Really excellent to see more attempts to model social cues like gaze using natural behaviour. For too long we've constrained variation for experimental control
*but the meaning is often in the variation!*
#neuroskyence
elifesciences.org/articles/105...
New 🦍 💭 paper in @psychscience.bsky.social
We continue to ask simple questions that are hard to answer
"Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability"
Bonus: Rasch models in the supplement 🤓
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Academic friends,
It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region.
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions.
Please read & sign if you agree:
sites.google.com/view/protect...
#IranWar
New paper! Had lots of fun writing this with @lauriebayet.bsky.social There is so much more to say about extrinsic and intrinsic experiences which shape infants' face perception and learning, hopefully this keeps & starts conversations about a topic we love!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Cross-cultural & cross-species comparisons of mutual gaze & infant emotion: Challenging WEIRD, barren, institutional, zoo, & other rare rearing environments assumptions - by Jaddi, Kishimoto, & Bard psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
My (very) short piece on how prenatal experience with the mother's voice may rapidly scaffold the development of face perception in newborn infants is now out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com !
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Stoked to share our new lab pub led by the amazing @normanjzeng.bsky.social ! After watching multi-party agent events, infants expect agents to preserve their moral "role" in a resource distribution task. Indiv. variability predicted by infants' social contact.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Casey, @lauriebayet.bsky.social @simpson.bsky.social et al. (2026) assessed & demo'd feasibility of webcam-based, asynchronous online behavioral studies w/ 0–6wos & caregivers ➡️ findings provide a foundation for future research on neonatal mimicry of caregivers #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
What can face preference in newborns tell us about their face representation? Contrasting learned familiarity with inherent bias accounts doi.org/10.1093/chid...
Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo
A lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent
www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
Neonatal mimicry of caregivers at home: Feasibility of an asynchronous online paradigm #OpenAccess by @lauriebayet.bsky.social & team! doi.org/10.1111/infa...
NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Male and female empathy across 24 countries and 60 latitudinal degrees #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
Impact of Surgical Masks on Newborns' Spontaneous Face Processing Skills
doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Check out our new paper on the #development of #gaze-following in wild #chimpanzees, led by @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, & Isabelle Monroe!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
In all red: "Science fight club, established 2025". With a fist holding a beaker.
2025 sucked.
In 2026, we are taking back our science!
We are excited to launch our Substack: The Science Fight Club.
Read our first post, written by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, a review of 2025, a preview of 2026, and a big call to action.
open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...
There’s a fantastic developmental science resource called Children Helping Science, at MIT (childrenhelpingscience.com). Researchers run child studies online, Parents sign up & participate with their kids. CHS got an offer from an anonymous donor: matching gifts up to $100K through December!
Individual differences in sick face sensitivity: females are more sensitive to lassitude facial expressions than males - @tiffany6390.bsky.social
Free for the next 50 days: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
A Quarter Century Review of Research on Infant Behavior and Development
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Our amazing department (Psychology) at U-Miami is hiring in their Adult division, with open topic / focus area! Come apply and check out the job ad here: umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...:
Drawing of an infant getting an ABR screening, and two different waveforms shown, one for typical and one for infants later dying of SIDS, pointing towards early detection risk identification and potential intervention, showing a baby sleeping.
Stage 2 report now out! Newborn Auditory Brainstem Response and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome doi.org/10.1002/jnr.... #OpenAccess
We're hiring at the University of Miami! The Department of Psychology is looking for a Child Clinical Psychology faculty member. As search chair, my contact info is in the job ad if anybody would like to discuss the position further umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMFaculty/jo...
No, I don’t think so. Thanks!
