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We have several projects ongoing at the moment:
1. Domain specific systems in infant processing of emotion expressions
This research looks at how infants understand the emotional expressions of others.
Age: Babies are tested at 14 months.
Procedure: For this study, your baby will sit on your lap and watch a series of clips with individuals displaying different emotions towards objects or people. The clips last approximately 6 -7 minutes in total. We record and monitor your baby's looking time to see how they process the information they have just seen.
2. What infants know about seeing and knowing
This research looks at how infants understand beliefs and seeing in other people.
Age: Babies are tested at 12 or at 14 months.
Procedure: For this study, your baby will sit on your lap and watch a series of clips showing people who reach for objects in front of with their eyes covered or not. The clips last about 5 minutes altogether.
3. Understanding how early infant relationships affects infants' ability to process emotional expression
We are looking at how infants form different kinds of relationships and whether this may affect the way they process emotion.
Age: Babies are asked to come to the centre twice- once at 7months and then again at 12 months
Procedure: During the 7 month visit babies view a series of photographs of different emotional expressions while wearing an EEG sensor net (see FAQs). During the same visit we will also measure infants behaviour to a range of situations, for example how they respond to a puppet game or an unpredictable mechanical toy. This is to gain an understanding of the kind of person your baby is. We will then ask you to return to the Baby lab 4 months later where we will look at how your baby reacts to a new environment with new toys and meeting new people. We will also videotape parents interacting with their infants in different circumstances (with and without toys). Both visits last no longer than an hour.
4. Motion-cues of intentional agency
We are interested in how infants can tell sensible goal-directed events from random ones.
Age: Babies are tested at 6 or at 12 months.
Procedure: Your baby sits on your lap and watches short colorful animations involving geometrical shapes. By monitoring the ways the babies watch these movies we can tell how much sense shapes' movements make to them. Depending on a particular study, the movies last from 1 to about 5 minutes.
5. How parents think about bringing up children: links with parenting and children's behaviour
This research is looking at the range of attitudes towards different parenting styles.
Age: Babies are asked to come in twice - once at 10 months and once more at 12 months.
Procedure: During the 10-month visit, we ask parents to complete two computer tasks that involve assigning words and images to different categories. We also videotape parents and babies interacting in different circumstances (with and without toys). This session should last no more than 1 hour. During the 12-month visit, we look at how your baby reacts to a new environment with new toys and meeting new people. This session should take no longer than 40 minutes.
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