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PSY 357 Infant Cognition and Perception
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Faculty:
Les Cohen, Ph.D.
Contact:
Caitlin Brez cbrez@mail.utexas.edu
Description:
Using computer-generated stimuli, we study how infants perceive, organize and understand the visual world around them. Families visit our labs for 20 to 30 minutes during which time their son or daughter (currently ages 6-18 months) looks and/or listens to examples of objects, melodies, or scenes on computer monitors. Experimenters use measures of looking time and preference to determine what types of information infants process from their environment and how they change over time. You would assist in studying one or more of the following research topics: (1) global and local processing, (2) music perception, (3) short-term memory, (4) understanding of numerical value, particularly ordinality.
Qualifications:
You must be a hard worker who takes instructions well and pays close attention to detail. We require that you devote 10 hours of time to the lab per week during regular business hours (M-F, 9-5). You must be willing to make a two semester commitment of summer and fall, summer and spring or fall and spring. We would prefer that you have already taken Psych 418.
Duties:
Locating and contacting participants, scheduling appointments, talking to parents, data entry, reliability checks, and running participants. (Depending on how far along we are in designing and running specific studies, you may have the opportunity to help design stimuli, set up studies, and work on data analysis.) A short 2-page paper will be required at the end of each semester.
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