Social contingency and language development
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
This projects explores the origins of referential communication by analyzing the properties of parent-infant and parent-child interactions and infants' sensitivity to parents & contingent responsiveness. We use a combination of methods, including video annotation of video-recorded parent-infant dyads, eyetracking experiments, and behavioral experiments. The age range for this project is 9-36 months.
Role: For video annotation projects, research assistants conduct detailed annotations of a longitudinal video-corpus of video-recordings. This is a remote-friendly project that requires about 9 hours of commitment per week, and a 2-3 week training period.
For experimental projects, research assistants will be required to work in BELL lab space and code experimental data collected on an online research platform Lookit and on Qualtrics. There are multiple tasks involving data management, data coding. The time commitment is about 9 hours per week.
Qualifications: Students should have taken developmental psychology courses (at least an intro course) and should be comfortable with Qualtrics and Excell. Experience with R is preferred.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Elena Luchkina, Staff Researcher
Hours: 9-11 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: We have remote-friendly projects; work can be completed from any location.
Education, Cognition & Psychology