Examining perceptual, cognitive, and social development in young infants. Currently, we are studying how quickly infants detect emotion in facial expressions.
The Baby Lab is a research lab on the University of Kansas Edwards campus in Overland Park, KS. We study how babies’ cognitive abilities change over time, particularly in the first year of life. We are interested how attention to different types of objects leads to the complex social abilities that emerge in infancy. Our equipment allows us to see exactly where on the screen a child is looking, an
04/11/2023
Hi friends! Dr. Nicki Zieber has moved to Kansas City University and has a new page for the KCU Baby Development Lab. Please check out our FB page (https://www.facebook.com/KCUBabyDevLab) or our lab website (www.kcubabydevlab.com). Please Like or Follow our new page to help the lab get up and running!
07/29/2022
Thank you to all the families who participated in our "Ready, Set, Emotion!" study. We have some preliminary results we'd like to share. First, we found large differences in how babies detect female versus male faces. We expect this to be because most babies have extensive experience with female faces. This leads to faster processing of females' faces. We found that at 767ms babies preferred to look at angry male faces, but preferred to look away from angry female faces. This was unexpected, but could be due to the familiarity of female faces for most babies - maybe they avoid looking to a face similar to their primary caregiver when it is angry. But angry male faces may be something they have little experience with and so it draws their attention.
We are still working on writing up our results for publication. They will probably be published in the next year, and we will post a link to the journal website once they are published. Thanks to all babies who participated!
04/19/2022
Thank you again, for families and babies who have come to participate in our study. We couldn't complete our work without your support!
04/18/2022
Another happy participant! Thanks for coming to visit us at the KU Baby Lab.
04/18/2022
Thank you to Baby 100! We have had such a wonderful time working with attentive babies from families in our area.
04/15/2022
Big week in the KU Baby Lab! Lots of wonderful babies visited us and helped with our study!
04/07/2022
We have enjoyed working with so many attentive babies. If you know a 7-8 month old who might be interested, please like and share our page!
04/06/2022
Welcome one and all! Elly gave us a hand with our study today and there is still time for your 7-8 mos to join in on our study. Please contact us if you are interested in participating, call or text 913-717-9472.
04/05/2022
Emaya was as interested in the faces on the TV as she was of me in my mask! She did a great job- focused the whole time!
04/04/2022
Another attentive participant! If you and your 7-8 month old would like to join our study, please reach out. Call or text 913-717-9472
03/30/2022
We had our 80th participant come in today! Way to go, Theo! You did a great job!
Starting the day off with one very serious participant! We love to work with your babies. If you have a 7-8 month old, please reach out via call or text at 917-717-9472 or email us at [email protected]
KU Baby Lab Edwards Campus Examining perceptual, cognitive, and social development in young infants.
| Monday | 9am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 5pm |
| Friday | 9am - 5pm |