REVIEWERS WANTED ! If you work on visual search or attention and are willing to give a bit of your time to review for #CogSci2026 (cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2026/) please contact me !

REVIEWERS WANTED ! If you work on visual search or attention and are willing to give a bit of your time to review for #CogSci2026 (cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2026/) please contact me !

Another recent paper from our lab. Not my usual stuff though, where we looked at whether typically developping kids who are exposed to Babysign have a bigger spoken vocab (as often claimed by ppl) in a large sample of kids (1600) doi.org/10.1177/0142...

If you work on early causal perception or agent/patient concepts, chances are that you heard about Leslie & Keeble's 1987 paper. We extended their role reversal design with new control conditions in 3 populations: 6mo human infants, baboons and human adults. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

No Evidence for Agent−Patient Role Attribution in Human Infants, Human Adults, and Guinea Baboons (Papio papio)

Languages describe “who is doing what to whom” by distinguishing the event roles of agent (doer) and patient (undergoer), but it is debated whether they result from nonlinguistic representations that....

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Huge congratulations to @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social l who defended his PhD thesis today!! with his co-supervisor @sblldtrch.bsky.social and jury members @simonkirby.bsky.social @gboleda.bsky.social Paula Rubio Fernandez & Benjamin Spector.

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

La croisade anti-écrans part en vrille. Pourquoi la tribune du 29 avril signée par cinq sociétés médicales est tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des résultats probants. Ma nouvelle chronique en libre accès dans l'Express: www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...

Faut-il vraiment interdire les écrans avant six ans ? Les dessous d'une croisade qui part en vrille

Selon notre chroniqueur Franck Ramus, spécialiste de ces questions, la tribune publiée le 29 avril et signée par cinq sociétés savantes est "tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des…

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I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees. Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins

We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...

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A series of three studies provide evidence in infants for function application, the essence of compositionality, emerging before and outside the development of compositional language. @sblldtrch.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Evidence for compositional abilities in one-year-old infants - Communications Psychology

A series of three studies provide evidence in infants for function application, the essence of compositionality, emerging before and outside the development of compositional language.

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Does compositionality exist before/outside language? And what does non-linguistic compositionality mean btw? Some new thoughts and results on this: rdcu.be/ecVZI #ThoughtOrigin #ERC

Evidence for compositional abilities in one-year-old infants

Communications Psychology - A series of three studies provide evidence in infants for function application, the essence of compositionality, emerging before and outside the development of...

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Meanwhile in France…

Is perceptual novelty important in your research? We created, standardised, and validated a database of truly novel perceptual stimuli (matched to BOSS objects on size, contrast, luminance & colourfulness) so you don't have to! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogpsy #psychology #EEG #neuroskyence

Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Standardised images of novel objects created with generative adversarial networks

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Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning Review by Mireille Babineau, Monica Barbir, Alex de Carvalho, Naomi Havron, Isabelle Dautriche & Anne Christophe Web: go.nature.com/3Vpz6Vh PDF: rdcu.be/dJTTt #psychology #psychscisky #devpsych

Parents! I am looking for the most popular baby sign teaching program in your country (a website, a insta/YouTube account, a book, whatever). Many thanks !

Oh it looks like people are actually there! :) Let see how this goes under the blue sky...