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Bottom line: We didn't find evidence that was the case but it was not detrimental. So sign with your kid if you have fun doing it but do not expect anything. (of course we are only talking about typically developing kids with no hearing issues).

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...

My personal take on this is we tend to be much more conservative with the interpretation we give to animals' behaviour than human infants. Being fair is part of the journey!

But this calls onto question the robustness of the role reversal paradigm into tapping onto these concepts and/or the ability to attribute agent/patient relations in very impoverished 2d animations. Pick your choice.

That does not say that they don't represent agent and patient relations! There is recent evidence that infants do with social stim (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) and that baboons do as well in chasing events using a very different design (our very own work: doi.org/10.1177/0956...)

*none* of them showed evidence of attributing agent and patient roles to causal Michottean launches. Oops.

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....

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/...

Perfect summary !

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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…

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...

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:...

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...

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.

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...

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

This is really cool! I think we need that in France too at the moment. #todo

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Yes it seems that this is a topic that leads to this type of situation. She has been doing those experiments we were talking about back then (and more), cool stuff

Meanwhile in France…

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

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

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...