Edge Hill Babylab

🎓On the lead up to our closure, we wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate our students’ achievements by sharing the key findings from their dissertation projects.

👩🏻‍🎓Caitlyn Swanick was interested in how individual differences influence children's facial scanning pattern in relation to emotion perception.

⚠️Although the project began with the aim to explore individual differences (s*x and neurodiversity), the low sample size and uneven group sizes meant that we were unable to perform any analyses exploring individual differences. This is normal considering the timeframe of the ambitious project ☺️.

📈The general findings showed that preschool children can accurately recognise happy faces followed by sad and angry faces. They were less likely to recognise neutral and scared faces.

📉When viewing happy and sad faces, children tend to scan around the mouth region. And when viewing scared and angry faces (otherwise known as threat-based emotions), they tend to scan around the eye region. This is in contrast to the adult literature demonstrating the tendency to avoid threat-based eyes. The finding suggests that preschool children have not yet developed an avoidance of threat-based eyes and were prioritising on the most salient features when considering emotion accuracy.

💖We would like to thank all participating children and parents for their contribution to this project!

🎓On the lead up to our closure, we wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate our students’ achievements by sharing the key findings from their dissertation projects.

👩🏻‍🎓Evie Paterson was interested in the effect of temperament on emotional mimicry during early infancy.

📊 The findings did not show that temperament (as measured by surgency) had an effect on emotional mimicry as suggested by previous research. Instead, when using an automated behavioural measurement software (baby Facial Action Coding System), that provides quantifiable measurements of expressed emotions in infants, infants showed the highest amount of mimicry for frowning faces and the lowest for smiling faces.

💖We would like to thank all participating children and parents for their contribution to this project!

🎓On the lead up to our closure, we wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate our students’ achievements by sharing the key findings from their dissertation projects.

👩🏻‍🎓Ella Maycox explored the development of emotion perception in 6- to 12-month-old infants when viewing static and dynamic faces.

📊Her findings showed that stimulus movement (static vs dynamic) of different emotional expressions had minimal impact on fixation duration. Instead, infants tend to rely on key features that are used to recognize different emotions (otherwise known as diagnostic facial features). Specifically, infants were attending to the eye region when viewing fearful faces and attending to the mouth region when viewing happy faces regardless of the way the faces were presented in the study.

💖We would like to thank all participating children and parents for their contribution to this project!

Happy Easter! 🥳🐰

We hope that you have an amazing weekend celebrating this holiday, spending time with family and friends, and engaging in some spring themed activities. 🐣🌷

Together with our very own Dr. Rebecca Frost, our colleagues at the University of Liverpool are exploring language learning in toddlers in this new and exciting study. 😄

If you have a child aged 2-4 and would like to get involved, just get in touch through either of these contacts, or scan the QR code! 🎓🥳

Phone: 0151 794 1109
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Email: [email protected]
Website: www.language05.co.uk

This week is Autism Acceptance Week! 🫶

”If autism is caught early, action steps can be put in place to set the child up for success in the future” (Moore & Goodson, 2003)

Autism can present differently between boys and girls and also between adults and children. 😲 Lots of research has been done surrounding Autism, and society is becoming more accepting towards people living in a neurodivergent lifestyle. 🥳🤗 This post should not be used at a diagnosing tool, if you have any concerns for your child please get in contact with a doctor.

Today is World Book Day! 📚

World Book Day is meant to encourage children to read more, and to develop a lifelong passion for reading. 😀 As you know, all participating children gets a free book after participating in our studies. And they can be the "Peep Inside" book or the "That's Not My" book.

For World Book Day the Baby Lab is doing a Book Set giveaway to 2 people!

To participate in this giveaway, like and share this post and leave a comment about our Baby Lab, this could be about when you and your baby took part in research, something nice you think about our Baby Lab, or even tagging someone in the comments. All of the names will be put into a wheel and randomly picked on the 14th of March! 🤗❤️

We hope everyone has an amazing day of reading and we can't wait to see your lovely comments! 📖😊

It is Pancake Day today! 🥞

Pancake Day, also known as Shrove (to confess sins) Tuesday, comes from the Christian tradition of using up all of the rich and fatty foods (eggs, butter, and milk) before Lent begins.

With your children you could make your own pancakes into different shapes and decorate them however you want! 😁😊

Today is World Hearing Day! 🎧

Hearing loss in children is common and by age 18 years, and affects nearly 1 of every 5 children. Without hearing rehabilitation, hearing loss can cause detrimental effects on speech, language, developmental, educational, and cognitive outcomes in children.

To help children with a hearing impairment, you can use more visual communication aids, use facial expressions to help with children understanding tone, and speaking at a clearer and slower pace. 🤗😀