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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Aug 13

We're ecstatic to be talking today with Dr. Vlad Ayzenberg (‪@vayzenb.bsky.social‬) about his recent paper in Science Advances exploring the mechanisms that underpin object recognition in young children and adults. Stay tuned!

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨 New ep! We talk w/ Professor Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) about her dev sci path, training w/ legends (Woodward, Wynn, Bloom, Santos), & her Nature Comms paper showing 5-day-olds prefer helpers over hinderers. Plus: reconciling ManyBabies & replication woes.

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Moral kombat (with Kiley Hamlin)

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Aug 6

Want to know what makes today so special?!

We get to chat with the inimitable Professor Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) about her science journey, her recent paper in Nature Communications showing that sociomoral evaluation may be innate, and more!

Stay tuned for the episode!

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Jenny Wang 👶 🧮 @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social · Jul 21

An inspirational and fun conversation with @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social!

The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 21

In case you missed it, our discussion with Professor Rebecca Saxe (@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬) is live! Give it a listen, why don't ya?

The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 19

🚨 New Episode! 🚨 We're thrilled to release another installment of "A conversation with a luminary," featuring *over 2 hours* with Professor Rebecca Saxe. We discuss her early life, science journey, mentorship under Nancy Kanwisher, her Theory of Mind work, & more! So fun!

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 21

In case you missed it, our discussion with Professor Rebecca Saxe (@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬) is live! Give it a listen, why don't ya?

The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 19

🚨 New Episode! 🚨 We're thrilled to release another installment of "A conversation with a luminary," featuring *over 2 hours* with Professor Rebecca Saxe. We discuss her early life, science journey, mentorship under Nancy Kanwisher, her Theory of Mind work, & more! So fun!

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A conversation with a luminary #5: Rebecca Saxe

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 19

tagging: ‪Rebecca Saxe (@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social)

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 19

🚨 New Episode! 🚨 We're thrilled to release another installment of "A conversation with a luminary," featuring *over 2 hours* with Professor Rebecca Saxe. We discuss her early life, science journey, mentorship under Nancy Kanwisher, her Theory of Mind work, & more! So fun!

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A conversation with a luminary #5: Rebecca Saxe

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 16

The good times keep rolling (at least for the pod)! We're so thrilled to be chatting today with Professor Rebecca Saxe (‪@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬) about her scientific journey, remarkable career, and much more.

This will be another installment of "A conversation with a luminary". Stay tuned!

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 10

Reupping this ↓

Oh, and spoiler: we'll be chatting with the inimitable Dr. Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) on Aug 6 about that new Nature Comms paper showing that 5-day-olds are sensitive to helping & hindering! Could sociomoral evaluation (or its ingredients) really be innate?!

The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jun 29

We want to hear from you, dear listener! Who would you like to hear us chat with on the next episode of The It's Innate! podcast? Nominate them in the comments below!

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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · Jul 2

My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social ‬is now out in Science Advances!

We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime

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Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children

The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.

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Victoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social · Jul 9

Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications

A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 8

Looks like we might have to have Dr. Hamlin and/or Dr. Geraci on to discuss this super cool paper!

Kiley Hamlin @jkileyhamlin.bsky.social · Jul 8

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering.
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Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions

Nature Communications - Abilities to distinguish between prosocial and antisocial actions are crucial for sustaining cooperative systems. Here, the authors show that human newborns with just 5 days...

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Zsuzsa Kaldy @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Shameless self-promotion #DevPsy #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨 New Episode! Our recent chat w/ Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy (@zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social ) is up! We chat about her cog sci journey, her work on infant working memory, and a recent paper in which she argues that attention and working memory work in concert to pursue goals. So much fun!

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A happy little dance between attention and working memory (with Zsuzsa Kaldy)

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Zsuzsa Kaldy @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thanks, @deontbenton.bsky.social and @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social for letting me talk about my career and my beloved mentors 🙂

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 8

We're reposting this because in the previous post we misspelled Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy's name.

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨 New Episode! Our recent chat w/ Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy (@zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social ) is up! We chat about her cog sci journey, her work on infant working memory, and a recent paper in which she argues that attention and working memory work in concert to pursue goals. So much fun!

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A happy little dance between attention and working memory (with Zsuzsa Kaldy)

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jun 29

We want to hear from you, dear listener! Who would you like to hear us chat with on the next episode of The It's Innate! podcast? Nominate them in the comments below!

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jun 29

We want to hear from you, dear listener! Who would you like to hear us chat with on the next episode of The It's Innate! podcast? Nominate them in the comments below!

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 New episode! In this episode, we chat with graduate student extraordinaire, Sholei Croom, about their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions". The paper explored whether learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.

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Seeing (can help you infer what someone else) is believing (with Sholei Croom)

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · Jun 23

Super fun to do! Thanks @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social

The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨 New episode! We are excited to be releasing another "A conversation with a luminary" episode. In it, we chat with Professor Nora Newcombe (@noranewcombe.bsky.social) about her science journey, the geometric module, empiricism & nativism, among other things. Enjoy!

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A conversation with a luminary #4: Nora Newcombe

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jun 23

🚨 New episode! We are excited to be releasing another "A conversation with a luminary" episode. In it, we chat with Professor Nora Newcombe (@noranewcombe.bsky.social) about her science journey, the geometric module, empiricism & nativism, among other things. Enjoy!

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A conversation with a luminary #4: Nora Newcombe

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jun 18

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wondering when the next episode is going to drop? Fair question. We’ve got great convos waiting to be released, & we just need help getting them out!

This is why we're looking for a PhD student in developmental cognitive science (or related field) to join our team as an editor!

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · May 28

We are beyond excited to be talking with the distinguished Professor Nora Newcombe (@noranewcombe.bsky.social) today about her journey in science, her work on spatial thinking, among other things! Stay tuned for the episode!

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · Apr 28

So thrilled to announce that we've released another "A conversation with a luminary" episode. In this long episode, we chat with luminary Professor Susan Carey! She talks about her career, the evolution of developmental cognitive science, iconic representations, and more!

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Episode 26: A conversation with a luminary #3: Susan Carey

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