Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Meta-analysis is a powerful yet underused tool in cognitive sci-ence. It allows researchers to leverage entire bodies of litera-ture to get a broad and quantitative overview of a particularphenomenon, thereby promoting theory development, and tomake more precise estimates of effect sizes, which enablesrobust planning of prospective studies (e.g. through power-analyses). In this tutorial, we will introduce meta-analysis as atool with which to inform everyday research, and provide par-ticipants with hands-on experience conducting their own meta-analysis. We will also present an online platform we have de-veloped for conducting meta-analyses in the field of languagedevelopment: MetaLab (http://metalab.stanford.edu).