the wub at the lab

The wub went to the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies, a few floors up from dad's office. At the lab psychologists basically use puppet shows to figure out what infants are thinking. The logic is that they show a skit several times until the baby gets bored, then vary the plot and see if the baby perks up. By inference, you can tell whether the baby realizes that the skits are different. (The line of research is described on the lab's site, as well as Pinker's How the Mind Works, and the documentary Human Baby).

Not only did the wub help some grad students add a case to their dissertations, but she laughed a few times at the performance, wherein a hand repeatedly chooses which objects to grab. (It's not exactly Mel Brooks, but it was amusing to an infant).

For her efforts she got a bunny wearing a tiny LDS t-shirt.

Unlike the puppet show, she got to take the bunny home to play with.