Lab meetings

Modified

April 8, 2026

Spring 2026

For the Spring 2026 Semester, we will meet on Wednesdays from 4:00-5:00 pm in room 444 Moore.

Psych 494 Syllabus

The Gilmore Lab Manual contains many useful instructions for onboarding new lab members, required training, and connect RStudio and Github.

Poster Presentation Opportunities

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Play Coding
  • 12/75 left to code by end of day 4/8
  • possible additional coding - until 5/1/2026
    1. Who wants to do this?
    2. How many hours do we want to commit from April 15-30?
  • What have you learned about behavioral coding? mother child interaction?
    • when entertainment is put on (e.g. TV) child stops playing with items, so touching, but no interaction
    • younger child lower time of object interaction
    • mom modeling time of interaction doesn’t seem to indicate child time of interaction
    • mom, more interaction with objects than child
  • future questions
    • where mom child object + transcription overlap
  1. RStudio
  • create .gitignore so data file stays private
  • create new quarto data file
  • Sections: About, Setup, Load Functions, Import Data,

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Play Coding
  • 25/75 left to code
  • Due Date will likely be pushed from 3/27 to 4/8

  1. Discuss Blumberg & Adolph (2023b) and possibly Blumberg & Adolph (2023a)

  2. Poster update

  • review progress at lab meeting 4/1
  • final abstract and poster must be uploaded on 4/6.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Discuss Hadad, Schwartz, Maurer, & Lewis (2015)
  1. Poster Update
  • submitted the application 3/17.
  • plan to fully complete within the next two weeks
  1. PLAY Coding project
PLAY Coding Status 3/18/2026
File Status # Files
Total 75
Completed 36
Remaining 39
Remaining/Wk 16.0
  1. Homework
  • Read Blumberg & Adolph (2023b) and possibly Blumberg & Adolph (2023a)

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Discuss Hadad et al. (2015)
  1. Poster Update
  • idea: present overall PLAY project
  1. PLAY Coding project
PLAY Coding Status 3/3/2026
File Status # Files
Total 75
Completed 43
Remaining 32
Remaining/Wk 11.1

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Meeting CANCELLED

Homework

  • Read Hadad et al. (2015)

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Discuss: McIntire (2026)

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Finish: EIFL (2018)
  3. Homework:
  • Read: McIntire (2026)

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Play Coding
  • 9 files completed to date
  • 9 files per week until finished
  1. Watch Video: EIFL (2018)
  2. Homework: Submit suggestions to Discord for
  • Poster Presentation Topics
  • Journal Club Articles

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Discuss Paper: D’Antonio et al. (2026)

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

  1. Attending
  2. Discuss Goals for this semester
  3. Update on PLAY Coding project
  4. Address any outstanding training
  5. Poster Presentation Opportunities
  • Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, is hosting its annual Spring Research Conference in the spring. Details not yet available
  • The Undergraduate Exhibition is April 20-22, 2026
    • February: application will be available
    • 3/17: application due date
    • 4/22: In-Person Poster Presentation, Alumni Hall, HUB
  1. Homework
  • Read: D’Antonio et al. (2026)
  • Submit potential papers for Journal Club to the general channel on Discord
  • Poster ideas for April?

References

Blumberg, M. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2023a). Infant action and cognition: What’s at stake? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, 696–698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.05.008
Blumberg, M. S., & Adolph, K. E. (2023b). Protracted development of motor cortex constrains rich interpretations of infant cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, 233–245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.014
D’Antonio, F., Flacco, M. E., Valle, L. D., Prasad, S., Manzoli, L., Samara, A., & Khalil, A. (2026). Prenatal paracetamol exposure and child neurodevelopment: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet. Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health, 0. https://doi.org/10.1016/s3050-5038(25)00211-0
EIFL. (2018). Paywall: The business of scholarship. The movie. YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAzTR8eq20k
Hadad, B., Schwartz, S., Maurer, D., & Lewis, T. L. (2015). Motion perception: A review of developmental changes and the role of early visual experience. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 9, 49. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2015.00049
McIntire, M. (2026, January 24). Genetic data from over 20,000 U.S. Children misused for “race science.” The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html