http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Thu, 24 May 2012 07:31:40 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo01.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo01.m4v Psychologist Yuyan Luo explains how she first became interested in studying infant cognition and the types of “looking-time studies” she uses to study how much infants understand about object permanence. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:10:14 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo02.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo02.m4v Luo runs the Infant Cognition Lab at MU, in its second year of existence. Luo describes some of the experiments she began in graduate school concerning transparency and object permanence. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:12:18 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo03.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo03.m4v Luo describes her current research project, which focuses on determining infants’ knowledge of psychological reasoning. Using the looking-time method, she is testing infants as young as three-months old to see if they understand the concept of object preference. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:14:16 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo05.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo05.m4v All of the subjects in Luo’s experiments are volunteered by their parents. Luo talks about research she hopes to pursue in her future work. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:19:28 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo06.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/luo06.m4v In addition to running the Infant Cognition Lab, Luo also teaches cognition development courses at MU, ranging from infancy to toddler psychological and biological knowledge development. 3 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:20:57 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/lab.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/luo/ipod/lab.m4v Yuyan Luo uses “looking-time studies” to learn how much infants understand about the world around them. In this lab video, the top half of the frame will reveal what the infant is shown, whereas the bottom half reveals the infant's reaction. 3 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:17:37 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/zaghouani/ipod/Zaghouani_1_areas.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/zaghouani/ipod/Zaghouani_1_areas.m4v Habib Zaghouani, along with his team of graduate and post-doctoral fellows, is working on four different projects in the lab. The first examines why newborn babies are so susceptible to infection, the second tries to understand how the immune system’s memory works, while the third and fourth aim at developing treatments for specific diseases: type I diabetes and multiple sclerosis. 3 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:49:07 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/zaghouani/ipod/Zaghouani_4_Hoeman.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/zaghouani/ipod/Zaghouani_4_Hoeman.m4v Christine Hoeman is the head of Zaghouani’s project researching infant immune systems, an effort that seeks to understand why a newborn is more likely to have allergic reactions and fevers. The project will hopefully result in better vaccines for babies. 3 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:45:00 GMT