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Associated ManyBabies project(s)

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Is there an existing entry for your activity/initiative on the linked spreadsheet? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1esnJTsPB0NJ2PP0fwmWIhSxShKLIN99Ga8ehCDyz3rQ/edit?usp=sharing.

LITTLE ONES IN 16 COUNTRIES LOVE HEARING BABY TALK

Mike Frank, MELISSA DE WITTE-STANFORD

https://www.futurity.org/baby-talk-around-world-2307962-2/

press release for MB1 publication

University of Manitoba issued a press release for the AMPPS publication

ManyBabies1 press release University of Manitoba

M_Soderstrom@umanitoba.ca

https://news.umanitoba.ca/baby-talk-is-just-fine-thanks

The Preference of Dutch Monolingual Infants for Infant-Directed Speech over Adult-Directed Speech: a Contribution to the ManyBabies 1 Project

C.C.Levelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/63612

Building international collaborative research networks

New York City, Max Planck - NYU Center for Language, Music, and Emotion

ManyBabies Africa Workshop

Post-Doc, Governing Board

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Mission Award

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Mission Award

Local public presentation ("Pint of Science")

Rethinking Baby Science: Open Collaborative Research as a Solution to the Replication Crisis

M_Soderstrom@umanitoba.ca

Governing Board, Leadership Team

https://pintofscience.ca/event/understanding-our-brain-from-babies-to-elderly

Pint of Science is an international festival geared to bringing science to the public, involving informal presentations in pubs.

ManyBabies: Benefits and challenges of large-scale collaborative infancy research

M_Soderstrom@umanitoba.ca

The path to high-powered studies: Insights from developmental psycholinguistics.

Part of the annual "MPI Proudly Presents" symposium

Language Acquisition across Cultures and Methodological Approaches

Opportunities and limitations of cross-laboratory data: Lessons from meta-analyses and large-scale collaborations.

Dynamically aggregating evidence in community-augmented meta-analyses [Keynote]

Discussed the re-analysis with meta-analytic data spinoff

International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS 2019)

Can large-scale replication projects serve as best practice models for single researchers?

Re-analyzing the MB1 data with Julia

https://repsychling.github.io/

Good news, everything comes out the same in Julia :)

$52,000 Global Collaborative Network Grant (Princeton University)

Global Collaborative Network Grant

https://international.princeton.edu/research-partnerships/funding-opportunities/research

INCC group-Language and Cognition Team

ManyBabies1:Infant-direct speech preferences

Marino Caterina/Katie Von Holzen

PhD student (at that time) and post-doc

Yes (if so, please avoid duplicates by not submitting this form)

Two invited talks at a special session at the 177th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America

Acoustical Society of America

Melanie Soderstrom (speaker)

Governing Board, Leadership Team

special session was organized by Linda Polka & Mark Vandamn

Press release about the ManyBabies Project

ManyBabies1 press release University of Konstanz

Bettina Braun
Katharina Zahner
Press Office at the University of Konstanz

https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/university/news-and-media/current-announcements/press-releases/press-releases-in-detail/wenn-erwachsene-babysprache-sprechen/

Babypraat schaadt taalontwikkeling niet – integendeel zelfs

https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/babypraat-schaadt-taalontwikkeling-niet-integendeel-zelfs/

Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development

Does bilingualism affect the preference for infant-directed speech? Evidence from ManyBabies 1B

Casey Lew-Williams
Krista Byers-Heinlein
the ManyBabies Consortium

International Congress of Infant Studies

Bilingual infants’ preference for infant-directed speech: ManyBabies 1B

Krista Byers-Heinlein
on behalf of the MB1B Group

Many Paths to Language (virtual MPaL 2020)

Opportunities and challenges of setting up global large-scale replications: ManyBabies1-Africa

Angeline Sin Mei Tsui
Catherine Mbagaya
Mulat Asnake
Christina Bergmann
The ManyBabies-Africa Consortium

Post-Doc, Governing Board, Leadership Team

Many Paths to Language (virtual MPaL 2020)

Toward a large-scale collaboration for infant online testing: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome

Christina Bergmann
Helen Buckler
Rhodri Cusack
Sho Tsuji
Lorijn Zaadnoordijk
The Manybabies-AtHome Consortium

Post-Doc, Governing Board, Leadership Team

Sustainability and the Climate Crisis Conference (Concordia Univeresity)

Sustainable Research through Open Scholarship

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zEuFAAM_RSr8smc3sqC1b-pCAIbAExq4AKZUyg-RR44/edit?usp=sharing

[MB1B paper published] Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, A. S. M., Bergmann, C., Black, A. K., Brown, A., Carbajal, M. J., Durrant, S., Fennell, C. T., Fiévet, A.-C., Frank, M. C., Gampe, A., Gervain, J., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hamlin, J. K., Havron, N., Hernik, M., Kerr, S., Killam, H., Klassen, K., … Wermelinger, S. (2021). A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920974622

Advances in Methods and practices in psychological science

A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech

Krista Byers-Heinlein
Angeline Sin Mei Tsui
Christina Bergmann
Alexis K. Black
Anna Brown
Maria Julia Carbajal
Samantha Durrant
Christopher T. Fennell
Anne-Caroline Fiévet
Michael C. Frank
Anja Gampe
Judit Gervain
Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez
J. Kiley Hamlin
Naomi Havron
Mikołaj Hernik
Shila Kerr
Hilary Killam
Kelsey Klassen
Jessica E. Kosie
Ágnes Melinda Kovács
Casey Lew-Williams
Liquan Liu
Nivedita Mani
Caterina Marino
Meghan Mastroberardino
Victoria Mateu
Claire Noble
Adriel John Orena
Linda Polka
Christine E. Potter
Melanie S. Schreiner
Leher Singh
Melanie Soderstrom
Megha Sundara
Connor Waddell
Janet F. Werker
Stephanie Wermelinger

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245920974622

[Gaze Following paper published] Byers‐Heinlein, K, Tsui, RK‐Y and van Renswoude, D, Black, A, Barr, R, Brown, A, Colomer, M, Durrant, S, Gampe, A, Gonzalez‐Gomez, N, Hay, JF, Hernik, M, Jartó, M, Kovács, AM, Laoun‐Rubenstein, AM, Lew‐Williams, C, Liszkowski, U, Liu, L, Noble, C, … Singh, L. (2020). The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi‐laboratory study. Infancy. 26(1), 4– 38. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12360

The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi‐laboratory study.

Krista Byers‐Heinlein 
Rachel Ka‐Ying Tsui 
Daan van Renswoude 
Alexis K. Black 
Rachel Barr 
Anna Brown 
Marc Colomer 
Samantha Durrant 
Anja Gampe 
Nayeli Gonzalez‐Gomez 
Jessica F. Hay 
Mikołaj Hernik 
Marianna Jartó 
Ágnes Melinda Kovács 
Alexandra Laoun‐Rubenstein 
Casey Lew‐Williams 
Ulf Liszkowski 
Liquan Liu 
Claire Noble 
Christine E. Potter 
Joscelin Rocha‐Hidalgo 
Nuria Sebastian‐Galles 
Melanie Soderstrom 
Ingmar Visser 
Connor Waddell 
Stephanie Wermelinger 
Leher Singh

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/infa.12360

Media/Press roundup from MB1B publication. Several media outlets released articles on the MB1B findings:
University of Manitoba Today; https://news.umanitoba.ca/bilingual-babies-prefer-baby-talk-new-study-shows/
McGill Reporter; https://reporter.mcgill.ca/bilingual-babies-prefer-baby-talk-in-any-language/
Radio Canada International; https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2021/03/23/infants-prefer-baby-talk-own-language-study-shows/
Language Magazine; https://www.languagemagazine.com/2021/03/24/bilingual-infants-prefer-baby-talk/
KNX 10.70 News Radio; https://www.radio.com/knx1070/news/local/ucla-study-babies-in-bilingual-families-prefer-baby-talk
Technology Networks; https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/even-bilingual-babies-prefer-baby-talk-347156
US News HealthDay; https://consumer.healthday.com/b-3-24-whatever-the-language-babies-love-baby-talk-2651172003.html
Le Journal de Montréal (in French); https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/03/23/les-bebes-preferent-le-langage-enfantin-plutot-quun-vocabulaire-adulte-1
WELT (in German); https://www.welt.de/kmpkt/article229072179/Diesen-Vorteil-haben-Kinder-mit-denen-in-Babysprache-gesprochen-wird.html
Kurier (in German); https://kurier.at/wissen/wissenschaft/babys-bevorzugen-baby-talk-in-muttersprache/401329998
Bebés y Más (in Spanish); https://www.bebesymas.com/desarrollo/bebes-prefieren-que-usemos-lenguaje-bebes-esten-aprendiendo-idioma-dos
DocCheck (in German); https://www.doccheck.com/de/detail/articles/32347-baby-talk-muttersprache-gewinnt

Media/Press roundup from MB1B publication

See description for URLs to content

Introduction to R for Developmental Research Workshop

Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS)

Large-scale grassroots collaborations are changing research for the better: The ManyBabies model

Krista Byers-Heinlein, Melanie Soderstrom, Kiley Hamlin

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y7hTLWXAjHhRcZMtCkE3BBX6od3fL0mE/view?usp=sharing

Part of symposium on open science

Many Babies: Benefits and challenges of large-scale collaborative infancy research

M_Soderstrom@umanitoba.ca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7eCypQVjZ0

European Researcher's Night

What are you talking about, baby?

Post-Doc, Governing Board

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQCMyKAKDr/

Participating in panel discussion at MetaScience 2021

Lessons From the "Big Team Science" Movement

kiley.hamlin@psych.ubc.ca

Virtual (Metascience 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xnvNA-zycA

"A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech" nominated for Québec Science magazine’s 10 Discoveries of the Year

Nomination for a recognition

Nomination by Concordia University

Results announced in December 2021

University of Manitoba alumni association

Talking to Tiny People: The role of infant-directed speech in early language development

melsod@babylanguagelab.org

https://youtu.be/JExrbJyui28

Only the first half of the talk was about ManyBabies.

Blog Post discussing MB press releases

https://infantstudies.org/making-science-communication-more-open/https://infantstudies.org/making-science-communication-more-open/

Leidsch Dagblad/Leiden Daily

Newspaper article about Many Babies Consortium at Leiden BabyLab

Szilvia Biro, Claartje Levelt, Andreea Geambasu

https://www.leidschdagblad.nl/cnt/DMF20210528_11913356?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic

Theory of Mind in Toddlers – Toddler’s understanding of the intentions of others. A pilot study within the ManyBabies2 consortium.

Szilvia Biro, Iole Iacovidou

Institute for Education and Child Studies, Leiden University

https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3203698

Secondary Analysis of ManyBabies1: Examining Infant-Initiated Bids, Caregiver Inattention, and Fussiness During an Experimental Study

Yonsei Psychology Colloquium

MB1 and a spin-off project with Korean infants

Talk at CDS 2022 Pre-conference workshop: Big Team Science for Studying Small People

ManyBabies updates and research results

Casey Lew-Williams, Kiley Hamlin

manybabiesconsortium@gmail.com

MB2, MB3, MB4, MB5, MB-AtHome, MB-Demographics, MB1N, MB1L, MB1T

Talk at CDS 2022 for Symposium 11: Automated gaze-tracking and gaze-annotation for online studies of cognition and development

Cognitive Development Society

Validation of an open source, web-based, eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research on cognitive development: Comparison of anticipatory looking behavior in toddlers tested via web-based vs. in-lab eye-tracking

francis.yuen@psych.ubc.ca

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14xfGgnXRcYS24JddnP-2BLo61_ktub1q/edit#slide=id.p1

ManyBabies: How We Got Here and Where We're Going

Heidi Baumgartner
Grace Zhou
on behalf of the ManyBabies Consortium

part of MB poster symposium

ManyBabies Demographics: A Tool for Capturing Sociodemographic Variation in Infant Research

Leher Singh
Mihaela D. Barokova
Michael C. Frank
Diana C. Lopera-Perez
Paul Okyere Omane
Mark Sheskin
Melanie Soderstrom
Yang Wu
Francis Yuen
The ManyBabies Demographics Group

leher.singh.nus@gmail.com

part of MB poster symposium

ManyBabies 3 and 3-NIRS: Rule Learning in Infancy

Ingmar Visser
Andreea Geambasu
Claartje Levert
Melanie Soderstrom
Judit Gervain
on behalf of MB3 and MB3-NIRS

additional contact email: judit.gervain@parisdescartes.fr

ManyBabies Project Updates: MB1 (Infant-Directed Speech) Follow-Ups

Melanie S. Schreiner
Melanie Soderstrom
on behalf of MB1T, MB1L, & MB1N

melsod@babylanguagelab.org

MB1, MB1T, MB1L, MB1N, MB1A

Governing Board, Leadership Team

Casey Lew-Williams contributed info about MB1A

ManyBabies5: A large-scale, collaborative investigation of the Hunter & Ames Model of infant looking preferences

additional contact email: martincz@princeton.edu

MB entry for the UNESCO Call for Best Practices in Open Science

UNESCO Call for Best Practices in Open Science

nicolas.alessandroni@concordia.ca

Post-Doc, Governing Board

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Huj9MVqpDVZmBvr3yROweZtNibWPSyOHAIfFZgbk8Dk/edit?usp=sharing

Link to the call: https://en.unesco.org/feedback/unescos-global-call-best-practices-open-science