Do bilingual children differ from monolinguals when learning new words? Monolinguals tend to start learning one word for one object, but surely this doesn’t hold for bilingual children, right? A brief dive into our latest paper with @mysia1.bsky.social : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More like guidelines than hard rules: Bilinguals accept lexical overlap despite using mutual exclusivity

Mutual exclusivity (ME), the tendency that young children have to select a novel object upon hearing a novel label, gives children a basis to select a…

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Happy to see the hard work of our students getting recognition! 🎉 Kudos to Akvile Sinkeviciute for her MSc thesis (!) ending up in the top10% articles in Language Learning, showing that bilinguals perceive colours differently depending on the language they engage in! doi.org/10.1111/lang... 1/2

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Young children usually understand more words than they can say: a “comprehension–production gap”. In a new study, we found that children with Williams syndrome (WS) have a unique profile: their gap is significantly reduced compared to other groups. 🧵 #LanguageDevelopment #WilliamsSyndrome #devpsyc

New paper challenging the didactic role of Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) We hypothesised that parents use IDS as a didactic tool by acoustically emphasising unknown words. Analysing 38k speech segments (182 parents of 8-18m olds) => NO evidence for a didactic strategy! doi.org/10.1037/dev0002077

My wonderful colleague Natalia Kartushina has a PhD opening to study the role of early accent exposure in children's cognitive and language development! Don't miss it! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Doctoral Research Fellowship in Developmental Psycholinguistics (286187) | University of Oslo

Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship in Developmental Psycholinguistics (286187), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, November 14, 2025

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Is anyone talking about the big design flaws in this study, e.g. 1) small N, btwn subject design, 2) v. heterogeneous sample, 3) writing prompt confounded with condition (really!), 4) vast number of measures with no preregistration? I can't believe this is getting so much press...

The Vigilant@thevigilant.bsky.social · last yr.

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

Our meta-meta-analysis is officially out! (w/ Molly Lewis, Sho Tsuji, @chbergma.bsky.social, @acristia.bsky.social, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social!) Estimating age-related change in infants’ linguistic and cognitive development using (meta-)meta-analysis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Estimating Age‐Related Change in Infants' Linguistic and Cognitive Development Using (Meta‐)Meta‐Analysis

Developmental psychology focuses on how psychological constructs change with age. In cognitive development research, however, the specifics of this emergence is often underspecified. Researchers ofte...

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My editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Forget just birth order for early language! (it's kinda U-shaped anyway...) We introduce a *better* measure (capturing more variance): a household "child-to-caregiver" ratio, where old-enough siblings are considered caregivers, rather than being another child competing for parental resources. 1/

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

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

Postdoctoral Research Fellow&nbsp;connected to "ICONIC" (277523) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow&nbsp;connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025

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One more week to apply for the Associate Professor position in Developmental Psychology! Great opportunity to join us in Oslo - academic freedom and easy access to nature... #DevSci #devpsy #openscience

Julien Mayor@julienmayor.bsky.social · 2y ago

*** JOB ALERT *** Tenured Associate Professor position in Developmental Psychology at the University of Oslo. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline: March 3rd, 2025. Please reach out in DM for details and repost widely! #openscience experience a plus! #DevSci #devpsy

New article! On a certain plutocrat invading our government to steal our future: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners

The Miners

The men who would strip the future for parts.

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We also just announced a position for artificial intelligence in psychology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... There were a few years that not much was announced, but things have picked up a little bit more recently

Associate Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychology (273074) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychology (273074), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 17, 2025

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Our department has just announced a new permanent associate professor position in developmental psychology, come join us at @uio.no! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

*** JOB ALERT *** Tenured Associate Professor position in Developmental Psychology at the University of Oslo. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline: March 3rd, 2025. Please reach out in DM for details and repost widely! #openscience experience a plus! #DevSci #devpsy

Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology (273166) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology (273166), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2025

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We're still seeking candidates interested in causal inference and/or survival analysis for a postdoc position in Oslo. Deadline January 31. Please apply or forward this to anyone who might be interested! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Four year postdoc position at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) (272144) | University of Oslo

Job title: Four year postdoc position at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) (272144), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025

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Further evidence (this time with consonants) that, from an acoustic point of view, infant-directed speech (IDS) does not offer infants with a cleaner signal! #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

Audun Rosslund @audunrosslund.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out! Following from our work on vowels and prosody in infant-directed speech, we turned our attention to features of consonants and their role in language development. Great collab (as always!) w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social, Nina Varjola and Natalia Kartushina 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

Interested in doing a PhD on language acquisition in Oslo? Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information! PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!

Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418) | University of Oslo

Job title: Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

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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...

Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz@laurasn.bsky.social · 2y ago

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"

Heroic effort collecting, processing and analysing this longitudinal dataset of infant-directed speech... Watch @audunrosslund.bsky.social space for more exciting results on how IDS relates to infant language development!

Audun Rosslund @audunrosslund.bsky.social · 2y ago

12 months of data collection, 317 lab sessions, 22,958 phrases, 54,594 vowels, and a gazillion supplementary tables later... proud to say that our longitudinal study on the acoustics of infant-directed speech is now out! 👶🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨Publication Alert!🚨 The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date. doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study

Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...

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Can't get enough of infant habituation designs!?💥 In our new paper, @julienmayor.bsky.social, Alex Cristia, Natalia Kartushina and I tested native and non-native vowel discrimination in 6-month-old Norwegian infants using eye-tracking. 👶👀 1/

Native and non-native vowel discrimination in 6-month-old Norwegian infants

In the current preregistered study, we tested n = 67 6-month-old Norwegian infants’ discrimination of a native vowel contrast /y-i/ and a non-native (…

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Clinical Researchers: I am here to warn you about a meteor hurling towards us. That meteor represents increasing scrutiny of clinical research; and in particular how we approach data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting. Prepare now, or face the consequences. 1/

🚨 New paper! 🚨 Myself, @julienmayor.bsky.social and Natalia Kartushina investigated the relationship between shared reading, screen time, and vocabulary size in n=1,442 Norwegian infants from diverse SES backgrounds. Spoiler alert: Get out those books! 📚👶 1/5

On my way to the Workshop on Infant Language Development - so excited that I realised I have my kids clothes in my luggage, except they aren’t with me on this trip… I guess the only thing to do is to go #WILD ? #parenting

Many thanks @chbergma.bsky.social and @helenahartmann.bsky.social for making the "big team science" panel discussion such a great event!

Christina Bergmann@chbergma.bsky.social · 2y ago

That was such a great event, thanks to everyone involved. And let me share here what was one of my closing messages: Why haven't you been part of a big team science project yet?

That was such a great event, thanks to everyone involved. And let me share here what was one of my closing messages: Why haven't you been part of a big team science project yet?

Julien Mayor@julienmayor.bsky.social · 2y ago

I cannot wait for your panel discussion on "Big Team" science! Join us tomorrow at NORRN's 3rd annual conference (www.norrn.no for details - and please ignore the automatic caption below saying "danish"!!!)

I cannot wait for your panel discussion on "Big Team" science! Join us tomorrow at NORRN's 3rd annual conference (www.norrn.no for details - and please ignore the automatic caption below saying "danish"!!!)

Christina Bergmann@chbergma.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tomorrow you might catch the wonderful @helenahartmann.bsky.social et moi at the 3rd annual Conference of the Norwegian Reproducibility Network: norrn.no I might mention @manybabies.org, and what brilliant timing, because later that day we hold a town hall to discuss the future of #BigTeamBabySci

🔵 Is blue always just blue? Not for everyone! 🤯 Lithuanian-Norwegian bilinguals perceive blue differently depending on the language they're thinking in. Dive into our study exploring the fascinating link between language and vision: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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