Spotting Scrambles!

For 12-15 Month Olds

During this study your baby will be shown image pairs. One side will have a partially hidden version of a picture of a face, a baby, a cat, or a dog and the other side will have a scrambled up version of the picture. The pictures will appear for 10 seconds each. You will just need to position your baby in front of your computer's camera so we can time their eye movements!

We will use information from this online study for a separate study that takes place in our lab where we passively measure brain waves using electroencephalogram (EEG). The partially visible objects will be presented to your baby at different visibility levels (ie. 10% or barely visible to 100% or fully visible). We want to learn at what visibility levels babies can tell when a partial object is different from the scrambled version. We can learn that by measuring the time they spend looking at the different pictures. The learned visibility level from this online study will help us to make the pictures at the correct visibility level for the separate EEG portion of the study. The EEG portion of the study will measure brain waves while babies look at the image pairs so we can see how their brains work while they try to figure out which picture is the actual image and which is the scramble.

10 Minutes

You will receive a code for a $5 Amazon.com gift card within 1 week of completing the study. Please note that you can only complete the study once per child and your baby must be within the 12-15 month old range in order to receive compensation. Your baby also must be visible during the entire study to be eligible to receive the code.