Who do I see?

For babies aged 11.5 to 12.5 months who learn English as their first language and who reside in the United States

In this study, your baby will watch a short video filled with faces of different individuals and hear names for these faces (like "dax"). Your baby will later see these faces next to new faces that haven't been named. We will then check which face your baby chooses to look at more.

We are interested in how well babies remember which faces they have seen, and whether they remember better if the face (like a particular individual) was given its own name. Babies pay close attention to what we say to them even before they can produce their own words, and this tells us that how we name objects for them can already guide how they think about these objects.

10 minutes

$5 Amazon.com gift card. After you finish the study, we will email you an Amazon.com gift card within 1 week. To be eligible for compensation, the following criteria must be met: (1) your child must be in the age range for this study and be learning English as his/her first language; (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.