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10/17/06 - the new exersaucer
Originally uploaded by coffywoman.

Dylan participated in an infant development research project this afternoon where he basically had to watch the experimenter put long and short boxes over long and short cylinders!

The spin was that they were trying to teach Dylan that the short box could cover the much taller cylinder and the tall box couldn't cover the short cylinder (those wily psychologists).

They pretty much just tracked his eye movements and timed how long he paid attention to each trial (a trial = covering/uncovering of the cylinder).

Well, he didn't make it through all 10 trials because he started getting fussy (he also had gas -- I had to tell the folks that if they heard something come out from behind the screen, it was him, not me!).

All told, the session was only about 10 minutes long...you wouldn't know he had such a short attention span from this picture of him intensely focusing on his new exersaucer (and look at that drool)! But so it goes!