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The name is a recursive acronym for the babex (pronounced Bay-Beks) system, feel free to end the recursion by accepting the alternative name Baby Experiment system.
In the UiL OTS laboratories we use to invite young infants to studies in which we examine infants reaction to exposure to linguistic stimuli. Children are gifted to acquire languages of any kind spoken in the world. The ability to understand speech grows as they grow older. On the other hand, when humans mature, they lose some of the abilities to learn to speak a language natively, and their minds are getting accustomed to one specific language. This results in the fact we would like to study children in an experiment at a very specific age.
The main participant in a baby language experiment is the infant, who typically comes along with her/his parents. For some (longitudinal) experiments the infant is invited multiple times for one specific experiment/or a related experiment. The experimenters who run the experiment, and help scheduling the experimental session. Finally, a bit unrelated to an experiment are system administrators that maintain the infrastructure of the lab and websites. Infants are added to the system in order to check whether they meet the characteristics that are required for an experiment.
A given experiment is carried out for infants meeting certain characteristics, such as age, native language or other variables. An experiment has some kind of name and is ran in a given lab e.g. the babylab, baby EEG lab, or the baby eyetracking lab. Only certain experimenters may be assigned to one experiment because an experiment might require some training of the experimenter.
The babylab has a agenda, in the agenda time slots can be booked. A booking consist of a suitable participant, a researcher and a lab. The agenda helps with assigning children that meet the requirements of a experiment e.g. they are at the moment of testing not to old/young for an experiment. In summary the agenda helps to make sure that the lab is available and there is some researcher present to conduct the experiment session.
The babex system helps experimenters to conduct an experiment by making it relatively easy to plan experimental session with an infant, lab and researcher available.