Francie's First Diploma

Today Francie participated in a research study at Stanford in their "Infant Studies" department on efficiency and spoken language processing. We played together in a room with a video camera and microphone on us for 15 minutes and then she sat on my lap in a dark room with a projector while a "movie" showed different photos and marked her response to the words they said, throwing in a few non-sense words for random objects to see if she would learn them. I had to wear dark glasses with blinders so I wouldn't influence where she looked! We go back in a week, record her normal life at home on a little recorder they gave us for her to wear in a pocket and then go back again in 6 months to finish the study. It was fun and she was very proud of her "diploma" :)