The Malleability of Social Group Understanding in Infancy and Early Childhood
University of California Santa Cruz
Summary
Researchers at the Diversity in Development Lab at UC Santa Cruz are investigating how babies' brain activities respond to people from familiar and unfamiliar racial backgrounds.
Description
The goal of this observational study is to learn how infants' brain activities, as captured by EEG, differ for familiar or unfamiliar racial group in typically developing infants. The main questions of the study are: * Will infants show greater event-related desynchronization (i.e., more motor system activation), frontal theta synchronization (i.e., more attention), and more positive frontal alpha asymmetry (i.e., more approach motivation) to familiar than unfamiliar racial group? * How does infants' exposure to racial diversity in their social network and neighborhoods relate to these EEG ac…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 0–1 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * typically developing * age 7 to 12 months * at least 37 weeks gestation Exclusion Criteria: * any known developmental delays * less than 37 weeks gestation
Interventions
- OtherInfants observing familiar and unfamiliar racial groups
All infants will see videos of people from familiar and unfamiliar racial backgrounds. Depending on the caregiver's race, infants will be assigned to see people who are from the same racial background as their caregiver (i.e., familiar) and people who are not.
Location
- Social Science 2 BuildingSanta Cruz, California