Check out our current studies!

Head Mounted Videos

During play sessions, infants and parents are often not seeing the same views. The goal of this study is to collect videos from both parent and infant perspectives during simultaneous play sessions. These videos will be analyzed to find the differences between what infants and adults see in the same moments, and will also be shown to other babies to see how they look at these infant generated scenes.

Kinetics Videos

Infants’ everyday visual experiences are dynamic—people move, objects change, and events unfold over time. While previous research has often used static images to study attention development, this study focuses on how infants view dynamic video stimuli. We use eye-tracking to measure where infants look as they view short videos and then examine which features of the videos attract their attention. This study will help us better understand how infants learn to navigate and understand their dynamic worlds.

Scene Memory

Infants are born into a visually complex, stimulus-rich world. Across the first year of life, infants learn to direct their attention to the parts of their environments that are meaningful and relevant to their goals. In this study, we examine how infants visually explore naturalistic scenes and then test whether they demonstrate memory for objects within the scenes.

Scene Repeat

Infants’ visual attention is shaped not just by what they see, but by what they’ve seen before. In this study, we explore how infants look at everyday scenes—like parks, kitchens, or playrooms—and whether they recognize the same scene when it's shown again. By measuring how infants look at repeated scenes, we can learn how early memory and attention interact over development.