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Do children understand all types of visual media in the same way? "Cross-contextual diversity in children’s early understanding of visual media" - a new review paper led by Rebecca Zhu: osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Does cultural experience shape visual perception? New research finds "profound differences in visual phenomenology, with rural Namibian participants often failing to see percepts obvious to UK/US participants and vice versa." Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

🚨Paper alert 🚨 Need a social cognition task for measuring individual- and community-level variation? We are excited to share the TANGO-CC with you! 👀 Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2515... w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @patkanngiesser.bsky.social @kirstensutherland.bsky.social @elmanubohn.bsky.social...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

New paper in Psychological Review! In "Causation, Meaning, and Communication" Ari Beller (cicl.stanford.edu/member/ari_b...) develops a computational model of how people use & understand expressions like "caused", "enabled", and "affected". 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps... 📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor... 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Paper w/ Gergely Csibra now out in Psych Review! Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies? Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵 w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

submitted 98 days ago • 15 comments

"Methods based on infant speech segmentation, applied to 8 years of humpback recordings, uncovered in whale song the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language." Cool new paper by @inbalarnon.bsky.social, @simonkirby.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social out in @science.org. 🧪

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information? In @pnas.org, Luke Townrow and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

Very proud of Laura and collabs for this one! There's nothing as stimulating in dev science than being confronted with selective patterns of "failures", and this paper is no exception. The question of HOW infants set up a representation of helping as a second-order goal is far from being answered.

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New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Spätestens jetzt müsste allen klar sein: Wir müssen auf die Straße. Egal wo und wie viele ihr seid. Mit dem Link unten findet ihr was für eure Region. Ich selbst bin unterwegs und schließe mich der Demo in Freiburg (Breisgau) an. 🪧 www.demokrateam.org/aktionen/

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

submitted 30 days ago • 31 comments

To my German friends and colleagues who don't currently live in Germany, make sure to order your election documents so that you can vote. Thank you 🙏 More infos here: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/mitteilungen...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Interested in a Ph.D. in #CogSci (or know a student who is)? The Cognitive Science department at CEU is accepting applications to our Ph.D. program until Feb. 4. You can hear more about it in our new department video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTAt... Application: cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

so stoked to be back at #BCCCD25!

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The 2024 volume of the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology is now online. Take a look at the table of contents arevie.ws/3BdDdww

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Object substitution pretense reflects a general capacity to interpret objects as symbols: http://osf.io/kb8t9/

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Now published in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. This is a review of what we know, and what we don't yet know. In it, I argue that the origins of our self-awareness must lie in interoception, and offer some thoughts on how social interactions might provide a mechanistic link in infancy.

submitted 76 days ago • 13 comments

Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/laur...

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

submitted 89 days ago • 8 comments

Looking for developmental cognitive scientists? Look no further. go.bsky.app/MdqXgMy

submitted 100 days ago • 48 comments

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack go.bsky.app/9kHQS7i

submitted 101 days ago • 79 comments

Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

submitted 105 days ago • 71 comments

[Please "rebsky"!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary. Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 139 days ago • 3 comments

Looking for a PhD student interested in finding out what makes human cognition special, studying symbolic thought, compositionality, behaviour & 🧠, co-supervised by Paul Muhle-Karbe, Sarah Beck, School of Psychology, Uni of Birmingham Lab meetings in 🌳👇 reach out by 24/5 more in 🧵 Please share 1/n

submitted 283 days ago • 1 comment

Some news: I recently defended my dissertation (accessible at tinyurl.com/y76muv6m) and joined Azzurra Ruggeri's group in Munich as a postdoc! Looking forward to new adventures ahead :)

submitted 285 days ago • 1 comment

We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/ Please share widely! 1/4

submitted 413 days ago • 5 comments

👶🧠📈 A workshop on "Advances in infant neuroscience" is being organized as part of the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development on the morning of Jan. 4 and it's possible to attend online for free !! 😀 Please register via the dedicated website infant-neuroscience.github.io/getting-star...

submitted 422 days ago • 0 comments

First post here - sharing that our paper on infants' representation of third-party helping interactions is now published (OA) at the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology! www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 440 days ago • 0 comments