Sarah Jessen

@sarahjessen.bsky.social

cognitive neuroscience. early social development. infant EEG. University of Lübeck. 👶🧠 www.babylab-luebeck.de

New review out from our lab! How does the degree of others' presence influence the way we interact with them? We propose a new framework that distinguishes sensory and temporal presence as relevant dimensions of social presence. We hope that our framework www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Social presence and its role in social interactions: Insights, challenges and a call for action

Over the past decades, we have seen a fundamentally new form of social interaction become more and more common in our everyday lives: mediated social …

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🎓 Die Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie (DGPs) vergibt derzeit bis zu 4 MiniGrants à 1.500 € zur Förderung von Vernetzung und Laborbesuchen in frühen Karrierephasen. Die Grants ermöglichen Einblicke in neue Arbeitsgruppen, Methoden und Forschungsprozesse durch Aufenthalte.

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈 Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣 Please get in touch to hear more!

schematic of fetal OPM-MEG

Are you interested in what to do with all that movement data you often get in your neuroscience measures? Is it just noise, or how can we make use of it? This December, we are organizing a workshop in Lübeck to discuss precisely these questions. (1/2)

Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶 While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life

Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...

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We're looking for a PhD student interested in developing brains and developing new methods to study them! Anna Kowalczyk and myself have a fully funded PhD position to advance OPM-MEG methods for infant and neonatal brain imaging. 👉 Please repost to help us spread the word 🙏 More info & links 👇

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

First time holding my book ✨ I had so much fun writing about the absolute miracle that is the first years of human development. For parents, practitioners and anybody interested in the latest research on early social, cognitive and emotional development 👶 Babies are the best 🫶

Stefanie Höhl holding her book titled Das größte kleine Wunder.