Social Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory

Participant Age Range: 5-6 months

Additional Participant Requirements: Infant should be full term and have no current health issues.

Description: How do children learn to remember, and what does that look like in the developing brain?

Type of Study: Hybrid online and in-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 19 sessions: The sessions will take place across the span of 6-14 months. 18 session are done online, and will take 5-10 minutes. In online sessions, parents will upload short videos of their infants picking up a pencil. We will use specifically designed software to track finger movements for the video of reaching and grasping. 1 session is done in person, and will take 1.5-2 hours. In this session, infants will repeat the reach to grasp task, recorded with a traditional and 3D camera. Then, researchers will record EEG during a finger stimulation task and administer a standardized motor assessment.

Payment: $170 for completing all sessions

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Participant Age Range: 3-8

Additional Participant Requirements: Typically developing children

Description: How do children apply their learning to new situations?

Type of Study: In-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 1 session; 1 hour (including breaks and snacks): This will be a behavioral study.

Payment: Gift card and toy or sticker

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Participant Age Range: 4 OR 6

Additional Participant Requirements: Typically developing children with no metal in their body

Description: How do children learn to remember, and what does that look like in the developing brain?

Type of Study: In-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 2 sessions; 1.5-2 hours (including breaks and snacks): This will be a behavioral study and will require an MRI scan.

Payment: $50 gift card per session

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Participant Age Range: 5-8

Additional Participant Requirements: No Additional Participant Requirements

Description: How do children respond to feedback during spatial tasks?

Type of Study: Online

Participant Involvement: 2 sessions; 15-30 minutes: The first session will be a parent survey, and will take 15-20 minutes. The second session will be a Zoom session with parent and child. This will be a behavioral study and will include a survey.

Payment: $5 for parent survey; $10 for Zoom session

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Participant Age Range: 8-13

Additional Participant Requirements: Typically developing children

Description: How do children learn and remember new events and environments?

Type of Study: In-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 1 session; 1.5-2 hours (including breaks and snacks): This will be a behavioral study.

Payment: $25 Target gift card (including gas reimbursement) and a small toy

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Participant Age Range: 8-20

Additional Participant Requirements: Participants cannot wear braces or have a history of head injury

Description: The goal of this study is to explore the relationship that technology habits, like smartphone and social media use, may have with psychological functioning, brain development, and well-being. Participants will complete a range of psychological and brain assessments, and will be asked to share information about their technology habits and other day-to-day activities.

Type of Study: Hybrid online and in-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 2 sessions; 2.5 hours: This will be a behavioral study including surveys, and will require an fMRI scan and MRI scan.

Payment: $20 per hour, with bonus opportunities

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Participant Age Range: 11-15

Additional Participant Requirements: Participants cannot have braces or take psychotropic medication

Description: What happens in the brain when adolescents interact with their peers online? How do they respond to different types of feedback from their peers? To find out we measure how we think and respond during online interactions during functional magnetic imaging.

Type of Study: Hybrid online and in person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 2 Sessions; 1-2 Hours Per Session: The first session will be conducted via zoom, with the second being done in-person at Temple University. The second session will require an fMRI scan.

Payment: $20/hour

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Participant Age Range: 8-13

Additional Participant Requirements: Typically developing children

Description: How do children learn and remember new events and environments?

Type of Study: In-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 1 session; 1.5-2 hours (including breaks and snacks): This will be a behavioral study.

Payment: $25 Target gift card (including gas reimbursement) and a small toy

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Participant Age Range: 14-16

Additional Participant Requirements: Teens must complete screening survey here first to possibly be eligible.

Description: Project RISE studies the relationships between adolescent brain development, immune system functioning, and moods.

Type of Study: Hybrid online and in-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 8 sessions total; 2.5 – 4 Hours Per Session across 3 years. In-person sessions at Time 1 and yearly; Online sessions at 6 months after each yearly session. Includes questionnaires, interviews, games, brain scans, blood draws, and 7 days of wearing an Actiwatch.

Payment: $750 for full participation over 3 years; $150 for Time 1 and each yearly session, $50 for each 6-month session, $30 for each week of wearing Actiwatch, $110 bonus for full completion.

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Participant Age Range: 14-16

Additional Participant Requirements: Teens must complete screening survey here first to possibly be eligible.

Description: Project CREST studies the relationships between adolescent brain development, circadian rhythms, and moods.

Type of Study: Hybrid online and in-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 6 sessions total; 4 - 5 Hours Per Session across 3 years. In-person sessions at Time 1 and yearly; Online sessions at 6 months after each yearly session. Includes questionnaires, interviews, games, brain scans, saliva sampling, and 7 days of 5-minute surveys 4 times/day and wearing an Actiwatch.

Payment: $1,075 for full participation over 3 years; $275 for Time 1; $265 for each of 2 yearly sessions, $40 for each of 3 6-month sessions, $150 bonus for full completion

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Participant Age Range: 13-17

Additional Participant Requirements: Not claustrophobic

Description: We are interested in understanding how adolescents make decisions when they are presents with different types of information. In this study, your child would be asked to play a series of games while participating in a non-invasive, safe fMRI scan for about an hour. After the scan, they would fill out a few surveys that should take no more than 6 minutes.

Type of Study: In-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 1 sessions; 2 hours: This will be a behavioral study and will require an MRI scan.

Payment: $40 with the opportunity to win an additional $10 bonus

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Participant Age Range: 8-20

Additional Participant Requirements: Participants cannot wear braces or have a history of head injury

Description: The goal of this study is to explore the relationship that technology habits, like smartphone and social media use, may have with psychological functioning, brain development, and well-being. Participants will complete a range of psychological and brain assessments, and will be asked to share information about their technology habits and other day-to-day activities.

Type of Study: Hybrid online and in-person at Temple University

Participant Involvement: 2 sessions; 2.5 hours: This will be a behavioral study including surveys, and will require an fMRI scan and MRI scan.

Payment: $20 per hour, with bonus opportunities

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