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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

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!

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 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

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

The pleasure, truly, was ours!

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

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

Great news! It's Innate! is now available on Apple Podcasts! Listen and subscribe here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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

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. itsinnate.fireside.fm/31

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?

🚨 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

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 🙂

🚨 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

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. itsinnate.fireside.fm/28

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! itsinnate.fireside.fm/27

Wondering when the next episode is going to drop? Fair question. We’ve got great convos waiting to be released, & we just need help getting them out! This is why we're looking for a PhD student in developmental cognitive science (or related field) to join our team as an editor!

We are beyond excited to be talking with the distinguished Professor Nora Newcombe (@noranewcombe.bsky.social) today about her journey in science, her work on spatial thinking, among other things! Stay tuned for the episode!

So thrilled to announce that we've released another "A conversation with a luminary" episode. In this long episode, we chat with luminary Professor Susan Carey! She talks about her career, the evolution of developmental cognitive science, iconic representations, and more! itsinnate.fireside.fm/26

Be sure to listen to our latest episode, in which we chat with Professor Gert Westermann about how curiosity might work (among other things). itsinnate.fireside.fm/25

🚨 New episode 🚨 In it, we chat with Professor Gert Westermann about his work exploring the mechanstic basis of curiosity. Along the way he talks about his journey in science, the role of computational modeling, and his early encounter with nativism in a language class. itsinnate.fireside.fm/25

In case you missed it, we've released another episode! Jenny and I chat about how infants might learn about the causal properties of animates and inanimates based on a recent paper by Deon. Lots to enjoy about this episode! itsinnate.fireside.fm/24

🚨 New episode! Deon and Jenny discuss how infants learn about causal actions of animates vs. inanimates, inspired by Deon's JEP:General paper. Academic job market, philosophy (e.g., Hume, Michotte), computational modeling, and developmental science—this episode has it all! itsinnate.fireside.fm/24

Had a great time joining Deon and Jenny to chat about some recent ManyBabies projects!

New episode! In it, we chat with Dr. Martin Zettersten (mzettersten.bsky.social) about a cool ManyBabies project assessing the reliability of infant directed speech! We also chat about his journey & his transition from postdoc to an assistant professor, among other things! itsinnate.fireside.fm/23

We couldn't be more excited to be interviewing Professor Rebecca Saxe (rebeccasaxe.bsky.social) tomorrow as part of our continuing luminary series! Please leave a comment below if there's anyone with whom you'd like us to chat. And if you'd like to be on the podcast, please let us know that too!

We're continuing our "A conversation with a luminary" series with Professor Fei Xu! We talk about her life as a graduate student surrounded by folks like Chomsky and Fodor, number cognition, probabilistic reasoning in infants, "rational constructivism", among other things! itsinnate.fireside.fm/22

Not only are we back with a new episode but with a brand new series called "A conversation with a luminary", where we chat with a trailblazing developmental cognitive scientist. We're kicking things off with a conversation with the Rubinstein Professor Jenny Saffran! Enjoy! itsinnate.fireside.fm/21

Better late than never! We've found our way to Bluesky. Be sure to give us a follow if you're a developmental scientist with an interest in infant and child development. Expect a new episode from us every two weeks!