The broader goals of ManyBabies come together through collaborative projects. They can be Main Projects, Spin-off Projects, or Secondary Analyses.


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Main Projects

Test a question about infant development of key theoretical or methodological interest. Numbered sequentially (e.g., MB1, MB2)

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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

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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


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MB1: Infant-Directed Speech Preference

Status: COMPLETE
spinoff pinwheel icon MB1A: Infant-Directed Speech Preference in African Infants
Status: Preparing Stage 2 manuscript for submission
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB1B: Infant-Directed Speech Preference in Bilingual Infants
Status: COMPLETE
spinoff pinwheel icon MB1G: Gaze Following in Monolingual and Bilingual Infants
Status: COMPLETE
spinoff pinwheel icon MB1L: Longitudinal Vocabulary Follow-up
Status: COMPLETE
spinoff pinwheel icon MB1N: Native Languages Follow-up
Status: Data analysis
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB1T: Test-Retest Follow-up
Status: COMPLETE
analysis icon MB1-Meta: Comparison to meta-analytic data
Status: COMPLETE

analysis icon MB1-Demo: Analysis of supplemental demographic variables
Status: on hold

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MB2: Theory of Mind

Status: Stage 2 manuscript under revision
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB2P: Pupil Dilation to Measure Violation-of-Expectation
Status: Data analysis
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB-ManyTrackers: Evaluating Eye-Tracking Consistency and Accuracy
Status: Planning
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MB3: Rule Learning

Status: Stage 2 manuscript under revision
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB3L: Longitudinal Follow-up
Status: Data collection
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB3P: Pupil Dilation
Status: Developing analysis plan
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB3T: Test-Retest Follow-up
Status: Data anaylsis
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MB3N: Rule Learning using NIRS

Status: Developing processing/analysis pipeline; Preparing Stage 1 Registered Report
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MB4: Social Evaluation

Project Status: COMPLETE
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB4E: Emotional Responses
Status: Data collection complete; Piloting coding protocols/software to code infants’ emotional responses and posture
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB4I: Individual Differences
Status: Data collection complete; Coding and analyzing data
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MB5: The Hunter & Ames Model of Infant Looking Preference

Status: Piloting; Prepping for data collection
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spinoff pinwheel icon MB5-Meta: Systematic review of infant familiarity/novelty
Status: Conducting literature review and coding articles
spinoff pinwheel icon MB5N: Naturalistic Interactions
Status: Study design
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MB6: Neonatal and Early Imitation

Status: Preparing Stage 1 manuscript; Study design
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MB7: Curiosity

Status: Deciding on the concrete research question & study design; Input welcome!
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Methodological projects


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MB-AtHome: Online Infant Data Collection

Status: Piloting and collecting data for Studies 1 and 2; Translating study materials
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MB-Demographics: Unified Demographics for MB Projects

Status: COMPLETE
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MB-ManyWebcams: Web-based Eye Tracking for Infant Studies

Status: COMPLETE
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Affiliated project


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ManyManys1: Reversal Learning

MM1 Website: link


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.