Christopher Cox

Postdoc @ @AarhusUni (@interact_minds). Interests: acoustic phonetics, phonological development, parenting, vocal exploration, Bayesian stats. He/Him

[Christopher Cox @ChrisMMCox]

So happy to share our new paper in @NatureHumBehav! Why do we change how we speak when interacting with infants?. Does IDS in British English sound similar to IDS in Korean or Danish? Do the acoustics of IDS change as the child develops more sophisticated language knowledge?

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

This meta-analysis by Cox et al. examines different features of infant-directed speech (IDS) across languages and infant ages. Results suggest cross-linguistic tendencies and that caregivers adjust the properties of IDS to suit infants’ changing needs.
https://t.co/WufvoPqrIa

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Our new paper “Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?” was just presented at #EMNLP2024! This is work led by @stevenyfeng, with @noahdgoodman.

https://t.co/QXL9FXx5Ps

[Lior Noy @lior_noy]

De-sync is out!

How does creative flow emerge from breaking routines? In a new paper, Julien Laroche, Asaf Bachrach and Lior Noy explore how disrupting the synchronization between the elements that form our thoughts and actions fosters innovation and collective creativity. 1/2

[Sam Wass @ProfSamWass]

Just out 📣 in Child Development - Needing to shout to be heard? Caregiver under-responsivity and disconnection between vocal signalling and autonomic arousal in infants from chaotic households. With @drceliasmith and others 👇1/2 https://t.co/p62tuX0jo2

[Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli]

New pre-print (tx @ChrisMMCox!): The social context of turn-taking https://t.co/Mj0dHIlwYT Comments welcome!
TL;DR: Response latency in conversation depends on a multidimensional interplay of individual differences, turn-by turn information flow & contextual affordances.

[Uta Frith @utafrith]

A nice explore-exploit paradigm for 3-7 year-olds
by Kim, Berry & Carlson
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Children's Persistence in the Context of Diminishing Rewards https://t.co/kamKvoQUtg

[Cognition @CognitionJourn]

"Curious Choices: Infants’ moment-to-moment information sampling is driven by their exploration history"

📢New paper from: Elena Altmann, Marina Bazhydai, & Gert Westermann

https://t.co/0bUnUGFPqX

🧵👇(1/5)

[JASA @ASA_JASA]

This paper proposes a signal processing method for bat call signal analysis. https://t.co/r8T7EDh7hK

#acoustics

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

I will tolerate recurrent laryngeal nerve slander no longer! It's actually the result of several elegant solutions to difficult problems in embryology, and the length is a non-issue. A 🧵 1/13

[Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher]

This massive analysis points to something fundamental about what really affects the results of studies

- Effect of *population* (culture, age, etc.) is relatively small

- Effect of design (e.g., the specifics of the stimuli) is considerably larger

https://t.co/L1Un3AeECw

[David Omer @DavidOmer_]

🎉Exciting news! Our lab's first paper, "Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates," is now published in @Science! 🐒 Dive into our findings on how marmoset monkeys use vocal labels similar to human names and dialects. Check it out! 1/6
https://t.co/7iHBLByfRW

[Gal Raz @_galraz_]

1/ Excited to share a new preprint with @anjie_cao (co-first), @rebecca_saxe and @mcxfrank: "A stimulus-computable rational model of habituation in infants and adults" https://t.co/03IK1OGt08

[Nick Card @NS_Card]

Our new study is out today in the New England Journal of Medicine! We demonstrate a speech neuroprosthesis that decodes the attempted speech of a man with ALS into text with 97.5% accuracy, enabling him to communicate with his family, friends, and colleagues in his own home. 1/9

[Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli]

New version of our "The Development of Turn Taking" paper: https://t.co/2N7us2KP0t w @ChrisMMCox @ethanweed et al. Sharper framing but still same analyses and results as in this video: https://t.co/CnGVQvD3uw

Feedback always welcome! We'll be working on turn-taking for a while.

[Michal Ramot @MichalRamot]

Very excited to share the first preprint from our lab!
https://t.co/BY4iMinKmA
We develop a metric to score how well different tasks reliably separate individuals. We demonstrate this on a dataset of 250+ participants, and provide a simple tool for assessing old and new tasks. 🧵

[Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli]

- Autistic Children Are Faster at Turn-Taking Than Neurotypical Controls Especially with Unfamiliar Interlocutors, but Equally Adjust to Their Interlocutors - Saturday 11.30-13.30 - Poster 056

[Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli]

How to model & understand turn-taking temporal dynamics in autistic & neurotypical children & adolescents ? Come to our #INSAR2024 posters.
- The Development of Turn-Taking Skills in Autistic and TD Children - Friday 11.30-13.30 - Poster 046 (preprint https://t.co/DCWq9TXZkZ) 1/

[Vivian Hanwen Zhang @hv_zhang]

Turn-taking is crucial for the development of communication, but why do infants engage in the game of vocal turn-taking? For answers, check out TWO of my papers out this month in Infancy https://t.co/AFxv2MDMsv and Infant Behavior & Development https://t.co/Gc1jiab1Ep a 🧵

[Martin Zettersten @m_zettersten]

Our mega-analysis paper on infant-directed speech preference is now out at Open Mind, combining data from a multi-lab replication (@Many_Babies 1) and a community-augmented meta-analysis. w/ @ChrisMMCox, @chbergma, Maya Mathur, @mcxfrank + a 🌟 team
https://t.co/3nefNvcdGm 1/

[Interacting Minds @interact_minds]

PhD Defence tomorrow 1pm (CET) by the brilliant Chris Cox @ChrisMMCox, on his thesis:
"How Social Contingency Shapes the Content and Structure of Early Child-Caregiver Interactions"
Chris has done some fantastic and impressive work - come and enjoy!
https://t.co/sstQIeevrt