FACES: Familial Auditory Cues ERP Study
How do infants respond to seeing faces of different people?
This study investigates how infants process faces when guided by simple verbal cues while they wear EEG caps. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we aim to measure infants’ neural responses to social labels like ‘mommy’ and ‘daddy’ during passive face viewing and learn more about how they begin forming expectations about others based on social group membership.
Study Status
We are currently recruiting participants! We are looking for children who are 9, 12, 18, or 24 months of age. They will sit in their caregiver's lap and be fitted with an EEG cap, which is a soft net placed on the head to measure brain activity. Then they will look at images of faces on a screen while hearing different phrases.
Human Facial Recognition of Primates
How do adults respond to seeing human and primate faces?
This study investigates evolutionary influences in the field of face perception. Specifically, we are interested in the way the brain responds to human and nonhuman primate faces.
Study Status
We are currently recruiting participants! We are looking for UMN students between the ages of 18-50. They will wear an EEG cap, which is a soft net placed on the head to measure brain activity. Then they will look at images of human and nonhuman primate faces on a screen while making decisions about each one.
GRAB: Gender and Race Associations in Babies
This study explores the extent to which children’s associations of specific kinship labels with faces varying in race and gender are related to early race-based preferences.
Study Status
We are concluding data collection for this study.
Judging Characters Study
To investigate the way children and adults evaluate others’ actions as praiseworthy or blameworthy, determine if the evaluations are consistent across these two age groups, and see whether caregivers' evaluations are predictive of their children's evaluations.
Study Status
We are concluding data collection for this study.