Conducting research on the effects of emotions and basic visual information, such as amounts of details, on face processing in infants as measured using EEG and eye-tracking.
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Condition
- Other condition
- Communication disorders and disturbances
Synonym
Health condition
normale ontwikkeling
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Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
EEG and eyemovement parameters that reflect several aspects of perceptual and
social cognitive processing.
Secondary outcome
not applicable
Background summary
Recent studies have indicated that the processing of socially relevant stimuli
is crucially dependent on perceptual processes. We have shown in several
studies in children that a disturbance in perceptual development is directly
related to impairments in the processing of social stimuli, especially in
autism. In order to better understand this relation we need to study the very
early development of aforementioned processes, i.e. to study baby's.
A very important aspect within these processes in face perception,
particularly the effects of emotions and basic information such as the level of
details in an image. The effects of emotions and basic information ispreviously
revealed in adults and older children (3 years of age onwards) in our research
group. It is however unknown whether such effects are present in infants, who
show a strong development of both perceptual and social information processing.
In the current study, we aim to investigate the development of emotional and
basic perceptual processes during infancy. Results of this typical development
could be used for future research to gain more insight in abnormal development
in disorders such as autism.
Study objective
Conducting research on the effects of emotions and basic visual information,
such as amounts of details, on face processing in infants as measured using EEG
and eye-tracking.
Study design
An observational non-invasive study. During the presentation of meaningless
abstract stimuli and faces looking behavior and electrical brain activity of
baby's will be registered.
Study burden and risks
Neither the children nor their parents benefit from the study. The risk for
children as they participate in the study is virtually non-existent, their
participational burden is low (the actual measurements take one hour at max,
divided in phases of about 10 minutes). The study is related to this specific
group, i.e. baby's, since the exerimental question can not be answered in
another age range.
heidelberglaan 100
Utrecht 3584 CX
NL
heidelberglaan 100
Utrecht 3584 CX
NL
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Age
Inclusion criteria
Baby's between 9 and 10 months
Exclusion criteria
- vision problems
- psychomotoric retardation
- neurologic disorders
- born before 38 weeks or later than 42 weeks;We will ask for the presence of visus-problems, psychomotoric retardation and neurologic disorders as reported by the healthcare system as deviant from normal. Questions will be asked to the parents. There will ben no additional contact with the health-care system.
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| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| CCMO | NL43006.041.12 |