Cool finding on 'parentese' from Gaye Soley's lab: when a parent speaks to each of their two children, the sound/style of their voice indicates whether they're speaking to the younger or older one (and other kids can tell!)

Preschoolers Infer Listeners from Age-Related Variation in Maternal Child-Directed Speech

Child-directed speech (CDS) varies systematically with the recipient child’s age. The present study examined whether children aged 3–6 years are sensitive to this within-register variation and use ...

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Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2

Children’s Representations of Possibility: Uncertainty About “What” Is Easier Than Uncertainty About “Where”

Children’s Representations of Possibility: Uncertainty About “What” Is Easier Than Uncertainty About “Where”

Abstract. Young children struggle in situations involving mere possibility, such as when a target object could be in one of two possible locations. This difficulty is often interpreted as a general…

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The Department of Psychology at Notre Dame is hiring! We have two TT Asst Prof ads out, one in cognitive psychology and another in developmental psychology. Come be my colleague in South Bend!

Stunning evening last night at the @isreorg.bsky.social conference dinner at Brisbane's Customs House. (Lucky me sitting with the wonderful @arvidkappas.bsky.social & @nicolenelson.bsky.social - together with our table friends we managed 2nd prize for the after-dinner trivia 🤗) #ISRE2026

Amazing talk by @mzloteanu.bsky.social at #ISRE2026 highlighting ways the emotion field can do better in general, and particularly when looking at expression authenticity/deception

New open dataset out in Scientific Data 🚨 We are releasing BBBD: the Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work with @parralab.org

The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos

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Thanks for organising such a great set of talks @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social!!

Hedwig Eisenbarth@hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · last mo.

Great to be co-presenting our symposium about Attention to Threat- with @melanietakarangi.bsky.social , @nicolenelson.bsky.social and Andra Wat-Si at @expsyanz.bsky.social in Auckland!

Super excited for Gina Grimshaw's public lecture looking at thinking in the heart and mind! @expsyanz.bsky.social

If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

IT'S CONFERENCE WEEK! 🎉 Welcome to Auckland, NZ for APCV/EPC2026. Whether you're giving a talk, presenting a poster, or simply taking it all in, we're glad to have you here. Tag us with: #APCVEPC26

Five academic psychology jobs available here in Oz (not in my university) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor - Perception external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54... Lecturer/Senior Lecturer – Statistics external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...

Lecturer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level B/Level CSalary package: $124,638 - $166,338 per annum plus 17% superannuation Term: Continuing, Full time   The Position:  This Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Level B/C) rol...

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I adapted a scheduler app that was shared at VSS for this conference: apcvepc2026.netlify.app. Hope others find it useful in organising their time. (And thank you to Miyoung Kwon who created the app originally).

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

Spencer and MJ’s project is now out! Let me say something about the study, why it is important to me personally, and why I think it is important given what is happening right now at NIH and how science there is being disrupted or suppressed. 1/N (N = 19) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The visual perks of (not) being a wallflower: sociality is a stronger predictor of individual differences in face recognition than childhood experiences

Individuals vary considerably in their ability to recognize faces. Such variability may in part reflect individual differences in exposure to faces ba…

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All speakers should have received information about the session & timings of their presentations at #epc-apcv-2026 by now! A preliminary (searchable) schedule is available on the website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026 Remember to register by the end of 15 May for early-bird rates!

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Another reminder that our Early Bird Registration closes next week (15th May 26). All presenters, including speakers and discussants, please register by then.

Final days for Early Bird registration! Register now and take advantage of discounted pricing.

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Another reminder that our Early Bird Registration closes next week (15th May 26). All presenters, including speakers and discussants, please register by then.

Can gratitude interventions make the world happier? We tested 6 gratitude practices across 34 countries with 10,696 participants to find out — and the answer is more interesting than a simple yes 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A multinational megastudy of the effects of gratitude practices on subjective well-being | PNAS

Scholars have observed people from a variety of cultures using a variety of gratitude-related practices to change their emotions, outlooks, and soc...

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New work from my lab! Young children find it easier to represent mutually-exclusive possible identities of an object than possible locations of an object - an early object-rep-architecture limitation on possibility reasoning! Work led by @esranur.bsky.social recently accepted in Open Mind ✨

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük@esranur.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in Open Mind! 2-to-4-year-olds find it easier to reason about an object's possible identity than its possible location, and we argue this asymmetry traces back to the architecture of early object representations. 🧵

⚠️ LAST CHANCE to submit your abstract. Submissions close 30 April 2026.

New paper in Developmental Psychology: Rethinking parenting: A function-based framework for understanding caregiving across contexts We move from labeling parenting and focus on the goals behind behaviors (emotional connection, structure, cultural values). w/ Sungha Kang & @qmmmmliu.bsky.social!

Excited to share our new paper in Child Dev! 🎉 We taught children names for 'monster' toys. Some names matched the sounds they made, some didn't. Children, especially 3-yr-olds, learned matching names more easily. Iconic words support word learning. Read here: track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Young children benefit from iconicity when learning novel onomatopoeia

Abstract. Iconic words, especially animal onomatopoeia, are more prevalent in infant- than adult-directed speech, possibly because iconicity bootstraps wor

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Postdoc available! There are two T32 positions at Minnesota focusing on developmental psychopathology, with a large selection of potential mentors. I could serve as primary mentor for someone interested in intersections with metascience and/or diversity. Apply now! drive.google.com/file/d/18SoO...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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🧠Welcome to the official Bluesky for the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS) Early Career Researcher (ECR) members🧠 Here we'll share information about upcoming ACNS conferences, workshops, and other ECR-relevant opportunities! #ACNS #EarlyCareerResearcher #Science #ACNSECR

My close friend/colleague (Dr Pengfei Xu) has published an impressive 7-yr prospective study with nearly 400 young people, showing that functional brain dynamics in early childhood relate to adolescent anxiety and depression. www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... #PsychSciSky

Childhood electroencephalographic signatures predict distinct developmental trajectories to adolescent anxiety and depression

Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of anxiety and depression, yet their neurodevelopmental origins remain unclear.

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1/8 New preprint alert! How are signals from the heart encoded in the brain? What could be the functional implications of cardioception? We found that neurons in the posterior insular cortex are precisely tuned to heartbeats, and that this cardio-insular coupling supports emotion coding in mice.

Culture-specific pathways to the emerging sense of agency in early vocal development: https://osf.io/9g8zd

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

Psychology lecturer job in Sydney. Apparently for this job you must already have unrestricted work rights in Australia www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Psychology | Alex Holcombe

FYI for this psychology lecturer job you must already have unrestricted work rights in Australia

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