducted in our lab and others, we have discovered that in many ways children know much more than people once thought! Yet in other ways, children perceive the world quite differently than adults do. Our studies explore such topics as how infants and children track moving or hidden objects, how children learn words for new objects or actions, and how infants and children understand number.

On our website you can meet our People, find out more about our studies, take a Virtual Tour of our lab, read and download our Publications and Presentations, and hopefully just have a nice time looking around!

Are you interested in signing up for one of our studies or joining our research team? Please don't hesitate to contact us via email or give us a call at (410) 516-6068 with any questions you might have. For those of you who have already signed up to participate, we have a handy Map and Directions page to help you find us more easily.

For more information, you might enjoy looking at us in the news or you can download our brochure and download our letter to parents that describes our work.  We look forward to seeing you soon!