Developmental Psychology Studies Using Labvanced
Researchers use Labvanced to study infants, children, and adolescents both online and in the lab, from webcam-based looking-time paradigms with newborns to longitudinal cohorts tracked across years. The studies below are a sample of peer-reviewed developmental psychology research built and run on the platform, drawn from the full publications index.
Research Highlights
10-month-old infants were tested online in Labvanced on their ability to discriminate small and large syllable sequences, demonstrating the platform can run precise looking-time paradigms with infants this young without specialized lab hardware.
Reoyo-Serrano, N., Dimakou, A., Nascimben, C., Bastianello, T., Lucangeli, D., & Benavides-Varela, S. (2025). Crossing the Boundary: No Catastrophic Limits on Infants' Capacity to Represent Linguistic Sequences. Developmental Science.
89 toddlers completed an unmoderated online looking-time study from home in Labvanced, with the researchers citing low drop-out and high webcam data quality as evidence that online experiments work even with this notoriously hard-to-test age group.
Trouillet, L., Bothe, R., Mani, N., & Elsner, B. (2024). Investigating the role of verbal cues on learning of tool-use actions in 18- and 24-month-olds in an online looking time experiment. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology.
This head-to-head comparison ran the identical infant audio-visual synchrony task both in the lab and via Labvanced's built-in webcam eye tracking, finding no difference in technical issues or attrition between settings, independent, third-party validation of the platform's infant eye-tracking capability.
Banki, A., de Eccher, M., Falschlehner, L., Hoehl, S., & Markova, G. (2022). Comparing Online Webcam- and Laboratory-Based Eye-Tracking for the Assessment of Infants' Audio-Visual Synchrony Perception. Frontiers in Psychology.
Across two experiments combining tactile priming with dynamic facial-expression judgments, Labvanced (used offline) presented synchronized visual stimuli and captured accuracy and reaction times to compare how touch shapes emotion processing in adolescents versus adults.
Della Longa, L., & Farroni, T. (2025). Touching Emotions: How Touch Shapes Facial Emotional Processing Among Adolescents and Young Adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Testing younger and older adults on a demanding working-memory task, the second of two experiments was built in Labvanced and run on its ISO/IEC 27001-certified, GDPR-compliant servers, the kind of data-security detail that matters when recruiting older-adult populations.
Piroelle, M., Guette, C., & Abadie, M. (2024). The Role of Articulatory Rehearsal in Short-Term False Memories during Aging. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
More Developmental Psychology Research Featuring Labvanced
Others' requests may dampen the desire to do good: The effect of requests on children's prosocial motivation across five cultures
Skrobanek, A., Kanngiesser, P., Sunderarajan, J., Mantilla Salgado, J. D., Quimbo Yacelga, S. S., Itakura, S., Morita, M. M., Yamaguchi, M., Chernyak, N., Stowe, L. M., & Kärtner, J. (2026)
Developmental Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0002145
No Evidence for Agent−Patient Role Attribution in Human Infants, Human Adults, and Guinea Baboons (Papio papio)
Meewis, F., Barezzi, I., Hababou-Bernson, M., Fagot, J., Claidière, N., & Dautriche, I. (2026)
Cognitive Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70167
First Sounds of Emotion: Newborns' Sensitivity to Emotional Prosody and Its Relation With Maternal Depressive Traits
Silvestri, V., Polver, S., Morniroli, D., Giannè, M. L., Gervain, J., & Bulf, H. (2026)
Infancy
https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70087
From features to fluency: Predicting perceived speech fluency of preschool children for language proficiency assessments
Kany, V. (2025)
10th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE)
https://doi.org/10.21437/slate.2025-24
The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy
Grosse Wiesmann, C., Rothmaler, K., Hasan, E., Habdank, K., Yang, C., Yeung, E., & Southgate, V. (2025)
Nature Communications
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61642-z
A Pilot Study Exploring Elementary School-Aged Children's Knowledge of the Syntactic and Prosodic Functions of Punctuation
Ardanouy, E., Ryken, A., & Deacon, S. H. (2025)
Reading Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1080/02702711.2025.2523045
Social expectations influence perceived prosocial motivation in 6- to 11-year-old German children
Skrobanek, A., Grande, C., Schürmann, S., Wößmann, A., & Kärtner, J. (2025)
Cognitive Development
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101593
How language background influences the relationship between morphological awareness and literacy skills in monolingual and bilingual schoolchildren
Haase, A., Fares, F., & Schroeder, S. (2025)
Collabra: Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.142641
Transcranial Light Stimulation Improves Selective Attention in Children with ADHD
Zhao, Y., Li, Y., Zhang, K., Li, Z., Hu, Y., Tan, L., Jia, H., Wang, S., Gao, Z., Song, Y., Li, X., Zhao, C., & Cao, A. (2025)
medRxiv
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.18.25335086
Distributional learning beyond perceptual reorganization: enhanced discrimination in children and adults after bimodal training
Götz, A., Sensoy, Ö., Schwarzer, G., & Höhle, B. (2025)
Language Learning and Development
https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2025.2575383
Reaching Meaning through Language: What can Children Tell Us about Distributivity?
Saponaro, C., Carioti, D., Riva, M., & Guasti, M. T. (2025)
Journal of Child Language
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000925000224
Spelling acquisition in children through interleaved practice: The role of instructional guidance
Klimovich, M., & Richter, T. (2025)
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-025-00680-z
The socialization of visual attention: Training effects of verbal attention guidance in urban German children
Jurkat, S., Gutknecht-Stöhr, A. C., & Kärtner, J. (2025)
Developmental Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001746
When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono- and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words
Bleijlevens, N., Ciesla, A. L., & Behne, T. (2025)
Developmental Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13618
Evidence that altercentric biases in a continuous false belief task depend on highlighting the agent's belief
Speiger, M. L., Rothmaler, K., Liszkowski, U., Rakoczy, H., & Grosse Wiesmann, C. (2025)
Cognition
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.106055
Scrolling and hyperlinks: The effects of two prevalent digital features on children's digital reading comprehension
Krenca, K., Taylor, E., & Deacon, S. H. (2024)
Journal of Research in Reading
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12468
Adults and Children Engage in Subtle and Fine-Grained Action Interpretation and Evaluation in Moral Dilemmas
Blomberg, I., Schünemann, B., Proft, M., & Rakoczy, H. (2024)
Cognitive Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70012
From other-reference to a self-reference effect – Reversal of the classic memory bias in human infants
Rothmaler, K., Habdank, K., Hasan, E., Yang, C., Yeung, E., & Southgate, V. (2024)
PsyArXiv
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/my4jg
Touch and look: The role of affective touch in promoting infants' attention towards complex visual scenes
Carnevali, L., Della Longa, L., Dragovic, D., & Farroni, T. (2024)
Infancy
https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12580
Is helping always the preferred decision? Preschool- and elementary school-aged children's helping decisions in complex social situations
Schuhmacher, N., Rack, N., Beckmann, L., & Kärtner, J. (2023)
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology
https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2023.1278034
Social evaluation of co-action partners: Children's partner recruitment in cooperation and competition tasks
Titchener, R., Hermes, J., Fischer, J., & Keupp, S. (2023)
PsyArXiv
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c3gwu
Preference for native-accented peers in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring Czech
Jarůšková, L., & Chládková, K. (2023)
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2257189
Effects of a frontal brake light on (automated) vehicles on children's willingness to cross the road
Bluhm, L. F., Eisele, D., Schubert, W., & Banse, R. (2023)
Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.09.014
Infant cries convey both stable and dynamic information about age and identity
Lockhart-Bouron, M., Anikin, A., Pisanski, K., Corvin, S., Cornec, C., Papet, L., et al., & Mathevon, N. (2023)
Communications Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00022-z
Children infer the meaning of novel verbs through morphological bootstrapping
Golan, M., Shkara, M. A., & Havron, N. (2023)
PsyArXiv
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xk8eu/
Visual attention across cultures: Similarities and differences in child development and maternal attention styles
Jurkat, S., Köster, M., Hernandez Chacon, L., Itakura, S., & Kärtner, J. (2023)
Developmental Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13368
Pragmatics aid referent disambiguation and word learning in young children and adults
Bleijlevens, N., Contier, F., & Behne, T. (2023)
Developmental Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13363
e-Babylab: An open-source browser-based tool for unmoderated online developmental studies
Lo, C. H., Hermes, J., Kartushina, N., Mayor, J., & Mani, N. (2023)
Behavior Research Methods
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02200-7
Small-range numerical representations of linguistic sounds in 9- to 10-month-old infants
Benavides-Varela, S., & Reoyo-Serrano, N. (2021)
Cognition
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104637
Children's Learning of Non-adjacent Dependencies Using a Web-Based Computer Game Setting
Marimon, M., Hofmann, A., Veríssimo, J., Männel, C., Friederici, A. D., Höhle, B., & Wartenburger, I. (2021)
Frontiers in Psychology
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734877
Positive emotion enhances conflict processing in preschoolers
Berger, P., & Grosse Wiesmann, C. (2021)
Developmental Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13199
The effect of verbal priming of visual attention styles in 4- to 9-year-old children
Jurkat, S., Gruber, M., & Kärtner, J. (2021)
Cognition
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104681
Temporal Stability and Effect Dynamics Between Executive Functions, Perceived Chronic Stress, and Hair Cortisol Concentrations
Weckesser, L. J., Schmidt, K., Möschl, M., Kirschbaum, C., Enge, S., & Miller, R. (2021)
Developmental Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001193
The Development of Context-Sensitive Attention in Urban and Rural Brazil
Mavridis, P., Kärtner, J., Cavalcante, L. I. C., Resende, B., Schuhmacher, N., & Köster, M. (2020)
Frontiers in Psychology
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01623
Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults
Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., et al., & Rakoczy, H. (2021)
PsyArXiv
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x4jbm
Online Testing in Developmental Science: A Guide to Design and Implementation
Zaadnoordijk, L., & Cusack, R. (2022)
Advances in Child Development and Behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2022.01.002
Editorial: Empirical Research at a Distance: New Methods for Developmental Science
Tsuji, S., Amso, D., Cusack, R., Kirkham, N., & Oakes, L. M. (2022)
Frontiers in Psychology
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938995
Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: 6–12-month-old Persian- and Turkish-exposed babies
Hosseini, S. S. (2025)
Università degli Studi di Padova
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12608/100201
Hebrew Verb Morphology in Early Language Development: Investigating Infants' Preference to Morphological Forms
Landa, T. (2024)
University of Padua
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12608/79287
Often overlooked, experience at daycare influences the perception of conversational turn-taking in pre-verbal infants
Meunier, B. (2024)
Université de Rennes
https://theses.hal.science/tel-04495987/document#page=62
Is there a Relationship between Parents' Screen Usage and Young Children's Development?
Nguyen, D. (2024)
University of Plymouth
http://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/22045
Multitasking and video-based conceptual learning: a study with adolescents
Parisi, G. (2024)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/69839
Exploring Auditory Working Memory in Turkish Infants through the ADAM Game Experiment
Hamitoglu, A. (2023)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/58859
Does numerosity zero have a special place in the child's mind? A study
Forner, F. (2023)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/58131
A study on the relationship between the early markers of Joint Attention and Temperament in infants 6-18 months old
Obert, A. (2023)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/56343
What association exists between arithmetic and other early numerical skills in toddlers? A study
Galmarini, C. (2023)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/55374
Echoes of the Early Years: Investigating Auditory Working Memory Development in the First Years of Life
Koksal, B. (2023)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/55364
Monitoring early stages of development online: a remote study on Joint Attention
Vignoli, G. (2023)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/47553
eAdam: an online test for measuring auditory working memory in the first two years of life
Grasso, A. (2022)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/39994
Active Engagements During Infancy Support Cognitive, Perceptual, and Neural Development
Baek, S. (2022)
Princeton University
https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01m326m489b/1/Baek_princeton_0181D_14033.pdf
The pilot of a new adapted A-not-B interactive online task
Amirhaftehran, S. (2021)
University of Padua
https://thesis.unipd.it/handle/20.500.12608/29489
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