The Baby Blog
A place to highlight new published findings, shine a spotlight on the researchers in our field, and share new tools of the trade that might help make life easier for ICIS Membership.
What do our participants really see during unmoderated remote studies?
by David Tompkins When labs and universities shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flocked to remote methods to keep their research moving. For many infant researchers, this meant employing unmoderated looking time experiments through...
Going the Extra Mile (or 1000 Miles) to Represent Infants
Lessons learned from implementing neurodevelopmental research in The Gambia, West Africa by Sam McCann Convenience sampling has been ingrained in developmental psychology since its inception. In fact, the very first researchers in this field used the...
Growing up in developmental cascades: A trainee perspective
by Joshua L. Schneider and Kelsey L. West The theoretical framework of developmental cascades has taken a firm foothold among infancy researchers. Indeed, it was the theme of this year’s ICIS meeting with not one, but two presidential addresses (Lisa...
Tips and Tricks for Maximizing your ICIS Conference Enjoyment!
by Jessica A. Sommerville Greetings conference goers! Believe it or not, ICIS 2022 is almost here. We share your excitement and trepidation in attending what might be your first in-person conferences since the start of the pandemic! If you are like us,...
Expect the Unexpected: Studying Language Acquisition in Small-Scale Societies
by Mireille Babineau, Katherine Jung, Myah Meleca, Shelby Suhan, Anicole Tan and Yi Lin (Elaine) Wang Although a large body of literature extensively studies language acquisition and factors that contribute to language development from infancy and...
Communication Beyond the Ivory Tower: Making Developmental Science Accessible to the Public
by Hallie Garrison Why get involved in outreach Developmental science has the potential to positively impact the lives of children and families by informing policymakers and practitioners. However, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners tend to be...
Supporting bilingual families around the world
by Laia Fibla, Jessica E. Kosie, Ruth Kircher, Casey Lew-Williams, and Krista Byers-Heinlein Baby Sophia hears Spanish from her mother and Catalan from her father. Baby Andreas hears English from his mother, German from his father, and French at daycare....
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Developmental Science: The need for a just beginning to support development
by Rachel Barr This month, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS) is featuring a special issue highlighting the work of some of our ICIS members, each of which has provided a brief review on an important issue regarding infant development and...
Help parents: An intervention strategy that infant researchers can all agree on
by Vanessa LoBue This month, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences is featuring a special issue highlighting the work of some of our very own ICIS rising stars, each of which has provided a brief review on an important issue regarding infant...
Using an eye-tracker to study attention, perception, learning, and memory in infancy: Be careful what you wish for!
by Richard Aslin and David Lewkowicz Automated devices for recording where you are looking are so common (even your smartphone can do it) that we forget how it is done, the potential pitfalls when applied to infants, and how to interpret the massive amount of...
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