May I Grab Your Attention - A Lookit Study

As babies reach new motor milestones, they gain access to new information about the objects around them. Babies who sit up can pick up objects and look at them from many angles, and babies who crawl can see an object in the distance and move their bodies to those objects. How do these changes influence what objects babies prefer? In this study, we determine if babies are drawn to look at different objects before and after motor milestones. We use unfamiliar objects rather than familiar ones because we want to focus on how babies learn about new objects. This research will help us understand how babies learn about the world, and how their motor development influences what they learn. During the study, each baby sees pairs of objects, with short, 3-second video clips in between to keep his or her attention. In each pair, one object is on the left side of the screen and one is on the right so that we can clearly see which one your baby prefers. We also asked guardians a few questions about the baby's motor development. This study session took about 15 minutes in total.