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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz
@laurasn.bsky.social
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Cognitive scientist, postdoc at iSearch lab (TU Munich), studying how children figure out other people. i have a kid & i like cooking & queer stuff. she/her
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · Apr 12
Do kids prefer to play with helpers? Our paper on children's trait attribution and partner choice is out! doi.org/10.1111/cdev... We wanted to know if kids, after observing other agents' behaviors, spontaneously (!) interpret them in terms of traits and choose cooperation partners accordingly. 🧵...
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 58m
Really cool!! I love the restricted scope model idea (and how experimental tasks provide this scaffolding).
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Julian Jara-Ettinger @julianje.bsky.social · 2h
Our paper in annual review of dev psych is out! It's a big-picture look at the development of social cognition from a computational perspective: compdevlab.yale.edu/docs/2025/an...
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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 1h
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 9d
Ever wonder how habituation works? Here's our attempt to understand:

A stimulus-computable rational model of visual habituation in infants and adults doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

This is the thesis of two wonderful students: @anjiecao.bsky.social @galraz.bsky.social, w/ @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social
infant data from experiment 1 conceptual schema for different habituation models title page results from experiment 2 with adults
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 16d
it's on cimpianlab.com/publications !
Publications | Cognitive Development Lab @ NYU
Publications authored by Dr. Andrei Cimpian and lab members.
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 17d
💖This paper has been ~11 years in the making - and probably my favorite project of all time. Thrilled to see it in @pnas.org! I'm so lucky that Zach decided to do a second PhD and join my lab @psychillinois.bsky.social back in 2014 - a fabulous scientist & human being! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Historical and experimental evidence that inherent properties are overweighted in early scientific explanation
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Kirstan Brodie @kirstanbrodie.bsky.social · 17d
Can reasoned arguments shift moral behavior? In a new preprint, @eschwitz.bsky.social, Jason Nemirow, @fierycushman.bsky.social and I explore this question in the context of charitable donation. (1/10)
Title: Philosophical Arguments Can Boost Charitable Giving Authors: Kirstan Brodie, Eric Schwitzgebel, Jason Nemirow, and Fiery Cushman
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Linas Nasvytis @linasnasvytis.bsky.social · 22d
🚨New paper out w/ @gershbrain.bsky.social & @fierycushman.bsky.social from my time @Harvard!

Humans are capable of sophisticated theory of mind, but when do we use it?

We formalize & document a new cognitive shortcut: belief neglect — inferring others' preferences, as if their beliefs are correct🧵
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Yang Xiang @yangxiang.bsky.social · 20d
Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling!
📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 22d
🚨 NEW PREPRINT: Multimodal inference through mental simulation.

We examine how people figure out what happened by combining visual and auditory evidence through mental simulation.

Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/cicl-stanfor...
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 22d
Very excited to announce my student Andreas Arslan's first paper, "Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events" in Cognition!

Out now open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Andreas isn't on bsky, but he very kindly wrote a summary thread for me to share.

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Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events
“Episodes” in memory are formed by the experience of dynamic events that unfold over time. However, just because a series of events unfold sequentiall…
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 23d
my (german) university has a page where you can check at what point they are with processing travel reimbursements, probably to ward off all those pesky emails from people waiting for their money. currently they're doing october 2024...
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 25d
congratulations!!! it's the loveliest longitudinal project & a wild ride :)
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · Aug 31
The human visual system has specialized modular processing for multiple distinct categories of causal events.

My new paper with my lab manager Katharina Wenig in Cognitive Science, "Causal Perception(s)"

Free open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#CogSci #PsychSciSky

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Causal Perception(s)
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CEU Cognitive Development Center @cogdevceu.bsky.social · Aug 27
🚨 Call for Submissions! 🚨
The 16th annual BCCCD meeting (Budapest, Hungary, Jan 15–17, 2026) is accepting submissions for symposia, talks & posters.
⏰ Deadline: Sept 5, 2025
Share your work & be part of the conversation! #CogSci #PsychSciSky #BCCCD
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BCCCD 2026 :: Submission
BCCCD26<br>Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
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SKeupp @skeupp.bsky.social · Aug 24
🔔 New paper out on Social evaluation of skill and competence in primates

@mariehirel.bsky.social, @williamohearn.bsky.social and @julxf.bsky.social made this happen

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Social evaluation of skill and competence in primates
Social life is a continuous interplay of observing and interacting with conspecifics, predicting their behavior, and responding to their actions. This…
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · Aug 20
When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind?

In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners

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Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates can track individual conspecifics...
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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · Aug 15
generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...
A hilariously inaccurate "diagram" of visual areas of the brain created by Chat GPT
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 12
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
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Setayesh Radkani @setayeshradkani.bsky.social · Aug 8
🚨Out in PNAS🚨
with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social

Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire.

Our computational cognitive model explains why!

Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7
News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu

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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · Aug 5
Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Screenshot of the first page of Tal and Chaz's paper, "The psychophysics of style"
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Marianna Zhang @mariannazhang.bsky.social · Jul 31
📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶‍♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵
continuum of inductive potential from low (relatively minimal categories whose members are dissimilar) to high (coherent meaningful categories whose members are similar) above a cartoon child. an icon of a tiger appears under "high" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a tiger in a zoo, with an arrow pointing to the tiger icon, and a dashed arrow extending it to a tiger on a savanna. an icon of a pedestrian appears under "low" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a woman on a street, with Xs over arrows pointing to the pedestrian icon, and to a different pedestrian.
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tadegquillien.bsky.social @tadegquillien.bsky.social · Jul 28
New short paper with @kevingoneill.github.io and Paul Henne: We re-analyse data from a recent study on causal judgment, and find that a counterfactual model explains why temporal order influences people's intuitions.
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A counterfactual explanation for recency effects in double prevention scenarios: Commentary on Thanawala and Erb (2024)
Many cognitive scientists and philosophers take cases of double prevention to be one of the primary motivations for accepting causal pluralism, the vi…
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · Jul 27
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species
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Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social · Jul 22
Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"!

Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind | PNAS
Theories of the evolution of cooperation through reciprocity explain how unrelated self-interested individuals can accomplish more together than th...
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