We’re back with episode 2 of “A Conversation with a Future Luminary”! Jenna talks with UMass Boston graduate students, @ckoolh.bsky.social and @quinnpham.bsky.social about time management, working memory, episodic future thinking, collecting data in museums, and much more! itsinnate.fireside.fm/45

A conversation with future luminaries #2: Candice Koolhaas and Quinn Pham

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An inspiring conversation! But also a mystery... Give it a listen and find out what crime was committed!

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New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Brown Professor Dave Sobel about the blicket detector, poetry, early-life tragedy, and even his early life of “crime.” 😂 Plus, we chatted about his recent Psychological Review paper on reach tracking and inhibitory control in children. itsinnate.fireside.fm/44

So lovely to chat with my former postdoc mentor and to learn some new things about him! ;-)

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · last mo.

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Brown Professor Dave Sobel about the blicket detector, poetry, early-life tragedy, and even his early life of “crime.” 😂 Plus, we chatted about his recent Psychological Review paper on reach tracking and inhibitory control in children. itsinnate.fireside.fm/44

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Brown Professor Dave Sobel about the blicket detector, poetry, early-life tragedy, and even his early life of “crime.” 😂 Plus, we chatted about his recent Psychological Review paper on reach tracking and inhibitory control in children. itsinnate.fireside.fm/44

Staying ahead of the curv[ature deviance] (with Dave Sobel)

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New ep! 🚨 We’re kicking off our new series, “A Conversation with a Future Luminary,” hosted by @jennadistefano.bsky.social, spotlighting grad student life and research. First up: Rachel Foster on grad school, sociocultural influences on delay of gratification, and more! itsinnate.fireside.fm/43

The ultimate delay of gratification test? Graduate school.

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In case you missed it, we released another episode! In it, we chat with Professor Tamar Kushnir -- Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University -- about children's beliefs about others' belief change, among other things. Check it out, yeah? itsinnate.fireside.fm/42

Change starts with believing that things can be different (with Tamar Kushnir)

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New ep! 🚨 Prof. Tamar Kushnir talks about her academic path & training alongside some of cognitive science’s biggest names such as Prof. Alison Gopnik. Then we chat about her latest third-person belief-revision paper & debate whether associative learning can explain it. itsinnate.fireside.fm/42

Change starts with believing that things can be different (with Tamar Kushnir)

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We look forward to our conversation tomorrow with Professor Tamar Kushnir about her journey and latest work published in Cognition on children's beliefs about rational belief revision in others (co-authors: Drs. Pearl Han Li pearlhanli.bsky.social and Laura Soterlaurasoter.bsky.social)!

Laura Soter (@laurasoter.bsky.social)

philosophy prof @ YorkU

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Had fun chatting with Deon about the work my lab does, and the journey to get there!

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New ep! 🚨 Deon chatted with Dr. Ryan Lei (ryanlei.bsky.social) about his academic journey, his work on intersectionality & intersectional invisibility, & SLACs. Plus, we discuss how race impacts kid's gender categorizations. And of course, plenty of mechanism talk! itsinnate.fireside.fm/41

New ep! 🚨 Deon chatted with Dr. Ryan Lei (ryanlei.bsky.social) about his academic journey, his work on intersectionality & intersectional invisibility, & SLACs. Plus, we discuss how race impacts kid's gender categorizations. And of course, plenty of mechanism talk! itsinnate.fireside.fm/41

"Friends / ones (our social cognition) can depend on" (with Ryan Lei)

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Interested in SLACs? The difference between them & R1s? Intersectionality prototype development? Then you're in for a treat! Tomorrow we get to chat with the inimitable Dr. Ryan Lei (ryanlei.bsky.social) about these very things! Jenny is away, so Deon will be flying solo for this one. Stay tuned!

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New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Dr. Shari Liu (shariliu.bsky.social) about her recent Nature Reviews Psychology paper. How do infants make sense of other people's minds? According to Shari, part of the answer lies in understanding the physical world. itsinnate.fireside.fm/40

Mind o̶v̶e̶r̶ Matter? (with Shari Liu)

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We are SO excited to chat with Dr. Shari Liu (@shariliu.bsky.social) about her scientific journey and, most importantly, about her recent Nature Reviews paper entitled "How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world"!

In case you missed our latest episode, check it out below!

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW EPISODE 🚨 Part II is here! Jenny & Deon continue their discussion of Bayesian models and number cognition, including how Lee and Sarnecka used the same Bayesian model to test two competing theories of how children acquire number knowledge. itsinnate.fireside.fm/39

NEW EPISODE 🚨 Part II is here! Jenny & Deon continue their discussion of Bayesian models and number cognition, including how Lee and Sarnecka used the same Bayesian model to test two competing theories of how children acquire number knowledge. itsinnate.fireside.fm/39

Give-N you Bayes and Backpropagation (Pt. II)

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New ep! 🚨 In Part I of this 2-part episode, Jenny & Deon discuss connectionist modeling, developmental change, developmental tasks, one-hot vs. distributed representations, the give-N task, Bayesian models, Marr’s levels, & more. Stay tuned for Part II! itsinnate.fireside.fm/38

Give-N you Bayes and Backpropagation (Pt. I)

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The fun continues! In an upcoming episode, Jenny and Deon discuss connectionist modeling, then dive into Lee & Sarnecka (2010), their Bayesian model of the give-N task, and what a more mechanistically-oriented (in Marr's algorithm sense) connectionist version might look like

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with our editor Jenna's PI, Dr. Katie Graf Estes, about her academic journey, mentorship, and dealing with failure. We also discuss her Psych Science paper, "Can Infants Map Meaning to Newly Segmented Words?: Statistical Segmentation and Word Learning." itsinnate.fireside.fm/37

From statistics to meaning (with Katie Graf Estes)

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The pleasure, truly, was ours!

Viridiana L. Benitez@viribeni.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This conversation was SO much fun! Thank you for the opportunity to talk about my journey and work! @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Dr. Viridiana Benitez (viribeni.bsky.social) about her academic journey and mentorship. We also discuss her Current Biology paper, “Predictable Events Enhance Word Learning in Toddlers,” as well as her work on predictability and bilingualism. itsinnate.fireside.fm/36

The goldilocks of predicability (with Viridiana Benitez)

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New ep! 🚨 We chat with Dr. Richard Prather (pratherlab.bsky.social) about his path into cognitive science, numerical development, & computational modeling—plus a deep dive into why the field needs a more 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 approach & what that actually means for researchers today. itsinnate.fireside.fm/35

A 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 take on the cognitive sciences (with Richard Prather)

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Education Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge!

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We're looking forward to our conversation tomorrow with Dr. Richard Prather (pratherlab.bsky.social) about what it means to apply a critical approach to the cognitive sciences and to releasing the episode shortly thereafter! Don't forget to let us know who you'd like to hear from next!

A little teaser of upcoming guests: 🎉Dr. Richard Prather -- addressing the "homogenous samples" fallacy (pratherlab.bsky.social) 🎉Dr. Viridiana Benitez (viribeni.bsky.social) -- infant statistical learning 🎉Dr. Alessandra Geraci -- innate socio evaluation & sensitivity to ostensive pointing

New ep! 🚨 In the first half, they discuss Jenny’s recent paper showing that children’s number estimates can be influenced by the gender of the person providing the estimate. In the second half, they talk about Deon's recent paper examining children's causal judgements. itsinnate.fireside.fm/34

"There are only so many experiments one can do!"

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New ep! 🚨 In it, we introduce a new member of our team — Jenna DiStefano (@jennadistefano.bsky.social) — and chat with her about her work — how Infant Directed Speech varies across context. With Jenna as our editor, we may *finally* be able to release episodes regularly! itsinnate.fireside.fm/33

Finding common ground (with Jenna DiStefano)

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We're ecstatic to be talking today with Dr. Vlad Ayzenberg (‪@vayzenb.bsky.social‬) about his recent paper in Science Advances exploring the mechanisms that underpin object recognition in young children and adults. Stay tuned!

🚨 New ep! We talk w/ Professor Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) about her dev sci path, training w/ legends (Woodward, Wynn, Bloom, Santos), & her Nature Comms paper showing 5-day-olds prefer helpers over hinderers. Plus: reconciling ManyBabies & replication woes. itsinnate.fireside.fm/31

Moral kombat (with Kiley Hamlin)

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Want to know what makes today so special?! We get to chat with the inimitable Professor Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) about her science journey, her recent paper in Nature Communications showing that sociomoral evaluation may be innate, and more! Stay tuned for the episode!