Rodrigo Dal Ben

Biographic Data

ID1463549
NAMERodrigo Dal Ben
GIVEN NAMESRodrigo Dal
FAMILY NAMEBen
SIGNATUREBEN R D
AFFILIATIONSAmbrose University
ORCID0000-0003-2185-8762
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood

    Open AccessAdrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer et al.ARTICLEInfancy2024

    Measuring eye movements remotely via the participant's webcam promises to be an attractive methodological addition to in‐person eye‐tracking in the lab. However, there is a lack of systematic research comparing remote web‐based eye‐tracking with in‐lab eye‐tracking in young children. We report a multi‐lab study that compared these two measures in an anticipatory looking task with toddlers using WebGazer.js and jsPsych. Results of our remotely tes…

  • A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures

    Open AccessLachham Singh, Mihaela D Barokova et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024Cited by: 2References: 20

    Culture is a key determinant of children's development both in its own right and as a measure of generalizability of developmental phenomena. Studying the role of culture in development requires information about participants' demographic backgrounds. However, both reporting and treatment of demographic data are limited and inconsistent in child development research. A barrier to reporting demographic data in a consistent fashion is that no stand…

  • Speech Segmentation and Cross-Situational Word Learning in Parallel

    Open AccessRodrigo Dal Ben, Isabella Toselli Prequero et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2023

    Language learners track conditional probabilities to find words in continuous speech and to map words and objects across ambiguous contexts. It remains unclear, however, whether learners can leverage the structure of the linguistic input to do both tasks at the same time. To explore this question, we combined speech segmentation and cross-situational word learning into a single task. In Experiment 1, when adults (N = 60) simultaneously segmented …

  • Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

    Paulina Aravena-Bravo, Alejandrina Cristia et al.PREPRINT2023

    A survey of diversity in leading language acquisition journals revealed that only 2% of the 7,000+ languages of the world are represented. With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to this literature, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/). /L+/ was a free 5-day virtual school that facilitated the interchange of expertise among early career researche…

  • Bilingualism Affects Infant Cognition: Insights From New and Open Data

    Open AccessRodrigo Dal Ben, Hilary Killam et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2022

    Bilingualism has been hypothesized to shape cognitive abilities across the lifespan. Here, we examined the replicability of a seminal study that showed monolingual–bilingual differences in infancy (Kovács & Mehler, 2009a) by collecting new data from 7-month-olds and 20-month-olds and reanalyzing three open datasets from 7- to 9-month-olds (D’Souza et al., 2020; Kalashnikova et al., 2020, 2021). Infants from all studies (N = 222) were tested in an…

  • How open science can benefit bilingualism research: A lesson in six tales

    Open AccessRodrigo Dal Ben, Melanie Brouillard et al.ARTICLEBilingualism Language and Cognition2022

    Bilingualism is hard to define, measure, and study. Sparked by the “replication crisis” in the social sciences, a recent discussion on the advantages of open science is gaining momentum. Here, we join this debate to argue that bilingualism research would greatly benefit from embracing open science. We do so in a unique way, by presenting six fictional stories that illustrate how open science practices – sharing preprints, materials, code, and dat…

  • Combining statistics: The Role of Phonotactics on Cross-Situational Word Learning

    Open AccessRodrigo Dal Ben, Débora De Hollanda Souza et al.ARTICLEPsicologia Reflexão e Crítica2022References: 47

    Language learners can rely on phonological and semantic information to learn novel words. Using a cross-situational word learning paradigm, we explored the role of phonotactic probabilities on word learning in ambiguous contexts. Brazilian-Portuguese speaking adults (N = 30) were exposed to two sets of word-object pairs. Words from one set of labels had slightly higher phonotactic probabilities than words from the other set. By tracking co-occurr…