Infant Development
Conditions
Brief 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.
Detailed 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 activities? Participants will visit a laboratory at the UC Santa Cruz campus for this study. Infants will put an EEG cap on and watch about 15 minutes of videos, in which people from different racial backgrounds do different actions (e.g., grabbing an object, saying hi and approaching closer, and playing peek-a-boo). Caregivers will be asked to fill out a demographic form and a social network survey.
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.
Sponsors
University of California Santa Cruz
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
7 Months to 12 Months
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mu event related desynchronization | Through study completion, an average of 10 years. | EEG oscillation in alpha power over central regions |
| Frontal theta synchronization | Through study completion, an average of 10 years. | EEG oscillation in theta power over frontal regions |
| Frontal alpha asymmetry | Through study completion, an average of 10 years. | left and right hemispheric difference in EEG oscillation in alpha power in the frontal regions |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactSeaera Juarez, BA
Outcome results
None listed