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The Developmental Laboratory at the UEA have been running a long-term study following the brain development of infants in both the Norfolk area and in India. They are currently looking for local children and their families to take part in some exciting eye-tracking tasks at the UEA, as part of Professor John Spencer’s continuing work on understanding visual working memory in infants.
During your visit, your child will sit on your lap in front of a computer screen and see images of objects (for instance, coloured objects on a computer screen). We will videotape where your child looks and for how long. The actual task takes only 10 minutes and the whole visit should last less than half an hour. Your child will receive a gift for participating.
Please get in touch if you might be able to help us and please share with friends and family. And as always we’d love to hear from those with children of any age so we can tell them about other studies we are running.
Register directly here: https://bit.ly/3MXRKfE
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Email: child.scientist@uea.ac.uk
Tel: 01603 597376
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Background to the research:
One of the measures the long-term study looked at was the core brain function, visual working memory (VWM). As adults, we use this system about 10,000 times a day to detect changes in the world or compare objects that cannot be viewed at the same time. We also know that ‘at-risk’ infants can show impairments in VWM as early as 6 months. Being able to detect impairments in VWM at such a young age could potentially allow diagnosis & intervention work to start earlier. However, we want this to be accessible to everyone around the globe and not rely on high-tech expensive laboratory equipment. Professor John Spencer is working on developing a method that can measure infant’s VWM in the comfort of their own home using basic laptop & webcam technology that can be used at scale. We are currently looking for volunteers who could come into the lab to try out our eye-tracking task.
