How do young children predict what comes next in speech? Our study of bilingual Mandarin-English and monolingual English-learning children in Singapore highlights how language experience shapes real-time processing—and why diverse samples matter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Predictive Sentence Parsing in Monolingual and Bilingual Learners

There is now substantial empirical support for incremental models of speech processing where language is processed in real-time as it unfolds. Developmental studies indicate that very young children ....

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Excited to be editing a Developmental Science special issue on Culture, Context, and Brain Development with Heather Bortfeld, Laura Katus, and Bruce Rawlings. Seeking papers from diverse contexts using novel approaches! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Please share!

Developmental Science Call for Papers Culture, context, and brain development

Developmental Science is an international journal publishing contemporary scientific developmental psychology and developmental cognitive neuroscience research.

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Excited to be a part of this conversation by APS on power and privilege in Psychology depts. The event is aimed at early career scholars.

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · last mo.

@lehersingh.bsky.social, @sakshighai.bsky.social, @daudivanveen.nl, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

Fun new collab coming out in TICS (w/ Haley Weaver & Sudha Arunachalam) digging into the assumptions underlying the use of eye-gaze methods to study vocabulary development. Working on this paper really got us thinking - we hope it does the same for our readers! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking forward: eye-gaze methods in vocabulary development research

Human multimodal processing abilities have provided researchers with an invaluable set of methods for interrogating language understanding. Even young…

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This was one of the most enjoyable collabs I've had. Grateful for any and all feedback.

Mike Frank@mcxfrank.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For a year and a half, @carorowland.bsky.social, @lehersingh.bsky.social, Marisa Casillas, Shanley Allen, and I have been meeting to discuss whether innateness is still a useful concept to think about in studying language acquisition. Here's our take: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to join this wonderful panel of editors for an APA webinar on aspiring to a more global psychological science.

Appreciate the invitation from APS to write about cultural belonging in academic departments.

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“What is required instead is an intentional reorientation of departmental culture—one that moves beyond aspirational commitments to equity and toward practices that actively align ideals, policies, and norms,” says @lehersingh.bsky.social, professor and chair of #psychology at UMBC. #AcademicSky

Sharing a new article aimed at students and early career scholars on how to do a good peer review in developmental psychology. We offer a framework for a good peer review and suggestions on how to navigate challenges, including AI. The article is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What can infant research tell us (and not tell us) about human universals? Happy to share a new paper in Child Development Perspectives on this question. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

What infant research can—and cannot—tell us about human universals

Abstract. The search for human universals—capacities thought to be shared across human species—is often associated with the study of infancy. Infants are v

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#BUCLD50 Symposium: “Innateness is not a dirty word: Reframing the origins of language development”, by Shanley Allen, Marisa Casillas, Alejandrina Cristia, Michael C. Frank, Caroline Rowland, Leher Singh, and Paul Bloom! Learn more at: www.bu.edu/bucld/ #Innateness #LLM #LanguageDevelopment

Curious / terrified about peer review? We are here to help! Join @mariamaly.bsky.social and I October 30th!

Mariam Aly@mariamaly.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

@psychscience.bsky.social Submission site for Barcelona 2026 opens Oct. 30th!!! Join us in Spain for the first APS to be held outside the U.S. Many new ways to interact and to share psychological research being done around the world. www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

It was a privilege to collaborate on this significant undertaking on open science in the developing world, under the leadership of Hu Chuan-Peng. The paper is now out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Open Science in the Developing World: A Collection of Practical Guides for Researchers in Developing Countries - Hu Chuan-Peng, Zhiqi Xu, Aleksandra Lazić, Piyali Bhattacharya, Leonardo Seda, Samiul H...

Over the past decade, the open-science movement has transformed the research landscape, although its impact has largely been confined to developed countries. Re...

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Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing". srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) What is LEVANTE? 🧵

Please join @shaunacooper.bsky.social @lehersingh.bsky.social S. Arunachalam, V. Raval & me this Wednesday!

Reviewer Zero@reviewerzero.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We're so excited to host this editor community conversation THIS WEEK! There's still time to register here: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Delighted that Sakshi Ghai's efforts in leading this manifesto are recognised by @improvingpsych.org! @sakshighai.bsky.social @lehersingh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology

Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · last yr.

We are very pleased to announce the 2025 Awards Winners for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/rzTeLYL

How can developmental science journals promote equity, transparency, and shared responsibility? Join us August 13, 2pm ET, for “Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation” tinyurl.com/DevEditors @lehersingh.bsky.social ‪@mattgoldrick.bsky.social

Check out this awesome new paper about #OpenScience in developing countries! Paper is forthcoming at AMPPS- very proud that we can promote this work. Congrats to the large and international authorship team, and esp @hcp4715.bsky.social for leading the charge. @psychscience.bsky.social

Hu Chuan-Peng@hcp4715.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE! Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers. *(1/4)*

Very sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...

LouAnn Gerken Obituary (1959 - 2025) - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Daily Star

View LouAnn A. Gerken's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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Developmental Science is looking for new Associate Editors. Details are at lnkd.in/eDggC6WQ Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Look forward to all of your wonderful contributions!

Bruce Rawlings@brucerawlings.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to share that I have accepted the role of DE&I Associate Editor at Developmental Science, and look forward to building on the wonderful work of @lehersingh.bsky.social

Happy to share a new article analyzing effects of family SES on 5- to 12-month old infant word recognition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Socioeconomic Status Predicts Infant Word Recognition: Evidence From a Linguistically, Ethnically, and Socioeconomically Diverse Community Sample in Singapore

Prior research has demonstrated that infants have the capacity to recognize some familiar words. However, past studies have not analyzed the sociodemographic generalizability of research findings. In...

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I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line: "The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws" Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.

Call for Manuscript Proposals for a Special Issue in Current Directions in Psychological Science: #ClimateChange in Psychological Science Submission Deadline: April 15

AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind? In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

FYI for anyone laid off. Might be similar resources for people outside of Maryland as well - worth a look

Amazing *free* online course on conducting child language research in understudied communities: Expanding Research in Language Development (WERLD). By the incredible Marisa Casillas with a line up of fabulous guest lecturers. chatterlab.uchicago.edu/werld2025/

University of Chicago

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When I went off to @bostoncollege.bsky.social, my mandate from my mom was pretty simple: do well academically, find a job, and be done in 3 years. My dad had just jumped the family ship and my sister would be going off to college in my 4th year. I had enough college credits to grad in 3. 1/

Katie Hinde@mammalssuck.bsky.social · last yr.

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

Happy to share the product of a very enjoyable collaboration, led by Sakshi Ghai, on bridging inclusivity and open science principles and practices: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology

Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...

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