#dev-ersity in academia

---enveloping devpsych folks' development worldwide

An initiative by @NikitaGhodke04 & @MunnaRShainy to promote #devpsych and its under-represented researchers

[#dev-ersity in academia @deversityinacad]

"Hello, World!" 👶🏻 #AcademicTwitter

Welcome to #devpsych Journal Club - a big initiative taken by two very small people in the pyramid of the research arena as we came across apparent disparities in awareness of #devpsych as a subject in developing and underdeveloped countries.

[Federica Bulgarelli @Fede_Bulgarelli]

New paper out in Developmental Science with @bergelsonlab! We asked whether the acoustic properties of language input for individual words also predict age of production. TLDR: Yes – variability in how words sound predicts when kids first say them. https://t.co/KxDcjV21uu (1/n)

[Stefanie Hoehl @HoehlStefanie]

🚨 New pre-print 🚨 We find that individual differences in 6-month-olds' Peak Alpha Frequency in the #EEG relate to their saccadic latencies in a predictive cueing task. https://t.co/6QqwBvqVJH via @OSFramework led by @ArioliMartina & @alicjabrzo @kinderstudien

[MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics @MPI_NL]

Multifaceted nature of early vocabulary development: Connecting child characteristics with parental input types. New paper by Göksun et al. @DilayKaradoller. https://t.co/UKqf11uvbN.

[Dr Caylee Jayde Cook @cayls_cook]

📢Read our latest #openaccess article with @JCgntn: https://t.co/EX6jxEcyY0 Risk and Protective Factors for Executive Function in Vulnerable South African Preschool-Age Children!

[Heather Lynne Kosakowski @heatherlkos]

We know infants have face-selective responses in FFA, suggesting they perceive faces as distinct from other objects. But do regions that support more abstract social and cognitive inferences respond to faces at the same time as FFA? https://t.co/r7m3aBh1Zl (2/n)

[Dr Suzanne Aussems @SuzanneAussems]

Hot off the press. Do 14–17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings? I've recently presented this work at #IASCL2024 and #CogSci2024, and now the paper is out in JASA! Please check it out: https://t.co/1VGfOrOUq4 #iconicity #openaccess

[Brenden Lake @LakeBrenden]

What does a small language model learn (trained from scratch) given just slices of one child's linguistic input? Find out at @yulu_qin's #CogSci2024 poster today (P1-E-26). Paper here, https://t.co/CMSj4hdjGG

[Natalia Vélez (natvelali.bsky.social @ 🦋) @natvelali]

Tibor Tauzin, on how infants point to satisfy the epistemic needs of their communicative partners #CogSci2024

[Brenden Lake @LakeBrenden]

Today @WenjieWLi introduces new AI benchmark for identifying Agency, Affiliation, Belief, and Intention, inspired by infant cognition. Check it out the poster (P2-E-244) at 1! Paper: https://t.co/zNcGzaoraw

[labdevelopingmind @LDM_NYU]

The LDM is excited to announce that we will have two presenters at the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development!

We will be posting more information about timings as the conference approaches. We are so proud and excited for our researchers!

[Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @FIT_NGIn]

💻Register here: https://t.co/geeiIRDQIA
#CogSci2024 #FITNG2024 #neuroscience #neuroimaging

[ICIS @Infantstudies]

Using a paradigm that synchronizes head-mounted eye-tracking and motion capture, @drewhabney, @Cmj6767, Linda Smith & @Chen_Yu_CY (2023) found that 22mo toddlers’ pre-reach phase of an action sequence determines subsequent reaching behavior. #infancypapers https://t.co/qQx8IztaCa

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: https://t.co/5OogaxRymH! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

[ICIS @Infantstudies]

.@suraertas @sumeyyekoskulu @ebru_ger Ulf Liszkowski & @aylinkntay1 (2023): infants' index-finger pointing but not whole-hand pointing at 14mos predicted lexical processing efficiency prospectively at 18mos but not concurrently at 14mos #infancypapers https://t.co/XqywwDkMJo

[Jason Wong @jasonfx]

Studies on childhood development to follow and keep an eye on.

Practices that may Increase Infant/Toddler IQ
Breastfeeding and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids linked to higher IQ scores in infants. https://t.co/cobKaO717c

For low-birthweight infants, a modified version of the Mother-Infant Transaction Program improved cognitive (but not motor) outcomes 4.5 and 6.5 IQ points at 3 and 5 years respectively. https://t.co/14N2aqKgFM

[Nadja Althaus @NadjaAlthaus]

Excited this is out now - including my chapter on infant eye tracking and looking time studies!

[ICIS @Infantstudies]

New Baby Blog post by Mara Tissera Luna: Voices from the Field: Community-Based Solutions for Young Children in Guatemala #infantstudies #Research https://t.co/9zqlq4M3eu

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Come see all these amazing folks presenting their work at #CogSci2024! I’m sorry I won’t be there!

[Claudia Sehl @ClaudiaSehl]

Learn about our recent research at #CogSci2024 @cogsci_soc! 🚲🌷🌇🇳🇱

(Also, check out our new proceedings paper on children predicting the sunk cost bias
📄 https://t.co/aPIZINGFIE)

@Ori_Friedman @UwaterlooPsych