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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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.
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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!
In case you missed it, our discussion with Professor Rebecca Saxe (@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social) is live! Give it a listen, why don't ya?
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🚨 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!
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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?!
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...
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...
Looks like we might have to have Dr. Hamlin and/or Dr. Geraci on to discuss this super cool paper!
Shameless self-promotion #DevPsy #PhdSky #PsychSciSky
Thanks, @deontbenton.bsky.social and @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social for letting me talk about my career and my beloved mentors 🙂
We're reposting this because in the previous post we misspelled Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy's name.
🚨 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!
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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!
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!
🚨 New episode! In this episode, we chat with graduate student extraordinaire, Sholei Croom, about their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions". The paper explored whether learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.
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Super fun to do! Thanks @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social
🚨 New episode! We are excited to be releasing another "A conversation with a luminary" episode. In it, we chat with Professor Nora Newcombe (@noranewcombe.bsky.social) about her science journey, the geometric module, empiricism & nativism, among other things. Enjoy!
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