Over the first year of life, children learn a lot about numbers and spatial features of objects and object relations. These early skills provide the building blocks to later academic performance in science and math. We aim to understand changes to early skills across the first three years of life in math and spatial domains, such as the emergence of infant counting, infants’ use of shape names and recognition of shapes, and abilities to construct 3D designs. Additionally, we ask about the sources of individual differences, such as how toddlers’ access to specific toys and language interactions with mothers and fathers influence what they learn, when, and with whom.
Play and Language Lab