Language&LearningLab

We are a child development research group at the University of Toronto, under the direction of Prof. Patricia Ganea.

[Language&LearningLab @LangLearn_TO]

Some highlights of the research that's happening in our lab right now!

[Language&LearningLab @LangLearn_TO]

@nabeelqu @Ori_Friedman @xphilosopher @jfkominsky @angelanyh This is what we proposed as well for children’s failures on these ambiguous scenarios. They may misinterpret the intent of the question or construe the scenario differently than what the experimenter intended if the causal relations are not clearly specified.

[Language&LearningLab @LangLearn_TO]

Introduction to the special issue in Phil Trans B on Thinking about possibilities by Jonathan Redshaw and Patricia Ganea. Check it out for integrative summary of the issue and open questions.

https://t.co/mFH4uZJHMX

[Adam Bulley @Adamdbulley]

A new special issue in Phil Trans B takes aim at one of the most fascinating aspects of the mind: the ability to think about possibilities.

What might happen next? What might have happened but didn't? How do we get to grips with possible worlds?

A thread 🧵...

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@ShaliniRachel Thank you for your great contribution!

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@Ori_Friedman Happy to see this issue out. Thank you for your great contribution to it!

[Myrto Grigoroglou @MGrigoroglou]

Paper is part of the #PhilTransB theme issue “Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny” https://t.co/KIoMuxg8Zy. Special thanks to Jonathan Redshaw and Patricia Ganea @LangLearn_TO for editing and @NSERC_CRSNG and @SSHRC_CRSH for funding (5/5).

[Myrto Grigoroglou @MGrigoroglou]

Our review paper “Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities” is out 🎉. w. Patricia Ganea @LangLearn_TO https://t.co/216YxI9BMD a 🧵(1/n)

[Language&LearningLab @LangLearn_TO]

@Adamdbulley @BasicBooks Started reading the book and I love it!

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Today's #PhilTransB theme issue explores our capacity to imagine different possibilities; how this ability develops, what it enables, and how it evolved. https://t.co/pcm35u7n3T @UQPsych @LangLearn_TO

[Stuart Ritchie @StuartJRitchie]

My new post is about Growth Mindset, and how the claims about it have diminished over time. Is this the fabled “decline effect”? And what does it have to do with Gerry Adams? https://t.co/xjjddbZN3p

[Language&LearningLab @LangLearn_TO]

We have an open postdoctoral position in our lab. The projects will focus on the role of language in counterfactual reasoning and the relation between counterfactual and scientific reasoning skills. Retweet please and DM if interested.

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@The_CARE_Lab @CRC_CRC Congratulations Chloe! 🎉

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@JoBMahr Great news! So excited to have you in Toronto soon. Congratulations!!!

[Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social @proflaurenmyers]

Strouse, G. A., & Ganea, P. A. (2021). Learning to learn from video? 30-month-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101574. https://t.co/XzJKmegxwg
@GabStrouse @LangLearn_TO
24/n🧵

[Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social @proflaurenmyers]

🚨Now available📢 Special Issue on digital media & children under 3 yrs of age, which I guest edited (w/ Martha Arterberry @ColbyChildDev) at Infant Behavior & Development. We hope it will inspire new questions & innovations in this field.
THREAD of 25 papers, please RT!
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@vhsouthgate @DEVOMINDLab @DFF_raad Congratulations! 🎉👏

[Dr. Allison Master, @allisonmaster.bsky.social @AllisonMaster]

IT'S HERE! Please take a look at our new open-access PNAS paper, “Gender stereotypes about interests start early and cause gender disparities in computer science and engineering”! (1/n) https://t.co/4vDpGa6Y1V

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@ELO_Project @APHDatOISE @StephanieBuono @OISEUofT @UofT Congratulations Dr. Buono! 👏👏👏

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@andrewshtulman Please do! My opportunity to figure that out passed already ;)