Velisar

postdoc, developmental cognitive science @CECC, University of Copenhagen

[Velisar @VelisarM]

I’m happy to finally report the data from the main project of my phd. Over 8 conditions of 32 8mo-old infants, we tested the hypothesis that human cognition starts altercentric instead of egocentric (Southgate, 2013; 2020)
https://t.co/CkLkmTENUi
1/17

[Velisar @VelisarM]

@fchollet [maybe his account has been hacked?]

[Velisar @VelisarM]

@fchollet ...the very 'only core knowledge' that the ARC challenge people talk about was discovered with the Violation-of-Expectation paradigm in infants, basically perceptually familiar events that violate their prior expectations of how the world should function.

[Velisar @VelisarM]

Our direct test of infant altercentrism hypothesis is published now, open access, in Proceedings B Bio: https://t.co/Zuur3KvQLf
We explained what we did in this thread, and the new data collected since did not change our partial results: https://t.co/gwSssr5C3K

[Velisar @VelisarM]

I’m happy to finally report the data from the main project of my phd. Over 8 conditions of 32 8mo-old infants, we tested the hypothesis that human cognition starts altercentric instead of egocentric (Southgate, 2013; 2020)
https://t.co/CkLkmTENUi
1/17

[dora kampis @dora_kampis]

I invite applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position, on a project titled “The role of infants’ emerging self-perspective in memory development”, at @DEVOMINDLab @CopenhagenPsych

Job ad:
https://t.co/fZFTB1Gnui

for more info, get in touch with me :)
spread the word!

[Velisar @VelisarM]

Finally, we are running the First and Last conditions with 12mo-olds atm. They anticipate correctly in the Last (TB-like) condition. Not final, but 1y olds show a smaller effect in the First condition, suggesting a developmental progression out of the initial altercentrism.
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[Velisar @VelisarM]

I’m happy to finally report the data from the main project of my phd. Over 8 conditions of 32 8mo-old infants, we tested the hypothesis that human cognition starts altercentric instead of egocentric (Southgate, 2013; 2020)
https://t.co/CkLkmTENUi
1/17

[Velisar @VelisarM]

This is somehow in line with the altercentrism hypothesis (far from a result we predicted though): tracking the agent’s attention, rather than just gazing at the object, drives infants’ expectations.
16/17