The world "scene" through your baby's eyes

For infants ages 0 to 9 months.

During this study, your child will watch a short video. The video will show short clips of real places and faces. Your child can sit on your lap or in a high chair, and we will record where your child looks as they watch the video. Your job will simply be to remain neutral and supervise.

The study explores how babies learn to perceive "places", or the local navigable visual environment. For example, are babies sensitive to the overall shape of typical scenes, over and above the clutter of objects, textures, colours, and materials that make up those scenes? And do babies learn this from early on in infancy, or only later, e.g., once they’ve started using scenes to guide their locomotion? Answering these questions could help us determine how much knowledge babies are born with, and how much they learn through experience. In the long run, we hope this research can help establish typical developmental trajectories, and basic developmental mechanisms, which we hope might one day inform approaches to intervention and rehabilitation in cases of developmental disorder.

15 minutes

After participating in this study, you will be compensated a $5 Amazon Gift Card within 2 weeks which can only be redeemed at Amazon.com. To be eligible for the gift card: 1) Your child must be in the age range for this study, 2) You need to submit a valid consent statement, and 3) We need to see that there is a child with you. You and your child do not need to finish the whole study to receive the gift card. Your child can only complete this study once for compensation.