The broader goals of ManyBabies come together through collaborative projects. They can be Main Projects, Spin-off Projects, or Secondary Analyses.
Main Projects
Test a question about infant development of key theoretical or methodological interest. Numbered sequentially (e.g., MB1, MB2)
Spin-off Projects
Build on the methods or data from the main projects; e.g., extending the study to a different population of infants (e.g., bilinguals; MB1B) or follow-up data collection (e.g., longitudinal correlation with CDIs; MB1L). Identified with a letter following the main project abbreviation
Secondary Analyses
Conducted on publicly-available ManyBabies data. In some cases, may include additional data not collected as part of MB (e.g., if an individual lab investigates relationships between their lab’s MB data and other data collected by their lab)Projects
Empirical projects
MB1: Infant-Directed Speech Preference
Status: COMPLETEProject Leads: Michael Frank, Melanie Soderstrom
MB1A: Infant-Directed Speech Preference in African InfantsStatus: Data analysis; prepping Stage 2 manuscript
Project Leads: Alex Carstensen, George Kachergis, Angeline Tsui, Casey Lew-Williams, Michael Frank
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MB1B: Infant-Directed Speech Preference in Bilingual InfantsStatus: COMPLETE
Project Lead: Krista Byers-Heinlein
MB1G: Gaze Following in Monolingual and Bilingual InfantsStatus: COMPLETE
Project Lead: Krista Byers-Heinlein
MB1L: Longitudinal Vocabulary Follow-upStatus: COMPLETE
Project Lead: Melanie Soderstrom
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MB1N: Native Languages Follow-upStatus: Data analysis
Project Leads: Natalia Kartushina, Virginie Durier
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MB1T: Test-Retest Follow-upStatus: COMPLETE
Project Lead: Melanie Schreiner
MB1-Meta: Comparison to meta-analytic dataStatus: COMPLETE
Project Leads: Martin Zettersten, Christopher Cox, Christina Bergmann, Maya Mathur
MB1-Demo: Analysis of supplemental demographic variablesProject Lead: Melissa Kline Struhl
MB2: Theory of Mind
Status: Stage 2 manuscript has been submitted!Project Leads: Tobias Schuwerk, Dora Kampis, Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Frank
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MB2P: Pupil Dilation to Measure Violation-of-ExpectationStatus: Collecting data; Planning analyses
Project Lead: Robert Hepach
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MB3: Rule Learning
Status: Prepping Stage 2 manuscript for submissionProject Leads: Ingmar Visser, Andreea Geambasu, Claartje Levelt, Melanie Soderstrom
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MB3L: Longitudinal Follow-upStatus: Data collection
Project Leads: Anna Exner, Roberta Bettoni, Ingmar Visser
MB3P: Pupil DilationStatus: Developing analysis plan
Project Leads: Ingmar Visser
MB3T: Test-Retest Follow-upStatus: Data collection
Project Leads: Anna Exner, Ingmar Visser
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MB3N: Rule Learning using NIRS
Status: Developing processing/analysis pipeline; Preparing Stage 1 Registered ReportProject Lead: Judit Gervain
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MB4: Social Evaluation
Project Status: COMPLETEProject Leads: Kelsey Lucca, Francis Yuen, Kiley Hamlin
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MB4E: Emotional ResponsesStatus: Data collection complete; Piloting coding protocols/software to code infants’ emotional responses and posture
Project Leads: Francis Yuen, Kelsey Lucca
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MB4I: Individual DifferencesStatus: Data collection complete; Coding and analyzing data
Project Leads: YiYi Wang, Hilal Şen, Kelsey Lucca
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MB5: The Hunter & Ames Model of Infant Looking Preference
Status: Piloting; prepping for data collectionProject Leads: Jessica Kosie, Martin Zettersten, Casey Lew-Williams
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MB5-Meta: Systematic review of infant familiarity/noveltyStatus: Conducting literature review and coding articles
Project Leads: Anjie Cao, Katie Von Holzen, Martin Zettersten
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MB5N: Naturalistic InteractionsStatus: Study design
Project Leads: Brianna McMillan, Sana Fekrazad, Jessica Kosie, Melanie Soderstrom
MB6: Neonatal and Early Imitation
Status: Preparing Stage 1 manuscript; study designProject Leads: Sumeet Farwaha, Andrew Meltzoff, Elizabeth Simpson, Virginia Slaughter, Mark Nielsen, Rechele Brooks
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Methodological projects
MB-AtHome: Online Infant Data Collection
Status: Piloting and collecting data for Studies 1 and 2; Translating study materialsProject Leads: Lorijn Zaadnoordijk, Sho Tsuji, Katie Von Holzen, Helen Buckler, Rhodri Cusack
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MB-Demographics: Unified Demographics for MB Projects
Status: COMPLETEProject Leads: Leher Singh, Mihaela Barokova
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MB-ManyWebcams: Web-based Eye Tracking for Infant Studies
Status: COMPLETEProject Leads: Tobias Schuwerk, Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer
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Affiliated project
ManyManys1: Reversal Learning
MM1 Website: link Project Leads: Nicolás Alessandroni (ManyBabies), Laurent Prétôt (ManyFishes)New Projects
If you are interested in leading a new ManyBabies project (either a main project or a spin-off that would involve data collection across multiple labs), please check the project proposal form and/or contact the MB Governing Board.
Get Involved
We encourage everyone who is interested in developmental research to get involved! Access to infants/infant lab is not a prerequisite.