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Oxford Brookes University’s ‘Babylab’
8 Jul 2010
Oxford Brooks University has set up a "Babylab" equipped with state-of-the-art eye tracker technology to help researchers study how infants and toddlers learn. The eye tracker technology is a camera which uses infra-red light reflections to determine where the baby is looking. Studying where the child is looking is based around the concept of “preferential-looking” which suggests that longer looking times indicates surprise or interest. Previous studies have shown that events which are novel or interesting inspire increased looking time in both adults and infants.
The research being conducted at the "Babylab" includes investigations into how language affects the way in which babies group objects; how babies process emotional faces and understand those different emotions and behaviours; and how toddlers differentiate between real and pretend.
For more information visit www.brookes.ac.uk/babylab.
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