Out now in Open Mind, @chencheng.bsky.social and I investigated the kinds of computations young children can do with non-symbolic representations of small, exact quantities. We find small, exact reps are more computationally flexible than analog magnitude reps! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

New paper! Chen Cheng and I examined the development of the "operational precision" of the approximate number system in 4-6-year-olds. We find different trajectories for the development of precision of non-symbolic addition and unknown-addend operations #devpsych www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Didn't expect my fortune cookie to have such a strong theoretical stance on memory encoding #cogpsych #psychscisky

I’m excited to post a “failed” scientific study. We formulated and tested a hypothesis that I really liked. The hypothesis was wrong. osf.io/preprints/os... Collaborating with @jessicas.bsky.social and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social

📣 Thrilled to share my first first-author publication in Cognition: “Three-year-olds' ability to plan for mutually exclusive future possibilities is limited primarily by their representations of possible plans, not possible events” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A reminder that poster submissions are open for the 30th Anniversary of Mapping the Mind preconference workshop at CDS 2024! Deadline is Feb 8. More info here! www.bu.edu/cdl/2024-cds...

New Substack! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/how-to-giv...

Cool to see more (social) psych TT jobs being posted! Hopefully more will come! Good luck to all on the market. My website has some resources (including application materials/ statements from various generous people) that may be helpful. Caution/ disclaimer: survival bias www.pbandjlab.com/resources