New ep! 🚨 Deon chatted with Dr. Ryan Lei (ryanlei.bsky.social) about his academic journey, his work on intersectionality & intersectional invisibility, & SLACs. Plus, we discuss how race impacts kid's gender categorizations. And of course, plenty of mechanism talk! itsinnate.fireside.fm/41

"Friends / ones (our social cognition) can depend on" (with Ryan Lei)

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Interested in SLACs? The difference between them & R1s? Intersectionality prototype development? Then you're in for a treat! Tomorrow we get to chat with the inimitable Dr. Ryan Lei (ryanlei.bsky.social) about these very things! Jenny is away, so Deon will be flying solo for this one. Stay tuned!

If this site ever goes down, you can now find us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Dr. Shari Liu (shariliu.bsky.social) about her recent Nature Reviews Psychology paper. How do infants make sense of other people's minds? According to Shari, part of the answer lies in understanding the physical world. itsinnate.fireside.fm/40

Mind o̶v̶e̶r̶ Matter? (with Shari Liu)

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We are SO excited to chat with Dr. Shari Liu (@shariliu.bsky.social) about her scientific journey and, most importantly, about her recent Nature Reviews paper entitled "How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world"!

In case you missed our latest episode, check it out below!

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW EPISODE 🚨 Part II is here! Jenny & Deon continue their discussion of Bayesian models and number cognition, including how Lee and Sarnecka used the same Bayesian model to test two competing theories of how children acquire number knowledge. itsinnate.fireside.fm/39

NEW EPISODE 🚨 Part II is here! Jenny & Deon continue their discussion of Bayesian models and number cognition, including how Lee and Sarnecka used the same Bayesian model to test two competing theories of how children acquire number knowledge. itsinnate.fireside.fm/39

Give-N you Bayes and Backpropagation (Pt. II)

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New ep! 🚨 In Part I of this 2-part episode, Jenny & Deon discuss connectionist modeling, developmental change, developmental tasks, one-hot vs. distributed representations, the give-N task, Bayesian models, Marr’s levels, & more. Stay tuned for Part II! itsinnate.fireside.fm/38

Give-N you Bayes and Backpropagation (Pt. I)

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The fun continues! In an upcoming episode, Jenny and Deon discuss connectionist modeling, then dive into Lee & Sarnecka (2010), their Bayesian model of the give-N task, and what a more mechanistically-oriented (in Marr's algorithm sense) connectionist version might look like

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with our editor Jenna's PI, Dr. Katie Graf Estes, about her academic journey, mentorship, and dealing with failure. We also discuss her Psych Science paper, "Can Infants Map Meaning to Newly Segmented Words?: Statistical Segmentation and Word Learning." itsinnate.fireside.fm/37

From statistics to meaning (with Katie Graf Estes)

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The pleasure, truly, was ours!

Viridiana L. Benitez@viribeni.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This conversation was SO much fun! Thank you for the opportunity to talk about my journey and work! @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Dr. Viridiana Benitez (viribeni.bsky.social) about her academic journey and mentorship. We also discuss her Current Biology paper, “Predictable Events Enhance Word Learning in Toddlers,” as well as her work on predictability and bilingualism. itsinnate.fireside.fm/36

The goldilocks of predicability (with Viridiana Benitez)

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New ep! 🚨 We chat with Dr. Richard Prather (pratherlab.bsky.social) about his path into cognitive science, numerical development, & computational modeling—plus a deep dive into why the field needs a more 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 approach & what that actually means for researchers today. itsinnate.fireside.fm/35

A 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 take on the cognitive sciences (with Richard Prather)

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Education Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge!

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We're looking forward to our conversation tomorrow with Dr. Richard Prather (pratherlab.bsky.social) about what it means to apply a critical approach to the cognitive sciences and to releasing the episode shortly thereafter! Don't forget to let us know who you'd like to hear from next!

A little teaser of upcoming guests: 🎉Dr. Richard Prather -- addressing the "homogenous samples" fallacy (pratherlab.bsky.social) 🎉Dr. Viridiana Benitez (viribeni.bsky.social) -- infant statistical learning 🎉Dr. Alessandra Geraci -- innate socio evaluation & sensitivity to ostensive pointing

New ep! 🚨 In the first half, they discuss Jenny’s recent paper showing that children’s number estimates can be influenced by the gender of the person providing the estimate. In the second half, they talk about Deon's recent paper examining children's causal judgements. itsinnate.fireside.fm/34

"There are only so many experiments one can do!"

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New ep! 🚨 In it, we introduce a new member of our team — Jenna DiStefano (@jennadistefano.bsky.social) — and chat with her about her work — how Infant Directed Speech varies across context. With Jenna as our editor, we may *finally* be able to release episodes regularly! itsinnate.fireside.fm/33

Finding common ground (with Jenna DiStefano)

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We're ecstatic to be talking today with Dr. Vlad Ayzenberg (‪@vayzenb.bsky.social‬) about his recent paper in Science Advances exploring the mechanisms that underpin object recognition in young children and adults. Stay tuned!

🚨 New ep! We talk w/ Professor Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) about her dev sci path, training w/ legends (Woodward, Wynn, Bloom, Santos), & her Nature Comms paper showing 5-day-olds prefer helpers over hinderers. Plus: reconciling ManyBabies & replication woes. itsinnate.fireside.fm/31

Moral kombat (with Kiley Hamlin)

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Want to know what makes today so special?! We get to chat with the inimitable Professor Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) about her science journey, her recent paper in Nature Communications showing that sociomoral evaluation may be innate, and more! Stay tuned for the episode!

An inspirational and fun conversation with @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social!

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · last yr.

In case you missed it, our discussion with Professor Rebecca Saxe (@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬) is live! Give it a listen, why don't ya?

In case you missed it, our discussion with Professor Rebecca Saxe (@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬) is live! Give it a listen, why don't ya?

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Episode! 🚨 We're thrilled to release another installment of "A conversation with a luminary," featuring *over 2 hours* with Professor Rebecca Saxe. We discuss her early life, science journey, mentorship under Nancy Kanwisher, her Theory of Mind work, & more! So fun! itsinnate.fireside.fm/30

🚨 New Episode! 🚨 We're thrilled to release another installment of "A conversation with a luminary," featuring *over 2 hours* with Professor Rebecca Saxe. We discuss her early life, science journey, mentorship under Nancy Kanwisher, her Theory of Mind work, & more! So fun! itsinnate.fireside.fm/30

A conversation with a luminary #5: Rebecca Saxe

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The good times keep rolling (at least for the pod)! We're so thrilled to be chatting today with Professor Rebecca Saxe (‪@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬) about her scientific journey, remarkable career, and much more. This will be another installment of "A conversation with a luminary". Stay tuned!

Reupping this ↓ Oh, and spoiler: we'll be chatting with the inimitable Dr. Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) on Aug 6 about that new Nature Comms paper showing that 5-day-olds are sensitive to helping & hindering! Could sociomoral evaluation (or its ingredients) really be innate?!

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · last yr.

We want to hear from you, dear listener! Who would you like to hear us chat with on the next episode of The It's Innate! podcast? Nominate them in the comments below!

My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social ‬is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children

The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.

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Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications

A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...

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Looks like we might have to have Dr. Hamlin and/or Dr. Geraci on to discuss this super cool paper!

Kiley Hamlin@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering. rdcu.be/evorW

Shameless self-promotion #DevPsy #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Episode! Our recent chat w/ Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy (@zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social ) is up! We chat about her cog sci journey, her work on infant working memory, and a recent paper in which she argues that attention and working memory work in concert to pursue goals. So much fun! itsinnate.fireside.fm/29