So very true - just had someone ask me to send them the stimuli from an experiment we ran 15 years ago. Not only did it send me down memory lane looking for the stimuli and what my lab was doing 15 years ago, but just the thrill that someone is interested in what I did 15 years ago.
New @sfb1528.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social publication. We show that mothers are worthy of the pedagogical assumption: they preferentially sample information that fills their child's knowledge gaps and children learn best from maternal sampling: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
All of this work only possible because of @sfb1528.bsky.social and @dfg.de - learning happens in social interactions, lets study it there!
Bothe et al goes older - using our custom-made Dyadic Interaction Platform - in social interactions, while older children show a transient active learning benefit, this dissipates quickly and is modulated by whom they are interacting with (their mothers, fathers or friends) doi.org/10.1111/sode...
2 new papers: Madhavan et al study the dynamics of episodes of joint attention in caregiver-infant interactions. We find that infants initiate more episodes of joint attention and more often to familiar objects. Mothers follow infants' attention to label familiar objects more doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
💥New paper alert! Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence (with @reutshachnai.bsky.social)
One of my favorites! If you’re curious about what we’ve been up to in @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social, take a look!
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Early career researcher: Are you thinking about writing an ERC , Emmy Noether Proposal, or Lower Saxony AI Group application, and are you interested to work with us at @uni-goettingen.de and @goettingen-campus.de
One more week to apply for the PhD position on curiosity in early development (B4) in my group!
Now open 🚨 Call for Applications: at least 40 Doctoral Positions in the Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies @univie.ac.at Reach out if you are interested in applying for a position with me @kinderstudien.bsky.social in @vdscobene.bsky.social careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
If you recently finished your PhD in ML for life science and are looking for a new job early next year, please apply! Göttingen is a lovely town and a great scientific environment.
🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to:
- Lead their own research group
- Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine
Curious about curiosity? Join us in Göttingen in our RTG Curiosity funded by @dfg.de
We are advertising **11 new PhD positions** in the second cohort of our RTG on Curiosity (details on all 11 positions here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...). One of these positions is in my group looking at the role of curiosity in early word learning (www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...)
Do older siblings help or hinder language development? And does it matter if they’re sisters or brothers? In our new paper we revisit the "birth order effect"... and took it a step further! w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social, Nora Serres and Natalia Kartushina 🙌 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy
Fully funded PhD on the "Origins of Infant Word Learning" @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Supervisor team: Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, @alissaferry.bsky.social, & @gertwestermann.bsky.social
#PsycSci #DevPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky 🧪
How Do We Learn Language?
Ever wonder how babies learn language? We've got answers! Join us for a fascinating chat with Prof. Nivedita Mani @nivimani.bsky.social from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, as we uncover the secrets of infant language acquisition.
🔗 youtu.be/M57a0VelgY8
So much fun talking to Svilen about the work going on in our lab. Great questions and a really engaging conversation.
Comic depictions of the first page of research papers in the language sciences, with titles that include the following: Just what the hell is a word anyway? See how this single cognitive process or brain area or neural oscillation or gene explains language! Based on the shapes of these old bones, Homo erectus could sing .... don't @ me. A baby looked at one thing more than the other, now we know the secret to grammar. If you think about it, every language is fundamentally the same, amirite? We taught a load of undergrads a made-up language, lol. On the staggering diversity of the many languages across the world. Remember the thing you said only humans could do, here's a video of a monkey / dolphin / corvid / octopus / honeybee doing it. I trained this AI with 80 billion tweets and it became head-writer for phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com).
#language #linguistics #science #academia
New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd.
We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇
Just published: our validated 23-item parent report measure of curiosity in infants 5-24 months of age (ITCQ), a single measure with subscales of sensory, investigative and interactive curiosity. With Elena Altmann, @marinabazhydai.bsky.social, Didar Karadag. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper out with Alina Matzerath, Hyo Gweon and @nivimani.bsky.social 🥳🎄
Infants (6-15 months) followed the gaze of an adult, a 5-year-old child, and an 11-month-old infant. Thus, infants consider not only adults but also peers and young children as potentially interesting social partners👶
Our graduate school on Curiosity officially started this month and our Theory kick-off is all set to get us inspired, thinking and talking to one another. While the in-person events are for graduate school members only, you can sign up for the lectures online here: uni-goettingen.de/de/vorschau_...
It's time for another ScienceCampus Paper alert! This time, we have two papers coming from the lab of @nivimani.bsky.social together with Raji Madhavan and Martina De Eccher.
Weather is bad, so why not reading their newest research over a ☕.
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Am Freitag (19.4.) startet Season 4 unserer beliebten chalk talk Reihe im Forum Wissen der Uni Göttingen. Wie immer Freitags ab 16:30, kostenlos und natürlich analog! Den Anfang macht Anne Schacht: Wer hat die Kontrolle über unser Lachen?
New paper alert 🚨 Our study (Madhavan, Malem, Mundry, Ackermann, @nivimani.bsky.social) on the validity + convergence of diff. measures of children's interest in natural object categories finds no significant associations between most measures, suggesting a need for further research s.gwdg.de/mG5H4L
Sitting in the sun, a cup of coffee and our newest SFB publication? ☕
Richarda Bothe, @nivimani.bsky.social (@primatecognition.bsky.social) and colleagues just published a new paper about the effects of arbitrary actions and words on infants' object categorization. #lazysunday s.gwdg.de/vSTSWF
Advertising 11 PhD positions in the RTG "Form-meaning mismatches". Project 3 - associated with my group - examines how word-form and word-meaning mismatches influence early word learning, expanding on this publication (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...).
Feel free to join our informal information event this Wednesday where you can get further information about how to apply to these positions, what awaits you in an RTG on Curiosity and much much more. Send an Email to rtg2906[at]uni-goettingen.de to register for the event
Just a little under a month to go to apply to 12 PhD and 2 postdoc positions in the new RTG on Curiosity. Positions available with foci in developmental psychology, behavioural biology, systems, computational and theoretical neuroscience: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...
Die Bauarbeiten beginnen! Das GT
besucht das neue Forschungszentrum "HuCaB" geleitet von
Anne Schacht; weitere beteiligte SFB-PIs: Alex Gail, StefanTreue, Peter Marschik, @larspenke.bsky.social, @nivimani.bsky.social; Hannes Rakoczy Michael Wibral, Alex Ecker; with @primatecognition.bsky.social
