{"id":59764,"date":"2020-05-26T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=59764"},"modified":"2020-05-25T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:27:37","slug":"go-online-help-scientists-understand-child-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/go-online-help-scientists-understand-child-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Online, Help Scientists Understand Child Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 26, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Parents and children can help scientists understand how the young mind grows and changes\u2014all from home! Children Helping Science (childrenhelpingscience.com<\/a>) from the Parent Researcher Collaborative connects families to hundreds of web-based studies of child development and brain function.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cIt\u2019s like the Hubble telescope of child development,\u201d says Laura Schulz, Ph.D., an MIT researcher who is one of six lead partners on the project. \u201cThere were telescopes before Hubble, but no common resource that allowed such a deep, focused exploration. In the same way, Children Helping Science is a massive leap forward for research on cognition, a new platform that will transform the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

For parents, using the website is easy: from the homepage select the age of your child to see a list of studies, then choose the studies you\u2019re interested in. There are studies for children of all ages as well as parents. All the activities are entirely online, so they can be done at any time of day – whenever works best for the child\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n

By aggregating dozens or hundreds of studies in one place, the project aims to greatly increase the number of people who participate. \u201cFinding enough children is always the greatest hurdle in a study,\u201d says Schulz, who also anticipates that having studies more easily accessible will help bring in new participants, especially from families who might not have time or resources to travel for studies in person.<\/p>\n

The website welcomes any researcher to list their study. The site was created and managed by Elizabeth Bonawitz at Rutgers University\u2013Newark; Hyowon Gweon at Stanford; Julian Jara-Ettinger at Yale; Candice Mills at the University of Texas Dallas; Laura Schulz at MIT; and Mark Sheskin at Minerva Schools.<\/p>\n

Learn more at: https:\/\/childrenhelpingscience.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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