Friday, March 04, 2011

We donated Dylan to science!

Actually we just loaned him.

Dylan took place in a study at UC Berkeley's Infant Cognition and Language Lab.  He sat in a high chair and was shown boxes of yellow and pink ping pong balls. The researcher took samples of balls out of the boxes.  Some samples were representative of the color distribution of balls in the box, and some were not.  The point of the study was to determine whether babies have a sense of probability.  They timed how long Dylan looked at each sample, since babies are known to look longer at unexpected things.

2 comments:

Dorothy said...

Way to go Dylan!

Love,
Grandmom Dorothy

Grandmama said...

Ditto what Grandmom Dorothy said.