Visual and Cognitive Development Project

In a new study, set to be published next month in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, we report in collaboration with Dr. Charles Chubb from the University of California at Irvine in a study using a relatively new eye movement paradigm that we developed, that 6-month-old infants are bimodally distributed in their capacity to detect the difference between the major or minor of a musical key. More specifically, only approximately 33% of infants can discriminate the difference between major and minor modes whereas the other 67% cannot. This is consistent with studies with adults and adolescents previously reported by Dr. Chubb. This new study, therefore, suggests that this capacity is innate.

Here is the link to the the Toronto Star article about our C-section study that appeared in yesterday's edition.

http://t.thestar.com/ #/article/life/2015/08/14/c-section-babies-slower-to-focus-their-attention-says-study.html

The c-section study, it's results, and implications will be featured in an article by the Toronto Star on Monday. Today, the Daily Mail in the UK, CBS station in Atlanta, and various medical news, as well as general news outlets around the world have done features on this important finding.