A Participatory Model for Integrating Cognitive Research into Exhibits for Children

科学博物馆（波士顿）探索中心正在与麻省理工学院早期儿童认知实验室合作，以及全国四个合作博物馆（波士顿儿童博物馆，印第安纳波利斯儿童博物馆，里士满儿童博物馆，马里兰科学中心），一组科学顾问和评估员Barbara Soren。该项目的目的是开发和评估各种方法，这些方法将使成年人参与活动，帮助成年人理解和应用当前关于儿童探索性游戏和因果推理发展的认知科学研究。主要受众是带小孩的成年人；二级观众是经营幼儿展区的非正式科学教育专业人员和认知科学研究人员。

The Museum of Science (Boston) Discovery Center is collaborating with the MIT Early Childhood Cognition Lab, along with four partner museums around the country (Boston Children's Museum, Indianapolis Children's Museum, Children's Museum of Richmond, Maryland Science Center), a set of science advisors, and evaluator, Barbara Soren. The purpose of the project is to develop and evaluate a variety of methods that will engage adults in activities that help the adults understand and apply current cognitive science research on children's exploratory play and causal reasoning development. The primary audience is adults with young children; secondary audiences are informal science education professionals who operate early childhood exhibit areas and cognitive science researchers.