Parents

Learn more about our online and in-person studies and check out our frequently asked questions below.

Our Studies

Our lab is currently hosting multiple studies, both in-person and online! We are currently running studies online through Zoom, a video conferencing platform, for infants between 6 months and 24 months old. Our in-person studies are held on the Boca Raton campus of FAU. Participation is fun, easy, and informative! You can learn more about child development as well as contribute to science in a meaningful way, helping us to understand how babies understand their worlds. Sign up today by clicking on the images below!

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What is a visit to the lab like?

Infant and mother in neuroimaging headgear playing at a table top.

Engage with your baby in our interactive neuroimaging studies! We're interested in the ways that both parent and baby's brains process information during social interactions. We record responses from both the infant and parent brain simultaneously while they interact together during structured cooeprative tasks and unstructured play sessions.

Infant seated on mother's lap in front of a video screen. A small camera track's the baby's eye gaze.

We record infant attentional behavior using our eye-tracking system! We use a specialized camera that allows us to record where infants are looking on a video screen. Infants are seated on their parent's lap in a dimly lit room and spend about 5 minutes watching different videos or looking at pictures of social and nonsocial objects.

Parent FAQ

What does an infant do during testing? What do the tests show?

Infants sit in their parent’s lap or in an infant seat and watch an event in a video or on a puppet stage. We measure infant’s attention to the events. The outcome of our studies help us better understand the way that infants perceive their world, and how this changes over the first two years. For example, we are investigating how infants tracking of objects changes between 4 and 12 months. We are also investigating whether infants 6 to 12 months learn from robots as well as they learn from humans. More detailed information about the particular study in which your infant would participate will be given during your appointment.

How long does an appointment take?

How old does my infant need to be to participate?

Do you have parking, and do I have to pay for parking?

Can I bring my other children with me to the appointment?

Do you offer compensation for the study?

Will my child’s information be kept confidential?

Can I stay with my baby during the study?

Will I receive your reports based on the information you derive from monitoring my child as part of your study? What do you do with the data you collect?

What should I do if I need to cancel?

Questions

If you have a question that you don’t see on our website that you would like answered, please email us at infantlab@fau.edu or give us a call at (561) 297-2728.

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777 Glades Rd, SE-43

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