Our research targets a range of questions related to social and intentional understanding. In order to explore the development of these abilities, we carry out research with participants of all different ages. Our infancy research involves participants as young as 6 months of age! We also have projects for children between 3 years and 15 years of age, and other studies for adults. Each study is carefully designed with the age of our participants in mind so that it's interesting without being overly challenging, and the tasks involved in each study are chosen to reflect the age and developmental abilities of the group for whom it's intended. Adult studies often involve watching short video clips and answering simple questions about them. Studies for children often involve playing games or learning new words. Infancy studies usually include watching short movies that we've made while we measure what infants are most interested in looking at. Some of the projects that we've recently finished or are currently working on include:
Research with infants
* Pattern detection in action processing
* Segmentation of continuous action
* Configural processing of human action
* Processing of fractal pictures
Research with preschool aged children
* Verb learning and intentional action
* Ease of learning differences in language
* Social understanding in autism
* Action segmentation in autism
Research with adults
* Pattern detection in novel action sequences
* Pattern detection in still image segments
* Identification and categorization of action
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