The Infant Development Lab at Florida International University is known for its research in the areas of infant perceptual and cognitive development. We study infants' abilities to perceive, learn, remember and organize the world around them. By showing infants video films and observing what they attend to, we can learn a great deal about their abilities. Through some of our research, we have discovered that: six-month-olds can tell male from female adults and know which voices and faces belong together; six-month-olds can match their own faces with their own vocalizations; six-week-olds know that a moving object and a sound belong together if they happen in synchrony with one another; five-month-old infants can distinguish English from Spanish speech; three-month-old infants can remember a moving object they saw for only two minutes, more than one month later; three-month-olds can distinguish among different adult voices and faces; and three-month-olds can also recognize their own face and distinguish it from that of another baby.
The success of our research depends on many parents volunteering to come to our lab with their infant for a brief visit. We would like to encourage more parents to participate.
We are located in the University Park Campus, DM 115
(305) 348-2842
We are generously funded by:
