• Question: What results are you hoping to achieve with your eye tracking assessment?

    Asked by Jessica to Sonia on 6 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Sonia Lenehan

      Sonia Lenehan answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I am looking a social cognition and how it develops. Social cognition is the part of the brain that helps us out in social situations. For example, knowing when someone is smiling, knowing when they are upset and understanding what we need to do to comfort them. We want to use eye-tracking to take a look at social cognition develops in babies born at their normal time and in babies that were born too early. We want to see if they develop the same or are they different.

Comments

  • Photo: Jessica

    Jessica commented on :

    That’s really cool! How does Social Cognition work?

  • Photo: Sonia

    Sonia commented on :

    Different parts of your brain work together to help us understand social events like facial expressions and body language. So we know that someone is smiling and that the smile is friendly because our social cognition was developed to understand this. We know that things go wrong with the development of our social cognition but we are still not sure why and one of the reasons why we don’t know is because we don’t understand the normal development of social cognition! So that is why I am looking at both term and preterm babies to see how their social cognition develops.