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At LulLABy, we explore the infant brain via different lines of research which necessitate the use of different experimental techniques (mainly behavior and electroencephalography).
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From the many age ranges targeted by developmental neurosciences, LulLABy focuses mainly on early development, i.e., the stages of life before children start talking: newborns (up to 30 days), infants (0-1 years) and toddlers (1-2 years).
Early
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Lifespan development
Lifespan development explores how we change and grow from conception to death. With the same logic, in developmental neurosciences, the brain is viewed as evolving in a lifelong process and this process can be studied systematically in order to better understand how a brain function such as vision, or face perception for example, takes place in the human brain.
Congenital blindness is one case of atypical development which exemplifies the brain's extraordinary plasticity. Brain plasticity allows reorganization and this reorganization is particularly obvious when blind people read braille, a form of reading which recruits touch rather than sight and which activates brain regions that are typically associated with language in sighted people.
Atypical
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Infants show curiosity from a very young age. They carefully explore their environment, observe objects and people that are around them, and show a strong interest for new sensory experiences. At LulLABy, we investigate whether early curiosity is a necessary step to infant learning. To test so, we developed a carefully designed methodological artifact in which curiosity is indexed by infants' explorative behavior.
Early curiosity
Body mapping is about how infants represent their own body directly and indirectly (via a mirror). How does this ability develop with age and how can it be tracked experimentally all along?