How do babies learn about their world?

- For babies aged 11 months (11 months 0 days days) to 13 months (13 months 30 days)

- Born full term (after 37 weeks)

- Living in the United States

- Primary language spoken in the home is English

For this study, it is important that you meet the age requirement and live within the US.

First, you will be asked to show a US government ID on camera, which is a specific requirement of our university’s ethics committee. Then, we will show a series of short videos to your baby, including things like children dancing, geometric figures, objects, faces and patterns. This will take about 20 minutes total. You can take breaks whenever you need to between videos. Afterward, we will email you surveys that you can do without your child, that may take up to an hour. These will include questions about how your child is developing and learning language.

In this study, we are looking at how infants with and without autistic siblings might respond differently to pictures and videos. We know from previous research, for example, that some children who develop autism look less at social videos and more at colorful shapes. In this study, we’re interested in whether there are other differences in how these groups respond to different types of pictures and videos and how those differences might be related to language learning

80 minutes (30 minutes for the child and 40-60 minutes for the caregiver)

After you have the opportunity to view the videos in this study, we will send you some surveys to complete. We will send the $25 Amazon gift card within 10 days of your response to the surveys. Finally, 6 months after you have watched the first videos, we will invite you to complete the parent surveys again, for an additional $25 amazon gift card.
To be eligible for compensation, the following criteria must be met:
(1) your child must be in the age range for this study and must not have previously completed this study.
(2) you need to submit a valid video consent statement.
(3) we need to see that there is a child with you in the study participation video.
(4) you must present a US issued ID during your consent statement.