
Martin Zettersten
@m_zettersten
Assistant Professor @UCSanDiego Cognitive Science
language development | cognitive development | learning
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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.



🚨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




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…


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…


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!



