# Acknowledgements

## Funding

The development of BITTSy was funded by **NSF BCS1152109**, "New Tools for New Questions: A Multi-Site Approach to Studying the Development of Selective Attention".

## Grant researchers

[Rochelle Newman](https://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/newman/rochelle), University of Maryland College Park

[Elizabeth Johnson](https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/psychology/faculty-staff/johnson-elizabeth), University of Toronto at Mississauga 

[Ruth Tincoff](https://www.collegeofidaho.edu/directory/ruth-tincoff), The College of Idaho

[Kris Onishi](https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/kristine-h-onishi), McGill University

## Beta testing sites

[Speech Language Acquisition & Multilingualism (S.L.A.M.) Lab](https://sites.udel.edu/slam-lab/), University of Delaware\
Primary investigator - [Giovanna Morini](https://sites.udel.edu/cscd/about/people/giovanna-morini/)\
Lab manager - Emily Fritzson

[Tweety Language Development Lab](https://tweety.lab.arizona.edu/), University of Arizona\
Primary investigator - [LouAnn Gerken](http://www.u.arizona.edu/~gerken/)\
Postdoctoral researcher - [Megan Figueroa](http://meganfigueroa.com/)

[Language Development Lab](http://langdev.umd.edu) & [Canine Language Perception Lab](http://dogs.umd.edu), University of Maryland College Park\
Primary investigator - [Rochelle Newman](https://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/newman/rochelle)\
Lab manager - Emily Shroads

## Development team

* [Kerem Atalay](http://kerematalay.me/about.html), programmer, 2017-2018
* [Nadiya Klymenko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadiya-klymenko), programmer, 2018-2019
* [Jayan Kamdar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayan-kamdar-4a3a09141), programmer, 2019-
* [Ed Smith](https://psyc.umd.edu/facultyprofile/smith/edward), technical supervisor
* Emily Shroads, project manager

## Documentation and manual

* Rochelle Newman
* Giovanna Morini
* Emily Shroads


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