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Kibbe Objects?

Melissa Kibbe@levelsof.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our view (imo) best explains the infant data that we and others have collected over the past several decades, and contrasts with more "maximalist" views which posit a richer starting state for infants' object representations (i.e. Spelke objects). PDF available at philpapers.org/rec/KIBMOR

New from me and Alan Leslie! We got the band back together to lay out our view on object representations in the infant mind: non-discursive indexes that operate within a language of thought, & which get development of a more complex object concept off the ground www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Alpha rhythm determines speech perception rate? And speeding it up makes unintelligibly fast speech comprehensible? This is nuts! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

This is big. The first vaccine tested to PREVENT pancreatic cancer in high-risk individuals aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

How do children learn new words? Do they simply track word-object co-occurrences across contexts, or do they also use information about what speakers know and intend? With @mzettersten.bsky.social and @drbarner.bsky.social, I tackled this question in our new preprint! 1/🧵👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

New study by @knle.bsky.social and @mzettersten.bsky.social on how children use speaker knowledge to restrict cross—situational statistical learning!

Khuyen Le@knle.bsky.social · 3w ago

How do children learn new words? Do they simply track word-object co-occurrences across contexts, or do they also use information about what speakers know and intend? With @mzettersten.bsky.social and @drbarner.bsky.social, I tackled this question in our new preprint! 1/🧵👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Great content for my lecture on confounding variables.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Federal and state health officials are reportedly investigating whether Taco Bell restaurants played a role in one of the largest U.S. outbreaks of an illness that causes explosive diarrhea

Age is highly predictive of many important traits, & yet we know very little about when such knowledge emerges & how's it's acquired. Here @kostaboskovic.bsky.social begins this exploration, & finds that preschoolers make physical, social, & psychological traits from perceived age.

Kosta Boskovic@kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 3w ago

We know children make many inferences about others from their race and gender from early in development. But what about from their age, another highly salient and informative characteristic of people? We explore this question in a new pre-print with @drbarner.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Age is highly predictive of many important traits, & yet we know very little about when such knowledge emerges & how's it's acquired. Here @kostaboskovic.bsky.social begins this exploration, & finds that preschoolers make physical, social, & psychological traits from perceived age.

Kosta Boskovic@kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 3w ago

We know children make many inferences about others from their race and gender from early in development. But what about from their age, another highly salient and informative characteristic of people? We explore this question in a new pre-print with @drbarner.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps...

We know children make many inferences about others from their race and gender from early in development. But what about from their age, another highly salient and informative characteristic of people? We explore this question in a new pre-print with @drbarner.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps...

I wrote the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science entry on 'Intuitive Physics': oecs.mit.edu/pub/m27ympza... --- for those who don't know it yet, OECS (@oecs-bot.bsky.social) has accessible, informative, free, serious entries on many basic topics in cognitive science

Open Mind now has an IF of 2.9 after less than 9 years of existence, an amazing accomplishment. This is just short of Cognition (3.1)!

A brief history of Open Mind 2013: Dick Aslin was disillusioned with Cognition (Elsevier). Nick Lindsay (MIT Press) wanted to create an open access cognitive science journal Nick contacted Dick, and Open Mind started. Editorial, February 2017, issue 1 of Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

It feels strange to share good news, but: I’m moving to UCSD in July!! 🥳 I'm very grateful for my time at Princeton and SO excited for what comes next. We're building multiplayer games to study how teams are shaped by the problems they solve. If that sounds fun to you, I'm accepting grad students!

Someone has 3D printed a brain model - complete with activation lights! You can actually upload fMRI data and visualize the activations in real time right there on your desk! youtu.be/yNct2cJM9BQ?... #fmri #neuroscience

I made a BRAIN (with real data)

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The NYU department of psychology is also reinstating the GRE as a requirement for PHD admissions. I heard Yale and Harvard are as well. Now Penn too. If you are applying to psych PHD programs this year be sure to take the exam.

Daniel P. Moriarity@dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨University of Pennsylvania will be re-instating the GRE as a requirement for Psychology PhD admissions for the coming cycle 🚨

This paper explores how we reason about other people's minds when they make conditional statements, using some super creative methods cooked up by @ebruevcen.bsky.social. TL/DR, the inferences you draw about if>then statements depends crucially on the background knowledge of the speaker.

Ebru Evcen@ebruevcen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper w/Alan Bale & @drbarner.bsky.social in Journal of Semantics!🎉 We show in 3 studies that conditionals get strengthened to "only if" depending on listeners' access to alternatives, constrained by QUD & speaker knowledge, paralleling other forms of pragmatic inference. doi.org/10.1093/jos/...

New paper w/Alan Bale & @drbarner.bsky.social in Journal of Semantics!🎉 We show in 3 studies that conditionals get strengthened to "only if" depending on listeners' access to alternatives, constrained by QUD & speaker knowledge, paralleling other forms of pragmatic inference. doi.org/10.1093/jos/...

Conditional inference and access to alternatives: the role of QUD and speaker knowledge in conditional perfection

Abstract. Conditional statements often imply meanings that extend beyond their literal content, influenced by contextual factors such as the Question Under

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This paper explores how we reason about other people's minds when they make conditional statements, using some super creative methods cooked up by @ebruevcen.bsky.social. TL/DR, the inferences you draw about if>then statements depends crucially on the background knowledge of the speaker.

Ebru Evcen@ebruevcen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper w/Alan Bale & @drbarner.bsky.social in Journal of Semantics!🎉 We show in 3 studies that conditionals get strengthened to "only if" depending on listeners' access to alternatives, constrained by QUD & speaker knowledge, paralleling other forms of pragmatic inference. doi.org/10.1093/jos/...

For those attending @socphilpsych.bsky.social this week, I will be presenting work which follows up on this paper's findings, asking when children represent age chronologically, in Friday's poster session! Stop by and take a peak at this paper on your travels over :)

Kosta Boskovic@kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper with @drbarner.bsky.social out now in Developmental Psychology! Despite the importance of age in our social world, little is known about how children reason about it. Do children understand age as something distinct from size from an early age? 1/10 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Shingles vaccine may protect against dementia The new study reinforces similar findings from previous observational studies. Read more: ow.ly/5yFP50ZcjJ3

Age is correlated w/ lots of physical properties like size, facial morphology, etc., but it's not identical to them. How do kids come to understand it as a chronological process? @kostaboskovic.bsky.social explores the role of numerical cues in constructing a concept of age.

Kosta Boskovic@kostaboskovic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper with @drbarner.bsky.social out now in Developmental Psychology! Despite the importance of age in our social world, little is known about how children reason about it. Do children understand age as something distinct from size from an early age? 1/10 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Exp. 2: With this change, we found that children no longer showed a size bias. This suggests that young children differentiate age from size, and use size as a proxy for age only when more salient cues to age, such as facial morphology and numerical age, are unavailable or uninterpretable. 9/10

With these findings, we open a new research area with many exciting questions: When is children's understanding of age represented as time spent alive? How do children use age to make predictions about others? Ongoing work in our lab explores these questions, and we hope others will too! 10/10

New paper with @drbarner.bsky.social out now in Developmental Psychology! Despite the importance of age in our social world, little is known about how children reason about it. Do children understand age as something distinct from size from an early age? 1/10 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ⬇️ And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? 👀

Greg Woodin@gregwoodin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How precise are numbers? Our new article in Language and Cognition (with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social) finds that round numbers are used more approximately at higher magnitudes. (1/5) 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Kimchi fried rice Banh mi with TWO free desserts (cho pudding and tapioca).

David Barner@drbarner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A reflection on what I think may be the most expensive banh mi in the world (at around $35 USD with tax & tip), & maybe the best, but almost certainly the best vegan & gf version anywhere, that I didn't know was gf until after 5-6 when they insisted against my objections (pictured: $100 of banh mi).

If you study number and want a more standardized and convenient version for Give-N, consider using a digital task! New preprint 🚨 (with Kenyee Liu, Daniel Hyde and @drbarner.bsky.social): a digital Give-N task shows high knower level agreement with a physical version. 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

⭐️From Elizabeth Lapidow, Amberley Stein, Giovanni Thomas & Caren Walker: Young Children Use Causal Knowledge to Guide Question Asking

Young children use causal knowledge to guide question asking

Abstract. Question asking is essential for learning in childhood. But options for possible questions are nearly infinite. We investigate whether causal kno

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Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1