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On March 4 and 4, 2016, two students from Professor Rader's Cognition research team, presented a poster at the Annual Convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, in New York, NY.Contributed by Judith Pena-Shaff on 03/21/16
Learning to think by learning to move: Enhancing infant attention through locomotion by Breanna Kmiecik, Rachael Holcomb, Nancy Rader, Judith Pena-Shaff, Carole Dennis, Sharon Stansfield, and Helénè Larin
Researchers report look-duration towards a hand puppet in infancy predicts better executive functioning at 2-4 years of age. Five-month-old infants were randomly assigned to a locomotor or non-locomotor condition. The locomotor group navigated using a robotic-assisted device. At 7 months we assessed executive function, measured by attention to a puppet via gaze tracking. The non-locomotor group showed less efficient attention, indicated by gaze count/time and pupil diameter. Results suggest self-guided locomotor experience enhances cognitive functioning.
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Professor Rader's students presented the following posters describing the research conducted by their research team as part of the interdisciplinary, NSF-funded project, examining the effect of locomotor experience on young infants’ development of executive functioning: