So grateful to have my first first-author publication out in Developmental Science! Here we (@zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social @erikblaser.bsky.social) used our Shopping Game to ask whether kids use all of their memory capacity if they don't have to (they don't! 🤭) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New research from University of Waterloo Psychology researchers Adrian B. Safati (PhD student) and Dr. Daniel Smilek shows that simply expecting to think about our own thinking can actively influence how we regulate attention. Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🚨 New #Review #Preprint 🚨 Veera Ruuskanen proposes a new, concrete framework to understand how and why pupil size 👁️, neural activity 🧠, and behavior 💃 interact. doi.org/10.31234/osf... #psychology #neuroscience #pupillometry #perception

Can We Process Information Without Encoding It into Working Memory? Our findings with @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social and @koberauer.bsky.social suggest that processing entails encoding. Task-irrelevant information enters working memory during processing, impairing memory for relevant information.

Looking for your next weekend stats read?! @cribbie.bsky.social and I have written a tutorial on negligible effect/equivalence testing! link.growkudos.com/1ex872pua68

Neuroscientist @clionamurray.com knows the power of community. Murray explains how @blackinneuro.bsky.social expanded from its humble beginnings as a Slack channel to connect Black neuroscientists across the diaspora. By @alainaglevine.bsky.social #neuroskyence

Introducing “Pretend Battleship”: you’re told where all the ships are but then have to play like you never got that information. Could you do it? And what would your performance reveal about your understanding of your own mind? A joy to be part of this creative project led by @matanmazor.bsky.social

New on the Baby Blog - Could a toddler lose their keys? Proactive interference says yes by @ckoolh.bsky.social, Zane Mourad and @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social infantstudies.org/title-could-... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #memory

Now out in #ScienceAdvances: @baiweiliu.bsky.social and I ask how internal (goal) and external (sensory) selection are coordinated during visual search. The key insight: internal and external selection are not inherently serial, but may develop in parallel in the human brain: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Now out in an issue! ~~ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha). 👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz 👩‍🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The cost of remembering: engram competition as a flexible mechanism of forgetting. Our new perspective piece in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, lead by Ryan Lab alumni, Livia Autore. Also with Michael Drew from @utaustin.bsky.social Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Sad but true. Lessons here though. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just added a few thousand new search datasets, bringing the total up to almost 6k museum visitors 😮‍💨 Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... Data: osf.io/kf4sb/

Can infants tell when your phone is getting in the way? 📱👀 Cao et al. (2025) found that 20mo infants expect adults distracted by phones to do worse at simple tasks. Even babies may realise the consequences of multitasking! #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

also from the meme archives

open.spotify.com/episode/5w35... 😻 the last ~10 minutes of this episode especially is so beautiful and inspiring 😱

If you have the intuition that Bluey is better for kids than popular kids YouTube streamers, you are right! Kids YouTube videos have way more “flicker” - an interesting measure Sarah Stolp Shepherd uses in her research that is related to reduced short term learning and EF! youtu.be/4whbKAhHMc8?...

Alexis Torres has written an excellent review, now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, on "The Role of the LC-NE System in Attention: From Cells, to Systems, to Sensory-Motor Control" (w/ me and Gene Brewer). check it out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Just had the chance to present on an @infantstudies.bsky.social panel about inexpensive methods for data collection with children - if you're curious about how Children Helping Science works/the kinds of studies you can run, this slide deck is a good place to start! docs.google.com/presentation...

Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:

First time at #vss2025 favorite conference so far for sure 😎🐠🐟🐡

My first #srcd poster on proactive interference with 1.5 - 2.5 year olds 🤩

First post! HW assignment for Biostats class. For #TidyTuesday I just compared how many times some random words appeared in the Simpson's-character-names dataset. Here is the link to the script: github.com/candicekoolh...