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Nivi Mani

@nivimani.bsky.social

Developmental psychologist and psycholinguist rolled into one, with generous servings of mom of two added on.

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Nivi Mani@nivimani.bsky.social · 7h ago

OK, well done to JECP for pushing through the publication process in 5 days. I literally just posted the updated preprint to find a manuscript with a doi 5 days later: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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NNivi Mani@nivimani.bsky.social · 5d ago

A null result, followed by two experiments - children trust external feedback more than their own (explicit and implicit) uncertainty judgements in information seeking. Out soon in JECP: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Wonderful work by Martina de Eccher #MSCAitn @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social

Laura Simone Lewis@laurasimonelewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am delighted to be a Guest Editor for a Special Issue in Animal Cognition on Curiosity in Animals (along with @victorajuwon1.bsky.social and @monteirotiago.bsky.social) We seek papers that investigate curiosity across contexts and taxa. Get in touch for more info! link.springer.com/collections/...

Curiosity and Information-Seeking in Animals

Curiosity, the intrinsic motivation to investigate and gain information, is fundamental to human intelligence. However, like other cognitive capacities that ...

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Nivi Mani@nivimani.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fascinating workshop organized by @gambichiara.bsky.social and @salonikrishnan.bsky.social - great talks and great discussions planning experiments in the afternoon!

Dr Chiara Gambi@gambichiara.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@salonikrishnan.bsky.social and I had an absolute blast yesterday running our workshop on reward in language learning! Many thanks to @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for support and to all our fantastic speakers! Recorded talks and slides will be available soon here: sites.google.com/view/reward-...

Candice Odgers@candiceodgers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

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RTG 2906 Curiosity@rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Another month, another paper! Our first cohort's doctoral researchers, Anne-Kathrin Mahlke and Shreya Venkatesan, have just published their latest findings. Dive in!

NNivi Mani@nivimani.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper from @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social: Can parents direct infants' attention using language in free-play interactions? The answer is a resounding no - infants just as likely to switch attention to objects their parent is or is not talking about during free play dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa...

SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction@sfb1528.bsky.social · 5mo ago

happy to announce a new paper by @richardvogg.bsky.social and MANY colleagues from our SFB (@uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social): They present PriMAT, our robust AI model to track different primate species in their natural habitates in the wild: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

PriMAT: Robust multi-animal tracking of primates in the wild

Detection and tracking of animals is an important first step for automated behavioral studies using videos. Animal tracking is currently done mostly using deep learning frameworks based on keypoints, ...

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Nivi Mani@nivimani.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper from @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social: Can parents direct infants' attention using language in free-play interactions? The answer is a resounding no - infants just as likely to switch attention to objects their parent is or is not talking about during free play dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Parent Speech in Free Play Is Guided by Infant Attention, But Organized by Object Familiarity

Successful coordination of infant attention and parent speech during free play supports infants' language development. Parents' responsive linguistic input reduces uncertainty in label-referent assoc...

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Nivi Mani@nivimani.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So very true - just had someone ask me to send them the stimuli from an experiment we ran 15 years ago. Not only did it send me down memory lane looking for the stimuli and what my lab was doing 15 years ago, but just the thrill that someone is interested in what I did 15 years ago.

Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

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Nivi Mani@nivimani.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New @sfb1528.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social publication. We show that mothers are worthy of the pedagogical assumption: they preferentially sample information that fills their child's knowledge gaps and children learn best from maternal sampling: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Maternal information sampling targets children's knowledge gaps

According to recent computational approaches, when children are presented with information by knowledgeable others, children can make the pedagogical …

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Nivi Mani@nivimani.bsky.social · 8mo ago

2 new papers: Madhavan et al study the dynamics of episodes of joint attention in caregiver-infant interactions. We find that infants initiate more episodes of joint attention and more often to familiar objects. Mothers follow infants' attention to label familiar objects more doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Egocentricity in infants’ play with familiar objects in caregiver–child interactions

Abstract. The current study explored the dynamics of parent–child coordinated attention to novel and familiar objects during a play session, to examine whe

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Alexander Ecker@aecker.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If you recently finished your PhD in ML for life science and are looking for a new job early next year, please apply! Göttingen is a lovely town and a great scientific environment.

Fabian Sinz@sinzlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

Fabian Sinz@sinzlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine

Audun Rosslund @audunrosslund.bsky.social · last yr.

Do older siblings help or hinder language development? And does it matter if they’re sisters or brothers? In our new paper we revisit the "birth order effect"... and took it a step further! w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social, Nora Serres and Natalia Kartushina 🙌 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library

Growing up with multiple siblings might negatively affect language development. This study examined the associations between birth order, sibling characteristics and parent-reported vocabulary size i....

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