Resources

The Northeastern PINE lab has compiled a huge collection of helpful resources for students and researchers at all career stages. Check it out!

iCatcher

iCatcher logo - blue background and white icon of a circle, and then a smiling face inside the circle with a swirly hairstyle)
Gif of iCatcher in action, including video of a baby, a bounding box around their face, and arrows and a label at the top left corner indicating whether the baby is looking left right or away)

iCatcher is an open-source automated tool for annotating infant looking behavior from video. So far, it handles annotations of preferential looking (left, right, away) and annotations of duration looking (on vs off). You can choose one of three trained networks to run your data on, including a webcam dataset collected on Lookit. 

You can access the tool at: https://github.com/icatcherplus/icatcher_plus. If you have any questions or technical issues, please open an issue here.

For more information, see the following references:

Courses

Feel free to use course materials for other purposes, as long as you give proper attribution. Course materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Methods for Studying Infant Minds (AS.200.328, Fall 2023)

Reading list by topic (click to expand)

Being productive and happy in academia

Intuitive psychology and physics

Innateness, learning, and experience

Statistical tools and resources

fMRI methods, argument, and logic

Infant looking time methods, argument, and logic

General cognitive science