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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 22h

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

Screenshot of a paper abstract:

“Core knowledge” refers to a set of cognitive systems that underwrite early representations of the physical and social world, appear universally across cultures, and likely result from our genetic endowment. Although this framework is canonically considered as a hypothesis about early emerging conception — how we think and reason about the world — here we present an alternative view: that many such representations are inherently perceptual in nature. This “core perception” view explains an intriguing (and otherwise mysterious) aspect of core-knowledge processes and representations: that they also operate in adults, where they display key empirical signatures of perceptual processing. We first illustrate this overlap using recent work on “core physics”, the domain of core knowledge concerned with physical objects, representing properties such as persistence through time, cohesion, solidity, and causal interactions. We review evidence that adult vision incorporates exactly these representations of core physics, while also displaying empirical signatures of genuinely perceptual mechanisms, such as rapid and automatic operation on the basis of specific sensory inputs, informational encapsulation, and interaction with other perceptual processes. We further argue that the same pattern holds for other areas of core knowledge, including geometrical, numerical, and social domains. In light of this evidence, we conclude that many infant results appealing to precocious reasoning abilities are better explained by sophisticated perceptual mechanisms shared by infants and adults. Our core-perception view elevates the status of perception in accounting for the origins of conceptual knowledge, and generates a range of ready-to-test hypotheses in developmental psychology, vision science, and more.

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ENIGMA Consortium @enigmabrains.bsky.social · 1d

Job Opening 💻 #POSTDOC RESEARCHER in Women’s Brain Health at Universitätsmedizin Berlin with Prof. Dr. Claudia Barth to work in the ENIGMA #Neuroendocrinology #Menopause Group. Apps due Oct 14. karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...

Postdoctoral Researcher (d/f/m) in Women’s Brain Health (Neuroimaging)

full-time, part-time | 14.10.2025 | Campus Charité Mitte

karriere.charite.de

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 1d

For researchers in Canada and the USA 👇

Online info session about ERC research grants, on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 12:00 noon ET (9:00 AM PT, 6:00 PM CEST).

The meeting is free but advance registration is required.

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/no...

ERC Grants: Q&A and testimonials

EURAXESS North America will host an online meeting with officials from the European Research Council Executive Agency, which administers ERC grants, as well as current ERC grantees, who will share the...

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 2d

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈
Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣

Please get in touch to hear more!

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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New article 🚨

Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap.

Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...

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Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics @ae.mpg.de · 3d

📢 Call for Abstracts!

The 2nd Annual Conference on #AestheticDevelopment takes place on Nov 20, 2025, at the MPIEA. We invite submissions on how children engage with and develop through the arts.

🗓 Deadline: Oct 12, 2025
🔗 indico.ae.mpg.de/event/29/abstracts/
#Aesthetics #Conference

Visual with a Call for Papers for the 2nd Annual Conference on Aesthetic Development.

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 2d

New paper involving @zoengo.bsky.social, formerly of LIP, now leading her own Emmy Noether Group RAVEN | Real-world Applications of Variability in Episodic memory and Neurodevelopment @mpib-berlin.bsky.social!

Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications

Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

www.nature.com

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 3d

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories

Longitudinal measurements of brain structure and function are critical for understanding how humans change over time. Traditional longitudinal approaches sample sparsely across large windows of time t...

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 3d

We're looking for an experimental psychologist in Witten. Contact me if you have questions about the job (I'm not on the commission, so can talk freely :-)
uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/59638545...

Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) bei Universität Witten/Herdecke

Wir suchen: Universitätsprofessur für Experimentelle Psychologie (W2-analog) (Vollzeit) • Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50, 58455 Witten, Deutschland

uni-wh.softgarden.io

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 3d

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉

I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty).

See lab page and doc below for details!

Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · Nov 18

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!

Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD

Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

www.vislearnlab.org

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Andrea Reiter @anrei.bsky.social · 4d

job alert 🚨 come join us in beautiful Würzburg 🏰🌳🍷🫧this 3yrs Postdoc position is for German speakers interested in child&adolescent clinical psych. Although initially limited to 3 years, this position offers a possibility of tenure! happy to answer any question in advance-shoot me an📨&pls share🙃

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 9d

If you're a data scientist interested in a full-time or part-time role working with developmental psychologists on cross-cultural data from parents and children, check out this position with the Developing Belief Network. Application review begins October 15, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network

Position: Full-Time Data Scientist, Developing Belief Network Description: We are looking for a full-time data scientist to join the Developing Belief Network, a global team of psychologists studying...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 6d

Happy fall y'all

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 9d

The CogSci Society is accepting nominations for 🌟Fellows of the Society🌟

Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community.

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!

Graphic announcing: “Nominations for Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society are open until Nov 1.” The word “Fellows” is large and bold. To the right, there is a calendar icon showing November 1. Decorative starburst graphic above the text.

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 7d

HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization - Nature Methods

HippoMaps provides an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities such as histology, fMRI, structural MRI and EEG.

www.nature.com

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 7d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 7d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 6d

Several of the participants were LIP colleagues who were joined by others from all over Europe. A good time was had by all in this wonderful location!

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 6d

The excellent lectures were held by Gerd Kempermann, Martin Lövdén, Mackenzie and Alex Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social, @trackingskills.bsky.social, Naftali Raz, & Nathalie Rochefort, @tjryan.bsky.social supplemented by talks by some of the participants!

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 6d

The Neuroscience School for Advanced Studies "Brain Plasticity: Neural Basis of Individuality" led by LIP Director Ulman Lindenberger and Tobias Bonhoeffer @mpiforbi.bsky.social has just ended at San Servolo, Venice! #nsas

Group photo in front of old church in green scenery

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 7d

Check out this new Max Planck graduate school, for talented students interested in applying ML/AI tools to one of a wide variety of scientific fields. Deadline this October 31st!

Home

ai.mpg.de

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Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 8d

If you’re in London next week, why not swing by?

London Judgement and Decision Making seminar series @ljdm.bsky.social · 8d

Hello everyone! Along with our first post here on Bluesky, we look forward to the new academic year, hosting our first #LJDM2025 session next week with Dr Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social. For more info and to keep updated, check our website!

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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 9d

W3 Professorship in Computational Psychiatry at Uni Bochum

www.researchgate.net/job/1032595_...

PROFESSORSHIP FOR RESEARCH ON COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY (W3) (M/F/D) at Ruhr University Bochum in Bochum, GERMANY

Sep 29, 2025 | The Ruhr area, one of Europe’s largest metropolitan regions, offers attractive career opportunities for excellent scientists and scholars from... | NEW JOB

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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 9d

🚨Student Research Assistant Wanted (Deadline: October 31)

We are seeking a Bachelor/Master student research assistant to assist our ongoing research in all phases of the scientific process @mpib-berlin.bsky.social.

See the link below for more details!👇
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2170830/2025...

Student Research Assistant | Center for Adaptive Rationality

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 8d

New work by former LIP colleague @garvinbrod.bsky.social!

Garvin Brod @garvinbrod.bsky.social · 9d

You can learn better by making your own predictions than by watching someone else's predictions, even if they are the same as yours. New computational approach to show the benefits of active/generative learning developed together with the fabulous @ebonawitz.bsky.social rdcu.be/eILdR

Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

npj Science of Learning - Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

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