Huge congratulations to @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social l who defended his PhD thesis today!! with his co-supervisor @sblldtrch.bsky.social and jury members @simonkirby.bsky.social @gboleda.bsky.social Paula Rubio Fernandez & Benjamin Spector.

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
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@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

La croisade anti-écrans part en vrille.
Pourquoi la tribune du 29 avril signée par cinq sociétés médicales est tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des résultats probants.
Ma nouvelle chronique en libre accès dans l'Express:
www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...

I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.

Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj

Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

A series of three studies provide evidence in infants for function application, the essence of compositionality, emerging before and outside the development of compositional language. @sblldtrch.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Does compositionality exist before/outside language? And what does non-linguistic compositionality mean btw? Some new thoughts and results on this: rdcu.be/ecVZI #ThoughtOrigin #ERC

This is really cool! I think we need that in France too at the moment. #todo

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Yes it seems that this is a topic that leads to this type of situation. She has been doing those experiments we were talking about back then (and more), cool stuff

Meanwhile in France…

Is perceptual novelty important in your research? We created, standardised, and validated a database of truly novel perceptual stimuli (matched to BOSS objects on size, contrast, luminance & colourfulness) so you don't have to! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#cogpsy #psychology #EEG #neuroskyence

Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning

Review by Mireille Babineau, Monica Barbir, Alex de Carvalho, Naomi Havron, Isabelle Dautriche & Anne Christophe

Web: go.nature.com/3Vpz6Vh
PDF: rdcu.be/dJTTt

#psychology #psychscisky #devpsych

Parents! I am looking for the most popular baby sign teaching program in your country (a website, a insta/YouTube account, a book, whatever). Many thanks !

Oh it looks like people are actually there! :) Let see how this goes under the blue sky...