BITTSy
  • Welcome to BITTSy
  • Goals and capabilities
    • Rationale
    • What can BITTSy do?
      • Headturn Preference Procedure
      • Preferential Looking Procedure
      • Visual Fixation Procedure (VFP)
      • Conditioned Headturn Procedure
  • BITTSy Basics
    • Overview
    • Protocol files
    • Trial timing structure
    • Coding infant behavior
    • Randomization of events
    • Output
  • Setup
    • System requirements and recommendations
    • Visual hardware
      • Displays
      • Lights
    • Audio hardware
    • Hardware installation guide
    • Download & setup
    • Creating stimuli for BITTSy
  • Creating protocols
    • Overview
    • Starting definitions: SIDES, LIGHTS, DISPLAYS, and AUDIO
    • Optional experiment settings
    • Tags
      • Tags referencing files
      • Groups
      • Dynamic tags
    • Phases, trials, and steps
    • Selection from a group & randomization
    • Action statements
    • Step terminating conditions
    • Loops
    • JUMP
    • Habituation
      • Setting habituation criteria
      • Meeting a criterion
      • Successful and unsuccessful trials
    • Putting it all together: Example protocols
      • Preferential looking example - word recognition
      • Preferential looking example - fast-mapping
      • Headturn preference paradigm example
      • Habituation example - familiarization to a category
      • Habituation example - word-object pairings
      • Conditioned Headturn - signal detection
  • Running protocols
    • The user interface
      • Advanced settings
    • Live coding
  • Data output
    • Detailed log files
    • The reporting module
    • Standard reports
    • Creating a custom report function
    • Using report files
  • Support
    • Version release notes
    • Troubleshooting
      • F.A.Q.
      • Setup issues documentation
        • Audio settings and channel crossover
        • Display ID numbers
        • Video or audio playback issues
    • Resources
    • Report an issue or request help
  • Citing BITTSy in publications
  • Acknowledgements
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  • Grant researchers
  • Beta testing sites
  • Development team
  • Documentation and manual
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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, University of Maryland College Park

Elizabeth Johnson, University of Toronto at Mississauga

Ruth Tincoff, The College of Idaho

Kris Onishi, McGill University

Beta testing sites

Speech Language Acquisition & Multilingualism (S.L.A.M.) Lab, University of Delaware Primary investigator - Giovanna Morini Lab manager - Emily Fritzson

Tweety Language Development Lab, University of Arizona Primary investigator - LouAnn Gerken Postdoctoral researcher - Megan Figueroa

Language Development Lab & Canine Language Perception Lab, University of Maryland College Park Primary investigator - Rochelle Newman Lab manager - Emily Shroads

Development team

  • Kerem Atalay, programmer, 2017-2018

  • Nadiya Klymenko, programmer, 2018-2019

  • Jayan Kamdar, programmer, 2019-

  • Ed Smith, technical supervisor

  • Emily Shroads, project manager

Documentation and manual

  • Rochelle Newman

  • Giovanna Morini

  • Emily Shroads

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