Babies' Brain Responses to Strangers
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz are studying how babies' brains react to people from different racial backgrounds. This observational study looks at infants aged 7 to 12 months who are typically developing. Your baby would watch videos of people from familiar and unfamiliar racial groups. The researchers will measure your baby's brain activity using an EEG (a test that measures electrical activity in the brain) to see if there are differences in how they pay attention or show interest. They also want to understand how your baby's exposure to diverse people in their daily life might affect these brain responses. The study aims to enroll 100 infants.
- Study design
- This is an observational study involving 100 infants. It is not testing a new treatment but rather observing brain responses.
- What's involved
- Your baby will wear an EEG cap and watch about 15 minutes of videos. You will also fill out a demographic form and a social network survey during a single visit to the UC Santa Cruz campus.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Brain activity will be measured through study completion, which is an average of 10 years.
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Babies' Brain Responses to Strangers
At a glance
Conditions
NCT06550245
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Social Science 2 Building
Santa Cruz, Californiastudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Hyesung Hwang, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of California Santa Cruz
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What this trial measures
- Mu event related desynchronizationThrough study completion, an average of 10 years.
EEG oscillation in alpha power over central regions
- Frontal theta synchronizationThrough study completion, an average of 10 years.
EEG oscillation in theta power over frontal regions
- Frontal alpha asymmetryThrough study completion, an average of 10 years.
left and right hemispheric difference in EEG oscillation in alpha power in the frontal regions