Swinburne Babylab

We are a research facility at Swinburne University using innovative techniques to explore cognitive, social and brain development in infants and young children.

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Two new Babylab papers on children in virtual reality, both by @paolaraiza (and her collaborators @jordykaufman, @SwinEdTech, @drjbeaudry and Sharon Chen)! https://t.co/0QOlBV9cBj and https://t.co/cMpq5Tp6hL.

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Since @paolaraiza started her PhD with us in 2016, she's been working non-stop on children's learning with virtual reality. Her first paper on teaching water safety skills to kids through VR, a collaboration with @LifeSavingVic,
is now published: https://t.co/l2jRcWUveW

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

@RachelBitecofer I’m pretty she’s referring to this new research: New research from our collaborators in China. Gives a new take on screen “time”! https://t.co/v9gSgteIvH

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

New research from our collaborators in China. Gives a new take on screen “time”! https://t.co/v9gSgteIvH

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Worried About Your Kids’ Social Skills Post-Lockdown? https://t.co/NoIlI9o5Vu

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Great article by Swinburne Babylab alum, @_BrittanyHuber

[Brittany Huber, PhD (she/her) @_BrittanyHuber]

Hi, I'm Brittany. I love #childrensMedia and I wrote this with the help of Adrianna Ruggiero. #edtech #edtechchat

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Our latest paper on kids helping robots!
Investigating the nature of children's altruism using a social humanoi... https://t.co/5PyRPIkye8

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Stop worrying about screen 'time'. It's your child’s screen experience that matters via @TC_Africa https://t.co/5qOc6oxpk8

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

@paulbloomatyale Not that surprising. The title of the book is the free bit.

[Brittany Huber, PhD (she/her) @_BrittanyHuber]

@databrary for those at #srcd19 #osf panel discussion asking how to teach undergrads about open science practices? see @drjbeaudry's slides https://t.co/ZxZrtD1Cpz - a talk that has stuck with me and many of our @babyscience interns

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

We've been chatting about this in the lab recently! How children use the power of prediction to learn new words https://t.co/eKJe76bVWz via @blog_bold

[Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale]

Are you an undergraduate planning to go to graduate school in experimental psychology or cognitive science? Consider a summer internship at the Yale Mind & Development Lab! https://t.co/lTbaeuTyeT

[KathyandRo @KathyandRo1]

Really important work linking brain activity in mom’s and their babies during play. Congrats to @vickyleong and her team for this remarkable research!

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Congratulations to Dr @_brittanyhuber who was just awarded our School’s best PhD Thesis Award!

[Jordy Kaufman @jordykaufman]

Finally some good, clear, evidence-based reporting on what's known & not known about children's #screentime. Trigger warning to anyone emotionally committed to believing that screen time is definitely destroying children... https://t.co/mHFqZhrCdI

[TABLET Project @TABLETproj]

Is it wise to roll out a national social media intervention (#ScrollFreeSeptember) without any prior scientific evidence of its efficacy or checks for negative impacts? @R_S_P_H https://t.co/7pXQG2fdG0

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Find us at poster session 4 number 2 today. Evaluation of ELLA second language apps for preschool aged children. Pictures to come #ISSBD #ISSBD18

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Find us at poster session 3 number 60 today - Virtual Reality impact on cognition and emotions #ISSBD #ISSBD18

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Excited to have two poster presentations from Swinburne Babylab research at #ISSBD18

[Swinburne Babylab @BabyScience]

Playing an edu app doesn't hurt kids' executive function https://t.co/ZJsqLyrDe8
Thank you parents and children for participating - we're published!