Understanding light in the late term human fetus: Proof of concept for social research techniques

了解晚期人类胎儿的光：社会研究技术的概念证明

• 批准号: ES/L003155/1
• 负责人: Vincent Reid
• 金额: $ 25.25万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL003155%2F1
• 关键词: Understanding; light; late; term; human

Recently it has been determined that a human fetus lives in an environment which is not dark. This joint project between Lancaster and Durham Universities, seeks to understand how human fetuses respond to aspects of the world related to social information. The aim of this project is to send light to the fetus. Within that light, we will present shapes which are face-like in shape. A human fetus will have never seen a face before. When a baby is first born, she will look at faces more than any other form of visual stimulus. We are aiming to understand if this is something that is learned quickly after birth, or if human genes mean that we look at faces more than anything else. If there is a genetic basis for this behavior, we will find that fetuses will look at a face-like stimulus more when we present it in an upright orientation when compared to showing this to them upside down. Before we do this, we need to first understand how light moves through skin, muscle and fat. We want the light to be the same for all fetuses, which means we need to create a device that can take into account these factors for every individual mother and fetus. Investigating how human fetuses understand things before they are born will tell us about the relationship between early learning and the environment. This work may also tell us how the understanding of social information related to other people changes in early development.This project has potential impacts and benefits related to our understanding of early learning. This has implications for our understanding of the development of different forms of developmental disorders that have a social deficit, such as autism. This is because the ability to process aspects of social information is often impaired in those diagnosed with autism. Therefore, in order to map the parameters of autism, we first need to understand how these systems work in typically developing populations, including the role of the environment for early learning and what babies prefer to look at.

最近已经确定，人类胎儿生活在一个不黑暗的环境中。这个兰开斯特大学和达勒姆大学的联合项目，旨在了解人类胎儿如何对与社会信息相关的世界方面做出反应。这个项目的目的是将光传递给胎儿。在这种光线下，我们将呈现出像脸一样的形状。人类胎儿以前从未见过人脸。婴儿刚出生时，比起其他任何形式的视觉刺激，她看脸的次数更多。我们的目标是了解这是出生后很快学会的东西，还是人类基因意味着我们看脸比其他任何东西都多。如果这种行为有遗传基础，我们会发现当我们把类似脸的刺激物以直立的方式呈现给胎儿时，相比于把它倒立着呈现给他们时，胎儿会更关注它。在此之前，我们需要首先了解光线是如何穿过皮肤、肌肉和脂肪的。我们希望所有胎儿的光都是一样的，这意味着我们需要创造一种设备，可以考虑到每个母亲和胎儿的这些因素。研究人类胎儿在出生前是如何理解事物的，将告诉我们早期学习与环境之间的关系。这项工作也可能告诉我们，在早期发展中，与他人相关的社会信息的理解是如何变化的。这个项目对我们对早期学习的理解有潜在的影响和好处。这对我们理解具有社会缺陷的不同形式的发育障碍的发展，如自闭症，具有重要意义。这是因为那些被诊断为自闭症的人处理社会信息的能力经常受损。因此，为了绘制自闭症的参数图，我们首先需要了解这些系统在典型的发展人群中是如何工作的，包括环境对早期学习的作用以及婴儿喜欢看什么。

项目成果

Do fetuses move their lips to the sound that they hear? An observational feasibility study on auditory stimulation in the womb.

胎儿会将嘴唇移到听到的声音上吗？关于子宫听觉刺激的观察可行性研究。

• DOI: 10.1186/s40814-016-0053-3
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Pilot and feasibility studies
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: Reissland N;Francis B;Buttanshaw L;Austen JM;Reid V
• 通讯作者: Reid V

The functional foetal brain: A systematic preview of methodological factors in reporting foetal visual and auditory capacity.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2015.04.002
• 发表时间: 2015-06
• 期刊: Developmental cognitive neuroscience
• 影响因子: 4.7
• 作者: Dunn K;Reissland N;Reid VM
• 通讯作者: Reid VM

Additional file 1: of Do fetuses move their lips to the sound that they hear? An observational feasibility study on auditory stimulation in the womb

附加文件 1：胎儿会根据听到的声音移动嘴唇吗？

• DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3610439_d1
• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Reissland N

Response to Scheel et al.

对 Scheel 等人的回应

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.048
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: CB
• 作者: Reid VM