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BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · 16d

Curious about the human ability to extract regularities from sensory input (i.e., “statistical learning”) and individual differences therein? #CognitiveScience #Learning

Our #Consensus paper presents the collective insights of 27 researchers worldwide 🌎 💬 🌍 💬 🌏 💬:
🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · 29d

::slowly stands while clapping::

Image of labubu doll labeled labubu next to image of spiky labubu doll labeled lakiki

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Jun 27

For my next academic adventure I’m looking🕵🏼‍♀️ for an apartment in #Munich, ideally near/well-connected to #LMUMunich
Starting October/November this year.

If you know about anything/ have any hints I would appreciate it. Thank you!

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · Jun 17

Núria Sebastián, catedràtica de Psicologia de la #UPFBarcelona, recull el Premi Nacional de Recerca 2024, que atorga el Departament de Recerca i Universitats a través de la @fundaciorecerca.bsky.social #PNR24

L'enhorabona! 👏

@enginyeria-upf.bsky.social

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Jun 10

I presented the adult results 📊 of my MSCA project at the ISP in Barcelona, and infant results at WILD in San Sebastián and at the ABCD regional meeting in Regensburg.

Time to digest and get back to the lab😊

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Jun 10

Scientific intense weeks come to an end✨
I’ve had the opportunity to share my work, connect with brilliant researchers (also former colleagues☺️) and get inspiring ideas at 3 confs 📆 where I enjoyed outstanding keynotes by Elika Bergelson, Damian Blasi and more!

#WILD2025 #ISP2025 #ABCDmeeting

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 20

We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (levante-network.org). This position is ideal for folks wanting to be the interface between a cool scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. Think of it as a technical product manager, but for science!

We are seeking a Research Scientist for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE (Learning Variability Network Exchange). LEVANTE is a global research network to improve our understanding of variability in learning and development through coordinated data collection. The project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation; learn more at http://levante-network.org.

This position is a mix of scientific work and work with a software development team: we are looking for someone to act as the interface between the scientific goals of the project and our team of ~6 software engineers who work to implement different aspects of our web platform including researcher management, tasks and surveys, and data processing. We expect the role to be ideal for someone with technical experience from their scientific work and an interest in building good tools for other scientists through software development.

This position is appropriate for recent PhD grads and candidates with postdoctoral experience; exact title and compensation will be relative to experience post-PhD. The RS will contribute to – and have the opportunity to lead on – research products including papers and presentations. The LEVANTE team is a large and lively group pushing the boundaries of cross-cultural developmental measurement through a combination of technical innovation and psychometrics. The RS will also be part of the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, a broad interdisciplinary group interested in using data to understand human development.

Requirements for the position include:
- some kind of scientific software development experience (examples include developing experiments, computational models, or complex data analyses)
- theoretical knowledge of psychology or a related discipline (e.g., cognitive science, neuroscience), ideally doing behavioral measurements of some kind
- project management experience on a technical or scientific project with multiple participants

Additional optional qualifications include:
- experience with modern database-backed web applications
- experience with measure development or psychometrics
- R data analysis experience

Applicants should submit a current CV, a short (~1 page) coverletter stating their qualifications for the position, and a link to a github account (preferred) or other code sample.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 13

Can you use the literature to estimate developmental changes in key cognitive and linguistic abilities?

Spoiler: maybe not!

anjie cao | 曹安洁 @anjiecao.bsky.social · May 12

Our meta-meta-analysis is officially out! (w/ Molly Lewis, Sho Tsuji, @chbergma.bsky.social, @acristia.bsky.social, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social!)

Estimating age-related change in infants’ linguistic and cognitive development using (meta-)meta-analysis

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Estimating Age‐Related Change in Infants' Linguistic and Cognitive Development Using (Meta‐)Meta‐Analysis

Developmental psychology focuses on how psychological constructs change with age. In cognitive development research, however, the specifics of this emergence is often underspecified. Researchers ofte...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · May 2

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · May 3

One week left to apply!

Re current events: Theoretically this could also be a postdoc position - get in touch if you are interested.

Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Apr 10

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.

We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.

4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!

tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology

www.leuphana.de

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Apr 29

Si teniu o coneixeu famílies amb nadons prematurs, potser us interessa la xerrada que faré sobre el seu desenvolupament lingüístic a través de l'Associació SomPrematurs 👶

Dilluns dia 12, a les 19h, gratuïta.
Apunteu-vos: somprematurs.cat/es/mc-events...

@sdrecercaupf.bsky.social @upf.edu

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Center for Brain and Cognition @cbc-upf.bsky.social · Apr 15

Si tens un nadó entre 3 i 24 mesos, vine i participa als estudis del BabyLaB UPF al campus Ciutadella. Apunta't:

www.upf.edu/web/cbclab/b...

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · Apr 15

New Peekbank preprint! A snapshot of what we've learned so far about developmental change in word recognition using the large-scale repository of infant eyetracking data we've been building (~ 2000 infants; ~3500 individual test sessions)

Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Apr 14

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

title of paper (in text) plus author list

Time course of word recognition for kids at different ages.

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 12

✨Playback of #teap2025 (Part 2)

A thought-provoking symposium on #StatisticalLearning & its role in #language & #reading, chaired by @troembke.bsky.social & @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social. Great contributions by @mireiamarimon.bsky.social, Haoyu Zhou, Lukas Hauser & @matildellen.bsky.social!

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Mar 12

Happy to officially announce that @alanlangus.bsky.social and I were awarded a @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social Open Up grant to investigate infants’ minds🧠

We were delighted to meet all other grantees in Hannover & we’re looking forward to see you again in two years.
#VolkswagenStiftung #kickoff

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Mar 10

Day 1 #TeaP2025 with a great talk by Prof. Wolfe & a successful symposium on Statistical Learning (thanks @troembke.bsky.social @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social).

Also, if you’re in Germany & a bit tired of ethics applications check out #Ethiktool (a software solution to support the ethical assessment)

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German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 8

Join our #teap2025 symposium & discuss #StatisticalLearning & its role in #language & #reading!

March 10 | 17:00–18:30

Chairs: @troembke.bsky.social, @xeniaschmalz.bsky.social

Speakers: @mireiamarimon.bsky.social, @matildellen.bsky.social, Lukas Hauser, Haoyu Zhou, Xenia Schmalz

German Word Nerd Network @gewonnofficial.bsky.social · Mar 6

Congratulations to our #GeWoNN members on their accepted symposia at the #teap2025 Conference! Special thanks to the organising committee @teap2025.bsky.social, and we're looking forward to the event next week in Frankfurt!

Check out our website below for more news on our symposia!

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Feb 20

Then Mac text-to-speech synthesizer or AmazonPolly might work :) good luck!

Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Feb 20

Do you need the audio directly or the potential words? ChatGPT has bad metalinguistic skills, I haven’t been successful with it in creating stimuli. Depending on the kind of German pseudowords you need, I might be able to help🤓

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Feb 19

I know we all have much more important things to worry about right now. But just hopping on to say how fascinating it is that so many fans of the delicious Tony's Chocolonely fail to notice the second "L" in the name until you point it out. It's like a linguistic illusion.

A photograph of a big colourful (red, blue and yellow) bar of Tony's Chocolonely milk chocolate.

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Shravan Vasishth @shravanvasishth.bsky.social · Feb 13

Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :)

vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

The Ninth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology

vasishth.github.io

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Feb 1

Our new paper is out! ✨ We explored the use of acoustic and statistical cues by French speakers and French-learning infants in a word segmentation task

direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Use of Statistical and Acoustic Cues for Speech Segmentation in French-Learning 7-Month-Old Infants and French-Speaking Adults

Abstract. Young infants can segment continuous speech with acoustic as well as statistical cues. Understanding how these cues interact can be informative about how infants solve the segmentation probl...

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DevStart @devstart.org · Dec 11

Ever wondered how to master eye-tracking in developmental science? 🤔 Join us at the next #DevStart workshop (3–4 April 2025, London)! Hands-on tutorials, open-source tools, and a poster session to share your projects. 🤓 For more info and registration see the link below! 👇

DevStart_Workshop

Eye-Tracking Workshop for Developmental Scientists. Eye-tracking is a powerful tool for studying cognition, particularly in developmental science where participants like infants and young children can...

tommasoghilardi.github.io

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Mireia Marimon @mireiamarimon.bsky.social · Dec 6

Is there any way to check the instances of the verb “delve (into)” before vs. after chatGPT in non-English speaking countries? I had never it heard before, first saw it in chatGPT outputs, now I see it everywhere. I’ve used it so far to identify AI generated texts😅

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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan @natalieboll.bsky.social · Nov 28

Several PhD scholarships are available for joining the IDEALAB, an int. Grad School. Projects are carried out at 2 sites, e.g. Potsdam and Groningen or Sydney. Topics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Language Acquisition and Clinical Linguistics. phd-idealab.com/application/...

phd-idealab.com

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