Welcome to the Metcalf Infant Research Lab at Brown University's Facebook community! We'd like to use this platform to provide a resource for moms, dads and moms-to-be, with fun and helpful information on pregnancy, development, parenthood, kid-friendly ideas, local events, area happenings and more, as well as the entertainment they want and sense of community they crave. We hope to develop an env
ironment where parents & grandparents feel comfortable sharing information on these topics. We strongly encourage participants from our studies and others to share our page with friends and family members that they think might want to learn more about us! It is also our goal to keep this page appropriate for all. We won't expect to but we have the right to remove any posts containing abusive or offensive language, spam or advertising. Please help us to keep this Facebook community functioning as a place where we all feel comfortable sharing! www.babies.brown.edu is the home webpage for our research lab. We study infant language acquisition by conducting research in infant speech perception. We're always looking for families to come in with their infants to participate! The actual mission for our research lab is to enroll participants to take part in our studies. Our research relies on the generous participation of everyday parents who take time out of their lives to visit our lab with their infants and toddlers. Most of our studies involve one short visit (less than 30 minutes) to our lab, in which we measure your child's interest in sounds and words that are played through a speaker. We're located on the East Side of Providence, RI. Since 1989,we have been conducting research in Infant Speech Perception, in order to understand this amazing process. Over the years, we have been involved in a number of research projects - for example, how babies find the boundaries between words in speech (therearenospacesbetweenwordswhenwetalk) , what babies know about the individual sounds that make up the words of their language, and what kinds of properties of the speech they hear might be helpful in the learning process.
