Developmental psychologists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility

W Li, LT Germine, SA Mehr… - Infant and Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread failures of replication and generalization are, ironically, a scientific triumph, in
that they confirm the fundamental metascientific theory that underlies our field …

Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood

A Steffan, L Zimmer, N Arias‐Trejo, M Bohn… - Infancy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring eye movements remotely via the participant's webcam promises to be an
attractive methodological addition to in‐person eye‐tracking in the lab. However, there is a …

Comparing online webcam-and laboratory-based eye-tracking for the assessment of infants' audio-visual synchrony perception

A Bánki, M De Eccher, L Falschlehner, S Hoehl… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Online data collection with infants raises special opportunities and challenges for
developmental research. One of the most prevalent methods in infancy research is eye …

A global perspective on testing infants online: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome

L Zaadnoordijk, H Buckler, R Cusack, S Tsuji… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Online testing holds great promise for infant scientists. It could increase participant diversity,
improve reproducibility and collaborative possibilities, and reduce costs for researchers and …

Online measures of looking and learning in infancy

AS Smith‐Flores, J Perez, MH Zhang, L Feigenson - Infancy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Infants in laboratory settings look longer at events that violate their expectations, learn better
about objects that behave unexpectedly, and match utterances to the objects that likely …

Online testing in developmental science: A guide to design and implementation

L Zaadnoordijk, R Cusack - Advances in child development and behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
At present, most developmental psychology experiments use participants from a mere
subsection of the world's population. Moreover, like other fields of psychology, many studies …

Exploration of factors affecting webcam-based automated gaze coding

H Hagihara, L Zaadnoordijk, R Cusack… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Online experiments have been transforming the field of behavioral research, enabling
researchers to increase sample sizes, access diverse populations, lower the costs of data …

Tablet assessment of word comprehension reveals coarse word representations in 18–⁠ 20‐month‐old toddlers

CH Lo, A Rosslund, JH Chai, J Mayor, N Kartushina - Infancy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The present study explores the viability of using tablets in assessing early word
comprehension by means of a two‐alternative forced‐choice task. Forty‐nine 18–20‐month …

Bringing home baby Euclid: Testing infants' basic shape discrimination online

A Bochynska, MR Dillon - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Online developmental psychology studies are still in their infancy, but their role is newly
urgent in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the suspension of in-person research. Are …

Co** with dialects from birth: Role of variability on infants' early language development. Insights from Norwegian dialects

N Kartushina, J Mayor - Developmental Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research suggests that exposure to accent variability can affect toddlers' familiar
word recognition and word comprehension. The current preregistered study addressed the …