Infant Lab

Last Friday I took Tyler to participate in one of the research projects done in the BYU infant lab by Dr. Porter. They put the brain activity monitoring little hat on his head and he and I got to watch the TV screen as short and long caterpillars were displayed with matching short and long beeps. Then, they mismatched the caterpillars and beeps to see if (at 5 mos), he could detect something as "off." While I'm not sure how helpful he was to the study (he kept trying to grab at the screen or look at me with a quizzical look), I thought it was really cool that TVs and some forms of media can be used to try to understand the world of babies. Plus, he was pretty cute in that little hat! (They even emailed a picture to me to keep!)