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...