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A few days ago I was asked by Kenneth Cukier "whether language is a cognitive ability that’s unique to humans, or just one of many modes of communication dotted across the tree of life". You can hear the conversation that followed here. Stay tuned for the second episode.

Do you study behavior in one or more species? Then you could contribute data to the large-scale ManyManys 1 study on reversal learning across taxa! Join our open webinar series to learn how to get involved in Big Team Comparative Cognition! Register here: forms.gle/9VMgoXP4XmqUbv…

🚨💡Interested in collaborating on a Big Team Comparative Cognition project? 💡🚨 Learn about MM1 and let’s explore together how reversal learning can be implemented across taxa. 👶🐒🐐🐀🐡🐙🦜🦎🐸 #BigTeamScience #OpenScience #ComparativeCognition

🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at Johns Hopkins University (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

Why do scientists disagree? With the amazing Justin Sulik, Nakwon Rim, Elizabeth Pontikes, and Gary Lupyan, we show in Nature Human Behaviour how cognitive traits and dispositions align with persistent scientific divides, using article text, references, surveys, and the same cognitive

As a psych undergrad in St. Petersburg 6 years ago, I never imagined I’d be starting my own cognitive science lab at one of the world’s best research environments, to pursue the questions I find most important and meaningful. I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a

SIX YEARS after the initial blog post, this paper is finally published.. what a wild ride

What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in PNASNews w/ Communication Neuroscience Lab, Prof Michael E. Mann, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New lab preprint (just presented at a VSS talk) from Zekun Sun: "Dissociating low-level visual features from high-level event structure in action segmentation" osf.io/preprints/psya…

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in Nature Human Behaviour, led by the great Juliana Trach! "Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations" nature.com/articles/s4156…

BabyLMs first constructions: new study on usage-based language acquisition in LMs w/ Leonie Weissweiler, Cory Shain. Simple interventions show that LMs trained on cognitively plausible data acquire diverse constructions (cxns) babyLM 🧵

New paper led by PhD student, Arushi Malik (She/her)! Stability of individual differences in social and nonsocial visual attention from newborn to 14 months #OpenAccess with wonderful team, including Tiffany Leung (she/her), ZengGuangyu, Sarah Maylott, daniel messinger, et al. doi.org/10.1002/dev.70…

We're organizing a shared task to develop a multilingual physical commonsense reasoning evaluation dataset! Details on how to submit are at: sigtyp.github.io/st2025-mrl.html

Interested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The 🧠 BCD Lab 🧠 is expecting to hire a postdoc and a lab coordinator/tech in the coming months! Send me an email if interested and I’ll make sure to send you the job postings once open!

Join the UK Curiosity Network – Inaugural Workshop! 📅 25 November 2025 | 📍 Lancaster University, UK This event will bring together scholars from across disciplines interested in the study of curiosity. 👉 Read more & register: curiosity-battery.co.uk/uk-curiosity-n…

The DISC Lab is currently recruiting for our active studies! We are looking for children ages 4-6 and 10-12 to participate! Interested? Fill out our form linked below! disclab.psych.wisc.edu/participate-in…

#Preprint DROP. Using looking while listening? This will interest you!! We compared the psychometric properties of 11 LWL outcome measures + #spoileralert FOUND DISTINCT PROPERTIES FOR DISTRACTOR VS TARGET INITIAL TRIALS. Need I say more? 👉osf.io/preprints/psya…

What Paradigms Can Webcam Eye-Tracking Be Used For? Attempted Replications of Five Cognitive Science Experiments doi.org/10.1525/collab…