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Psych PhD candidate at UCSD studying conceptual change 🌎 📚 •
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& I find that blind adults and children who have symbols for large numbers, and use 1:1 correspondence to count, do not extend a similar 1:1 strategy to a set-matching task, which assesses their knowledge of Hume’s principle. A 🧵:
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Exact numerical reasoning in blind children and adults
What is the origin of exact numerical reasoning in humans? Previous studies report that innumerate humans are unable to recognize that two sets placed…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002926?dgcid=author
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Super cool study led by Haleh Yazdi - a simple demonstration that applying oft-used measures to novel contexts isn’t enough for inclusive & effective cross-cultural research. Measures designed for western populations do not always capture cross-cultural variability, nor within-group patterns.
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David Barner
17 days ago
A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Development of Morality and Conventionality Across Cultures: Implementing a Two‐Stage Model for Cross‐Cultural Research
Establishing a shared sense of right and wrong is an essential milestone for human cooperation, raising the question of whether a universal set of moral intuitions exists. However, tests of universa.....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.70103
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Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society
21 days ago
Now accepting abstracts for MCLS 2026! Check out the announcement below for more information.
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CORRECTION: MCLS 2026 Now Accepting Submissions!
https://mailchi.mp/2e337fce2f78/mcls-2026-now-accepting-submissions-18164456
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Dan Hyde
about 1 month ago
Re-upping this ad for open postdoctoral position in my lab working with longitudinal fNIRS and EEG data from preschool children--especially interested in applicants with strong longitudinal modeling skills
publish.illinois.edu/danielchyde/...
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Postdoctoral Scholar – Brain and Cognitive Development Lab
https://publish.illinois.edu/danielchyde/postdoctoral-scholar/
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Kosta Boskovic
about 1 month ago
New pre-print with
@drbarner.bsky.social
! We ask how children come to understand age. We find that young children use numerical age and facial morphology to identify who’s older, not just size, and point to acquiring a number system as key to developing an understanding of age.
osf.io/gvb46
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David Barner
about 1 month ago
Happy to share this new entry on numerical cognition for the OECS. Thanks to
@hbaum.bsky.social
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@mcxfrank.bsky.social
for making this happen! Apologies if your work isn’t cited! Had to limit cites!!!
oecs.mit.edu/pub/rek9756r...
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Numerical Cognition
https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/rek9756r/release/1?readingCollection=9dd2a47d
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Stephen Van Hedger & I have a short piece on language and music interactions in the brain, in this cool new book by Edna Andrews and Swathi Kiran (appearing alongside some fab perspectives on language processing in the brain!)
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about 2 months ago
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moin syed
about 2 months ago
A quick (1000 words) read to enjoy with your morning coffee or afternoon tea: "Psychology wants to stay WEIRD, not go WILD" Why hasn't psychology diversified it samples, methods, theories, etc.? Because it doesn't want to.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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David Barner
about 2 months ago
Shopping for a hot take on nativism? Here's an argument that "strong nativist" accounts of concepts (here, numerical concepts) often fail to explain ontogenesis because they lack an account of "rational causation" - i.e., how innate contents are brought to bear in experience
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5d24c_v1
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Tomer Ullman
about 2 months ago
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* > These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees > They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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David Barner
2 months ago
Super fun paper on the role of sensorI-motor procedures in 1-to-1 set matching in blind children and adults, with the effulgent
@urvi.bsky.social
. Procedures that blind kids use for counting 1-1 don’t help set matching 1-1 unlike in sighted kids!
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Just in:
@drbarner.bsky.social
& I find that blind adults and children who have symbols for large numbers, and use 1:1 correspondence to count, do not extend a similar 1:1 strategy to a set-matching task, which assesses their knowledge of Hume’s principle. A 🧵:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Exact numerical reasoning in blind children and adults
What is the origin of exact numerical reasoning in humans? Previous studies report that innumerate humans are unable to recognize that two sets placed…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002926?dgcid=author
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Stephen Chrisomalis
2 months ago
My paper "Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities" (PhilTransB) addresses a whole class of questions around the role that semiotic modality, and specifically number words vs. number symbols, plays in the structure of numerical systems.
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Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The base concept in number systems is realized differently across multiple representational modalities—frameworks that incorporate sensory channel, medium of expression and semantic structures into integrated semiotic systems. Because these three factors ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0217
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Jonathan F. Kominsky
4 months ago
Very excited to announce my student Andreas Arslan's first paper, "Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events" in Cognition! Out now open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share. 🧵 (1/24)
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Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events
“Episodes” in memory are formed by the experience of dynamic events that unfold over time. However, just because a series of events unfold sequentiall…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725002586
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Ebru Evcen
4 months ago
Now out in Open Mind!
@drbarner.bsky.social
and I find that when people hear a conditional statement like “If you mow the lawn, you’ll get $5,” they often interpret it as “only if you mow the lawn”, a pragmatic, perfected meaning.
doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
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Already Perfect: Language Users Access the Pragmatic Meanings of Conditionals First
Abstract. Conditional statements often have two interpretations. For instance, the statement, “If you mow the lawn, you will receive $5”, might be understood to mean that mowing the lawn is just one p...
https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi.a.17
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Christoph Hoerl
4 months ago
A new way of looking at some debates in the Philosophy of Time. Now published.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3MSIW...
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The Flow of time: Rationalism vs. empiricism
I distinguish between empiricist and rationalist approaches to the idea of the flow of time. The former trace back the idea of the flow of time to the deliverances of our sensory or introspective c...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3MSIWSVSDZMRWDMXWKTD/full?target=10.1080/24740500.2022.2153069
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Melissa Kibbe
5 months ago
New from me and
@esranur.bsky.social
! In two exps with 3-4-year-olds, we find no differences in kids' reasoning about possible outcomes of an event in different temporal contexts; kids perform the same under physical and epistemic uncertainty
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#devpsy
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APA PsycNet
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-41704-001
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David Barner
7 months ago
Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Learning a Novel Number System: The Role of Compositional Rules and Counting Procedures
Humans count to indefinitely large numbers by recycling words from a finite list, and combining them using rules—for example, combining sixty with unit labels to generate sixty-one, sixty-two, and so...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.70071
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Mike Frank
7 months ago
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (
oecs.mit.edu
), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
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Lillian Behm
8 months ago
So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in
@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...
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Rodney Tompkins
8 months ago
UC San Diego Psychology hosted the first Southern California Meeting for Investigations in Developmental Science (SoCal MInDS) this Saturday. We were joined by wonderful folks from the southernmost UC campuses, SDSU, CSULA, Occidental College, and USC.
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Kensy Cooperrider
8 months ago
How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete. My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more. (link 👇)
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Out now!
@drbarner.bsky.social
& I find that Hindi kids learn yesterday & tomorrow earlier than English kids, despite having only word 'kal' to reference both the past and future. We argue that kids rely on tense info (over associations w/ events) to learn.
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Twice Upon a Time: Children Use Syntax to Learn the Meanings of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Time words like “yesterday” and “tomorrow” are abstract, and are interpreted relative to the context in which they are produced: the word “tomorrow” refers to a different point in time now than in 24....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13600
about 1 year ago
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Ida Momennejad
about 1 year ago
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/style/modern-love-grief-makes-us-time-travelers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i04.e-Wc.wgs1xl9BUhSU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Mike Frank
about 1 year ago
Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵
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New preprint w
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!TL;DR: even 3yos comprehend yesterday & tomorrow when tested on consecutive days, 1-2 years earlier than in other studies! BUT still struggle w hypothetical events. Tasks in which time actually passes maybe more sensitive to early time concepts!
osf.io/gs3r4/
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over 1 year ago
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Francesco Poli
almost 2 years ago
We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials:
tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
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moin syed
about 2 years ago
We wrote this paper to address that very concern (among others).
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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Easing Into Open Science: A Guide for Graduate Students and Their Advisors
This article provides a roadmap to assist graduate students and their advisors to engage in open science practices. We suggest eight open science practices that novice graduate students could begin ad...
https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.18684
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steven t. piantadosi
about 2 years ago
Super cool work by Sebastian Holt,
@judithfan.bsky.social
, and Dave Barner!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Creating ad hoc graphical representations of number
The ability to communicate about exact number is critical to many modern human practices spanning science, industry, and politics. Although some early…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027723002998
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