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Tamis-LeMonda CS, Kachergis G, Masek LR, Gonzalez SL, Soska KC, Herzberg O, Xu M, Adolph KE, Gilmore RO, Bornstein MH, Casasola M, Fausey CM, Frank MC, Goldin-Meadow S, Gros-Louis J, Hirsh-Pasek K, Iverson J, Lew-Williams C, MacWhinney B, Marchman VA, Naigles L, Namy L, Perry LK, Rowe M, Sheya A, Soderstrom M, Song L, Walle E, Warlaumont AS, Yoshida H, Yu C, Yurovsky D. Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English-Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners. Infancy 2024; 29:302-326. [PMID: 38217508 PMCID: PMC11019594 DOI: 10.1111/infa.12571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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The valid assessment of vocabulary development in dual-language-learning infants is critical to developmental science. We developed the Dual Language Learners English-Spanish (DLL-ES) Inventories to measure vocabularies of U.S. English-Spanish DLLs. The inventories provide translation equivalents for all Spanish and English items on Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) short forms; extended inventories based on CDI long forms; and Spanish language-variety options. Item-Response Theory analyses applied to Wordbank and Web-CDI data (n = 2603, 12-18 months; n = 6722, 16-36 months; half female; 1% Asian, 3% Black, 2% Hispanic, 30% White, 64% unknown) showed near-perfect associations between DLL-ES and CDI long-form scores. Interviews with 10 Hispanic mothers of 18- to 24-month-olds (2 White, 1 Black, 7 multi-racial; 6 female) provide a proof of concept for the value of the DLL-ES for assessing the vocabularies of DLLs.
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, MD, USA
- Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK
- UNICEF, USA
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- Institute for Education Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA
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- University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Since grade school, students of many subjects have learned to "show their work" in order to receive full credit for assignments. Many of the reasons for students to show their work extend to the conduct of scientific research. And yet multiple barriers make it challenging to share and show the products of scientific work beyond published findings. This chapter discusses some of these barriers and how web-based data repositories help overcome them. The focus is on Databrary.org, a data library specialized for storing and sharing video data with a restricted community of institutionally approved investigators. Databrary was designed by and for developmental researchers, and so its features and policies reflect many of the specific challenges faced by this community, especially those associated with sharing video and related identifiable data. The chapter argues that developmental science poses some of the most interesting, challenging, and important questions in all of science, and that by openly sharing much more of the products and processes of our work, developmental scientists can accelerate discovery while making our scholarship much more robust and reproducible.
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- Rick O Gilmore
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, Databrary.org, University Park, PA, United States.
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Gilmore RO, Lockman JJ. Preface. New Methods and Approaches for Studying Child Development 2022; 62:xi-xiii. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2407(22)00011-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Observers experience complex patterns of visual motion in daily life due to their own movements through space, the movement of objects, and the geometry of surfaces in the visible world. Motion information shapes behavior and brain activity beginning in infancy. And yet most prior behavioral research has focused on how children process only one type, linear motion, leaving largely unexplored how children respond to radial or rotational motion patterns that co-occur with linear motion in everyday visual experience. This study examined how children and adults detect linear and radial motion patterns corrupted by a range of noise levels. Five to eight-year-old children (n = 25, 16 females; 76% White, 4% Asian, 16% more than one, 4% unknown) and young adults (n = 29, 15 females; 83.33% White, 16.67% Asian) viewed pairs of radial and linear motion displays mixed with random noise at one of two speeds (2 deg/s or 8 deg/s). Participants selected the display with coherent motion. Children and adults showed higher accuracy (percent correct) to radial versus linear motion patterns. Children had higher accuracy to the faster speed, while adults showed the opposite pattern. Adults showed better performance than children in all conditions. Exploratory analyses showed that male children had higher accuracy than their female peers. We conclude that motion processing develops in childhood with separable developmental trajectories for the processing of slow and fast visual motion, and that while further investigation is warranted, sex differences in motion processing found in young and older adults may begin in middle childhood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Yiming Qian
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
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Soska KC, Xu M, Gonzalez SL, Herzberg O, Tamis-LeMonda CS, Gilmore RO, Adolph KE. (Hyper)active Data Curation: A Video Case Study from Behavioral Science. J Escience Librariansh 2021; 10. [PMID: 34532153 DOI: 10.7191/jeslib.2021.1208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Video data are uniquely suited for research reuse and for documenting research methods and findings. However, curation of video data is a serious hurdle for researchers in the social and behavioral sciences, where behavioral video data are obtained session by session and data sharing is not the norm. To eliminate the onerous burden of post hoc curation at the time of publication (or later), we describe best practices in active data curation-where data are curated and uploaded immediately after each data collection to allow instantaneous sharing with one button press at any time. Indeed, we recommend that researchers adopt "hyperactive" data curation where they openly share every step of their research process. The necessary infrastructure and tools are provided by Databrary-a secure, web-based data library designed for active curation and sharing of personally identifiable video data and associated metadata. We provide a case study of hyperactive curation of video data from the Play and Learning Across a Year (PLAY) project, where dozens of researchers developed a common protocol to collect, annotate, and actively curate video data of infants and mothers during natural activity in their homes at research sites across North America. PLAY relies on scalable standardized workflows to facilitate collaborative research, assure data quality, and prepare the corpus for sharing and reuse throughout the entire research process.
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- Rick O. Gilmore
- Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania USA
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- Department of Psychology The Pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania USA
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Stoop TB, Moriarty PM, Wolf R, Gilmore RO, Perez-Edgar K, Scherf KS, Vigeant MC, Cole PM. I know that voice! Mothers' voices influence children's perceptions of emotional intensity. J Exp Child Psychol 2020; 199:104907. [PMID: 32682101 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The ability to interpret others' emotions is a critical skill for children's socioemotional functioning. Although research has emphasized facial emotion expressions, children are also constantly required to interpret vocal emotion expressed at or around them by individuals who are both familiar and unfamiliar to them. The current study examined how speaker familiarity, specific emotions, and the acoustic properties that comprise affective prosody influenced children's interpretations of emotional intensity. Participants were 51 7- and 8-year-olds presented with speech stimuli spoken in happy, angry, sad, and nonemotional prosodies by both each child's mother and another child's mother unfamiliar to the target child. Analyses indicated that children rated their own mothers as more intensely emotional compared with the unfamiliar mothers and that this effect was specific to angry and happy prosodies. Furthermore, the acoustic properties predicted children's emotional intensity ratings in different patterns for each emotion. The results are discussed in terms of the significance of the mother's voice in children's development of emotional understanding.
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- Tawni B Stoop
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16803, USA.
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- Acoustics Program, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16803, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16803, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16803, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16803, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16803, USA
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- Acoustics Program, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16803, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16803, USA
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Gilmore RO, Cole PM, Verma S, van Aken MAG, Worthman CM. Advancing scientific integrity, transparency, and openness in child development research: Challenges and possible solutions. Child Dev Perspect 2020; 14:9-14. [PMID: 33880131 PMCID: PMC8055047 DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Based on the recommendations of a Task Force on Scientific Integrity and Openness it appointed, the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) adopted a Policy on Scientific Integrity and Openness (SRCD, 2019a) and accompanying Author Guidelines on Scientific Integrity and Openness for Publishing in Child Development (SRCD, 2019b). Here we discuss some of the challenges associated with realizing SRCD's vision for a science of child development that is open, transparent, robust, impactful, and conducted with the highest standards of integrity. In identifying the challenges-protecting participants and researchers from harm, respecting diversity, and balancing the benefits of change with the costs -we also offer constructive solutions.
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- Rick O Gilmore
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
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- Department of Human Development & Family Relations, Panjab University
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Liu P, Cole PM, Gilmore RO, Pérez-Edgar KE, Vigeant MC, Moriarty P, Scherf KS. Young children's neural processing of their mother's voice: An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia 2018; 122:11-19. [PMID: 30528586 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Revised: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 12/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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In addition to semantic content, human speech carries paralinguistic information that conveys important social cues such as a speaker's identity. For young children, their own mothers' voice is one of the most salient vocal inputs in their daily environment. Indeed, qualities of mothers' voices are shown to contribute to children's social development. Our knowledge of how the mother's voice is processed at the neural level, however, is limited. This study investigated whether the voice of a mother modulates activation in the network of regions activated by the human voice in young children differently than the voice of an unfamiliar mother. We collected fMRI data from 32 typically developing 7- and 8-year-olds as they listened to natural speech produced by their mother and another child's mother. We used emotionally-varied natural speech stimuli to approximate the range of children's day-to-day experience. We individually-defined functional ROIs in children's voice-sensitive neural network and then independently investigated the extent to which activation in these regions is modulated by speaker identity. The bilateral posterior auditory cortex, superior temporal gyrus (STG), and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) exhibit enhanced activation in response to the voice of one's own mother versus that of an unfamiliar mother. The findings indicate that children process the voice of their own mother uniquely, and pave the way for future studies of how social information processing contributes to the trajectory of child social development.
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- Pan Liu
- Department of Psychology, Child Study Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Child Study Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Child Study Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Child Study Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Graduate Program in Acoustics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Graduate Program in Acoustics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Child Study Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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Widespread sharing of data and materials (including displays and text- and video-based descriptions of experimental procedures) will improve the reproducibility of psychological science and accelerate the pace of discovery. In this article, we discuss some of the challenges to open sharing and offer practical solutions for researchers who wish to share more of the products-and process-of their research. Many of these solutions were devised by the Databrary.org data library for storing and sharing video, audio, and other forms of sensitive or personally identifiable data. We also discuss ways in which researchers can make shared data and materials easier for others to find and reuse. Widely adopted, these solutions and practices will increase transparency and speed progress in psychological science.
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We recommend the widespread use of a simple, inexpensive, easy-to-implement, and uniquely powerful tool to improve the transparency and reproducibility of behavioural research - video recordings.
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- Rick O Gilmore
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.,
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
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Gilmore RO, Diaz MT, Wyble BA, Yarkoni T. Progress toward openness, transparency, and reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2017; 1396:5-18. [PMID: 28464561 PMCID: PMC5545750 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2016] [Revised: 01/23/2017] [Accepted: 01/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Accumulating evidence suggests that many findings in psychological science and cognitive neuroscience may prove difficult to reproduce; statistical power in brain imaging studies is low and has not improved recently; software errors in analysis tools are common and can go undetected for many years; and, a few large-scale studies notwithstanding, open sharing of data, code, and materials remain the rare exception. At the same time, there is a renewed focus on reproducibility, transparency, and openness as essential core values in cognitive neuroscience. The emergence and rapid growth of data archives, meta-analytic tools, software pipelines, and research groups devoted to improved methodology reflect this new sensibility. We review evidence that the field has begun to embrace new open research practices and illustrate how these can begin to address problems of reproducibility, statistical power, and transparency in ways that will ultimately accelerate discovery.
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
- Social, Life, & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
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The extent to which infants combine visual (i e, retinal position) and nonvisual (eye or head position) spatial information in planning saccades relates to the issue of what spatial frame or frames of reference influence early visually guided action We explored this question by testing infants from 4 to 6 months of age on the double-step saccade paradigm, which has shown that adults combine visual and eye position information into an egocentric (head- or trunk-centered) representation of saccade target locations In contrast, our results imply that infants depend on a simple retinocentric representation at age 4 months, but by 6 months use egocentric representations more often to control saccade planning Shifts in the representation of visual space for this simple sensorimotor behavior may index maturation in cortical circuitry devoted to visual spatial processing in general
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Gilmore RO. From big data to deep insight in developmental science. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci 2016; 7:112-26. [PMID: 26805777 PMCID: PMC5021153 DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2015] [Revised: 11/28/2015] [Accepted: 12/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The use of the term 'big data' has grown substantially over the past several decades and is now widespread. In this review, I ask what makes data 'big' and what implications the size, density, or complexity of datasets have for the science of human development. A survey of existing datasets illustrates how existing large, complex, multilevel, and multimeasure data can reveal the complexities of developmental processes. At the same time, significant technical, policy, ethics, transparency, cultural, and conceptual issues associated with the use of big data must be addressed. Most big developmental science data are currently hard to find and cumbersome to access, the field lacks a culture of data sharing, and there is no consensus about who owns or should control research data. But, these barriers are dissolving. Developmental researchers are finding new ways to collect, manage, store, share, and enable others to reuse data. This promises a future in which big data can lead to deeper insights about some of the most profound questions in behavioral science.
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- Rick O Gilmore
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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Gilmore RO, Adolph KE, Millman DS, Gordon A. Transforming Education Research Through Open Video Data Sharing. Adv Eng Educ 2016; 5:http://advances.asee.org/wp-content/uploads/vol05/issue02/Papers/AEE-18-Gilmore.pdf. [PMID: 28042361 PMCID: PMC5199018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Open data sharing promises to accelerate the pace of discovery in the developmental and learning sciences, but significant technical, policy, and cultural barriers have limited its adoption. As a result, most research on learning and development remains shrouded in a culture of isolation. Data sharing is the rare exception (Gilmore, 2016). Many researchers who study teaching and learning in classroom, laboratory, museum, and home contexts use video as a primary source of raw research data. Unlike other measures, video captures the complexity, richness, and diversity of behavior. Moreover, because video is self-documenting, it presents significant potential for reuse. However, the potential for reuse goes largely unrealized because videos are rarely shared. Research videos contain information about participants' identities making the materials challenging to share. The large size of video files, diversity of formats, and incompatible software tools pose technical challenges. The Databrary (databrary.org) digital library enables researchers who study learning and development to store, share, stream, and annotate videos. In this article, we describe how Databrary has overcome barriers to sharing research videos and associated data and metadata. Databrary has developed solutions for respecting participants' privacy; for storing, streaming, and sharing videos; and for managing videos and associated metadata. The Databrary experience suggests ways that videos and other identifiable data collected in the context of educational research might be shared. Open data sharing enabled by Databrary can serve as a catalyst for a truly multidisciplinary science of learning.
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Gordon AS, Millman DS, Steiger L, Adolph KE, Gilmore RO. Researcher-library collaborations: Data repositories as a service for researchers. J Libr Sch Commun 2015; 3. [PMID: 26900512 DOI: 10.7710/2162-3309.1238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION New interest has arisen in organizing, preserving, and sharing the raw materials-the data and metadata-that undergird the published products of research. Library and information scientists have valuable expertise to bring to bear in the effort to create larger, more diverse, and more widely used data repositories. However, for libraries to be maximally successful in providing the research data management and preservation services required of a successful data repository, librarians must work closely with researchers and learn about their data management workflows. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES Databrary is a data repository that is closely linked to the needs of a specific scholarly community-researchers who use video as a main source of data to study child development and learning. The project's success to date is a result of its focus on community outreach and providing services for scholarly communication, engaging institutional partners, offering services for data curation with the guidance of closely involved information professionals, and the creation of a strong technical infrastructure. NEXT STEPS Databrary plans to improve its curation tools that allow researchers to deposit their own data, enhance the user-facing feature set, increase integration with library systems, and implement strategies for long-term sustainability.
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Ely AL, Weinstein JM, Price JM, Gillon JT, Boltz ME, Mowery SF, Aminlari A, Gilmore RO, Cheung AY. Degradation of swept-parameter VEP responses by neutral density filters in amblyopic and normal subjects. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014; 55:7248-55. [PMID: 25257058 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-15052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To determine whether objective visual function, measured by swept-parameter visual evoked potential (sVEP), is preferentially degraded by neutral density filtration (NDF) in normal control and fellow eyes compared to amblyopic eyes, and to determine whether the response to NDF is a function of stimulus type, using grating and vernier stimuli. METHODS Monocular Snellen acuity and both grating and vernier sVEP responses were measured in each eye of 23 children or adolescents with amblyopia and 21 visually and neurologically normal children or adolescents. Acuity and sVEP responses were measured with and without a 2.0 log unit neutral density filter before the viewing eye. RESULTS Suprathreshold sVEP grating responses were more sensitive than vernier to degradation by amblyopia in the unfiltered state and to NDF-induced preferential degradation of responses from fellow and normal control eyes. For threshold measurements, on the other hand, vernier responses were more sensitive to degradation by amblyopia in the unfiltered state and to NDF-induced preferential depression. Threshold vernier responses of amblyopic eyes were paradoxically enhanced by NDF. CONCLUSIONS Neutral density filtration causes preferential degradation of both threshold and suprathreshold sVEP responses in normal control eyes and fellow eyes of amblyopes, compared to amblyopic eyes. The degradation is stimulus specific and dependent upon whether threshold or suprathreshold responses are measured. Grating responses are more likely to identify suprathreshold abnormalities, while vernier stimuli are more likely to detect threshold abnormalities. These findings may be used to optimize the stimulus parameters and design of future studies utilizing evoked potential techniques in amblyopic subjects.
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- Amanda L Ely
- Penn State Hershey Eye Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Penn State Hershey Eye Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Penn State Hershey Eye Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Penn State Hershey Eye Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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Visual motion direction ambiguities due to edge-aperture interaction might be resolved by speed priors, but scant empirical data support this hypothesis. We measured optic flow and gaze positions of walking mothers and the infants they carried. Empirically derived motion priors for infants are vertically elongated and shifted upward relative to mothers. Skewed normal distributions fitted to estimated retinal speeds peak at values above 20°/sec.
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- Florian Raudies
- Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A.
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Fesi JD, Thomas AL, Gilmore RO. Cortical responses to optic flow and motion contrast across patterns and speeds. Vision Res 2014; 100:56-71. [PMID: 24751405 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2013] [Revised: 03/05/2014] [Accepted: 04/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Motion provides animals with fast and robust cues for navigation and object detection. In the first case, stereotyped patterns of optic flow inform a moving observer about the direction and speed of its own movement. In the case of object detection, regional differences in motion allow for the segmentation of figures from their background, even in the absence of color or shading cues. Previous research has investigated human electrophysiological responses to global motion across speeds, but only focused upon one type of optic flow pattern. Here, we compared steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) responses across patterns and speeds, both for optic flow and for motion-defined figure patterns, to assess the extent to which the processes are pattern-general or pattern-specific. For optic flow, pattern and speed effects on response amplitudes varied substantially across channels, suggesting pattern-specific processing at slow speeds and pattern-general activity at fast speeds. Responses for coherence- and direction-defined figures were comparatively more uniform, with similar response profiles and spatial distributions. Self- and object-motion patterns activate some of the same circuits, but these data suggest differential sensitivity: not only across the two classes of motion, but also across the patterns within each class, and across speeds. Thus, the results demonstrate that cortical processing of global motion is complex and activates a distributed network.
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- Jeremy D Fesi
- Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, 687 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, QC H3A 1A1, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, 114 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, 114 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802, United States; Social, Life, & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States
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Beltz AM, Gates KM, Engels AS, Molenaar PCM, Pulido C, Turrisi R, Berenbaum SA, Gilmore RO, Wilson SJ. Changes in alcohol-related brain networks across the first year of college: a prospective pilot study using fMRI effective connectivity mapping. Addict Behav 2013; 38:2052-9. [PMID: 23395930 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.12.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2012] [Revised: 12/03/2012] [Accepted: 12/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The upsurge in alcohol use that often occurs during the first year of college has been convincingly linked to a number of negative psychosocial consequences and may negatively affect brain development. In this longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) pilot study, we examined changes in neural responses to alcohol cues across the first year of college in a normative sample of late adolescents. Participants (N=11) were scanned three times across their first year of college (summer, first semester, second semester), while completing a go/no-go task in which images of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages were the response cues. A state-of-the-art effective connectivity mapping technique was used to capture spatiotemporal relations among brain regions of interest (ROIs) at the level of the group and the individual. Effective connections among ROIs implicated in cognitive control were greatest at the second assessment (when negative consequences of alcohol use increased), and effective connections among ROIs implicated in emotion processing were lower (and response times were slower) when participants were instructed to respond to alcohol cues compared to non-alcohol cues. These preliminary findings demonstrate the value of a prospective effective connectivity approach for understanding adolescent changes in alcohol-related neural processes.
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- Adriene M Beltz
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Weinstein JM, Gilmore RO, Shaikh SM, Kunselman AR, Trescher WV, Tashima LM, Boltz ME, McAuliffe MB, Cheung A, Fesi JD. Defective motion processing in children with cerebral visual impairment due to periventricular white matter damage. Dev Med Child Neurol 2012; 54:e1-8. [PMID: 21232054 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03874.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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AIM We sought to characterize visual motion processing in children with cerebral visual impairment (CVI) due to periventricular white matter damage caused by either hydrocephalus (eight individuals) or periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) associated with prematurity (11 individuals). METHOD Using steady-state visually evoked potentials (ssVEP), we measured cortical activity related to motion processing for two distinct types of visual stimuli: 'local' motion patterns thought to activate mainly primary visual cortex (V1), and 'global' or coherent patterns thought to activate higher cortical visual association areas (V3, V5, etc.). We studied three groups of children: (1) 19 children with CVI (mean age 9y 6mo [SD 3y 8mo]; 9 male; 10 female); (2) 40 neurologically and visually normal comparison children (mean age 9y 6mo [SD 3y 1mo]; 18 male; 22 female); and (3) because strabismus and amblyopia are common in children with CVI, a group of 41 children without neurological problems who had visual deficits due to amblyopia and/or strabismus (mean age 7y 8mo [SD 2y 8mo]; 28 male; 13 female). RESULTS We found that the processing of global as opposed to local motion was preferentially impaired in individuals with CVI, especially for slower target velocities (p=0.028). INTERPRETATION Motion processing is impaired in children with CVI. ssVEP may provide useful and objective information about the development of higher visual function in children at risk for CVI.
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- Joel M Weinstein
- Department of Ophthalmology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
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Fesi JD, Yannes MP, Brinckman DD, Norcia AM, Ales JM, Gilmore RO. Distinct cortical responses to 2D figures defined by motion contrast. Vision Res 2011; 51:2110-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2011] [Revised: 07/15/2011] [Accepted: 07/16/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Pemberton Roben CK, Bass AJ, Moore GA, Murray-Kolb L, Tan PZ, Gilmore RO, Buss KA, Cole PM, Teti LO. Let Me Go: The Influences of Crawling Experience and Temperament on the Development of Anger Expression. Infancy 2011; 17:558-577. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00092.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hou C, Gilmore RO, Pettet MW, Norcia AM. Spatio-temporal tuning of coherent motion evoked responses in 4-6 month old infants and adults. Vision Res 2009; 49:2509-17. [PMID: 19679146 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2009] [Revised: 08/05/2009] [Accepted: 08/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Motion cues provide a rich source of information about translations of the observer through the environment as well as the movements of objects and surfaces. While the direction of motion can be extracted locally these local measurements are, in general, insufficient for determining object and surface motions. To study the development of local and global motion processing mechanisms, we recorded Visual Evoked Potentials (VEPs) in response to dynamic random dot displays that alternated between coherent rotational motion and random motion at 0.8 Hz. We compared the spatio-temporal tuning of the evoked response in 4-6 months old infants to that of adults by recording over a range of dot displacements and temporal update rates. Responses recorded at the frequency of the coherent motion modulation were tuned for displacement at the occipital midline in both adults in infants. Responses at lateral electrodes were tuned for speed in adults, but not in infants. Infant responses were maximal at a larger range of spatial displacement than that of adults. In contrast, responses recorded at the dot-update rate showed a more similar parametric displacement tuning and scalp topography in infants and adults. Taken together, our results suggest that while local motion processing is relatively mature at 4-6 months, global integration mechanisms exhibit significant immaturities at this age.
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- C Hou
- Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 94115, United States of America.
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Kaufman J, Gilmore RO, Johnson MH. Erratum to “Frames of reference for anticipatory action in 4-month-old infants” [Infant Behav. Dev. 29 (2006) 322–333]. Infant Behav Dev 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kaufman J, Gilmore RO, Johnson MH. Frames of reference for anticipatory action in 4-month-old infants. Infant Behav Dev 2006; 29:322-33. [PMID: 17138288 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2003] [Revised: 01/03/2005] [Accepted: 01/05/2005] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The spatial representations of 4-month-old infants were examined in two experiments using a modified version of the visual expectation paradigm (VExP). The experiments were designed in order to determine what spatial frames of reference were available to infants for making anticipatory saccades. In Experiment 1, we found that infants most often used a retinocentric frame of reference that did not take into account their current eye position in making an anticipatory saccade. However, Experiment 2 revealed that under certain conditions infants are more likely to make anticipatory saccades consistent with a body- or object-centred frame of reference. The main difference between the two experiments was the degree to which the featural properties of the stimuli varied. The results shed light on the development of spatial representations for action in infancy.
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Infant-control habituation methodology, although serving the research community well, has never been carefully analyzed. A main use is to equate infants in their level of habituation prior to experimental manipulations in a posthabituation phase. When studied analytically and with simulation, it is found to have serious difficulties. It inadvertently recruits infants with large variations in performance while discriminating against those with less variable performance. For nonhabituating infants, its Type I error rates can approach 1. A model-based nonlinear regression framework is proposed, which, because of large individual differences in infants, takes as the unit of analysis the individual infant. It is shown to be more powerful and efficient than existing procedures and can offer practical and theoretical benefits.
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- Hoben Thomas
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, 513 Moore Building, University Park, PA 16802-3105, USA.
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Although considerable progress has been made in understanding how adults perceive their direction of self-motion, or heading, from optic flow, little is known about how these perceptual processes develop in infants. In 3 experiments, the authors explored how well 3- to 6-month-old infants could discriminate between optic flow patterns that simulated changes in heading direction. The results suggest that (a) prior to the onset of locomotion, the majority of infants discriminate between optic flow displays that simulate only large (> 22 deg.) changes in heading, (b) there is minimal development in sensitivity between 3 and 6 months, and (c) optic flow alone is sufficient for infants to discriminate heading. These data suggest that spatial abilities associated with the dorsal visual stream undergo prolonged postnatal development and may depend on locomotor experience.
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- Rick O Gilmore
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.
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Recent evidence indicates that intellectual and perceptual-motor skills are acquired in fundamentally similar ways. Transfer specificity, generativity, and the use of abstract rules and reflexlike productions are similar in the two skill domains; brain sites subserving thought processes and perceptual-motor processes are not as distinct as once thought; explicit and implicit knowledge characterize both kinds of skill; learning rates, training effects, and learning stages are remarkably similar for the two skill classes; and imagery, long thought to play a distinctive role in high-level thought, also plays a role in perceptual-motor learning and control. The conclusion that intellectual skills and perceptual-motor skills are psychologically more alike than different accords with the view that all knowledge is performatory.
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- D A Rosenbaum
- Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
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Gilmore RO. The development and neural basis of representations for action. Infant Behav Dev 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0163-6383(98)91319-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The nature of the spatial representations that underlie simple visually guided actions early in life were investigated through the application of a 'double-step' saccade paradigm to 3- and 7-month-old infants. Saccades in the older infants, like those observed in adults, were executed within body-centered spatial coordinates that take into account the effects of intervening eye movements. In contrast, younger infants tended to respond according to the targets' retinocentric locations and did not incorporate the effects of displacements caused by previous saccades. These results indicate that contrary to prevailing views, body-centered representations for action are not present from birth but emerge, probably through experience, over the first few months of life.
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- R O Gilmore
- Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Gilmore RO, Tucker LA, Minister SL, Johnson MH. Vector summation in young infants' saccade planning. Infant Behav Dev 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0163-6383(96)90529-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Gilmore RO, Tucker LA, Johnson MH. Spatial frames of reference in young infants' saccades. Infant Behav Dev 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0163-6383(96)90530-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The capacity of 6-month-old infants to maintain information in working memory for several seconds was studied using two versions of an oculomotor delayed response task. Infants were presented with either a cue stimulus in a target location (Experiment 1), or an abstract, central stimulus (Experiment 2) which could be used to predict the peripheral location in which an attractive target stimulus subsequently appeared. Eye movements during delay periods from 600 to 5000 ms were recorded. The results indicated that infants maintained information about stimulus locations in working memory for 3-5 s. These results imply maturity of regions of the prefrontal cortex closely associated with a similar task used in neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies.
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- R O Gilmore
- Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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