Canada Research Chair In Perceptual Development

本课程研究婴儿期知觉能力和社交能力的早期发展。这个项目之所以独一无二，有两个原因。首先，虽然大多数研究检查婴儿数月后的感知发育，但目前的项目探索了新生儿和婴儿如何在几秒钟内主动改变他们的感知，以及这种认知能力在早产儿中是如何受损的。这一发现将有助于理解早产导致认知缺陷的根源。其次，这个项目考察了社会偏见是如何在婴儿期就出现的。识别社会偏见的根源为减轻我们社会中普遍存在的社会偏见提供了机会。

This program investigates the early development of perceptual and social capacities in infancy. This program is unique for two reasons. First, while most studies examine infants¿ prolonged perceptual development over months, the current project explores how neonates and infants can actively change their perception within seconds and how this cognitive capacity is impaired in pre-term infants. The finding will contribute to understand the origins of cognitive deficits by prematurity. Second, this project examines how social biases emerge as early as infancy. Identification of the origin of social biases offers an opportunity for mitigating the pervasive social biases in our society.