Moira (Molly) Dillon

Cognitive Scientist 👩‍🔬 🧠 investigating the origins and development of abstract thought; Assistant Professor @NYUPsych and PI of @LDM_NYU

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

Thanks to @PsychScience for interviewing me for the Jan/Feb issue of the #Observer on #PsychSci and #AI. 👶🤖 Check out my interview here! https://t.co/Y9pGc4tSqs

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

@MBarrettoGarcia @gershbrain Thank you! 🥹 (also stay tuned for our report of the next two interventions coming soon...)

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

Thanks to @NSF, @LDM_NYU, and the participating families! 🚸

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

📢 Paper published📢 "Seeing the Forest but Naming the Trees: An Object-Over-Place Bias in Learning Noun Labels" is now out in Open Mind w/ @YiLin987! https://t.co/UIL5Qq10CF

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

These results expand the symbolic scope of prior studies on object biases in drawing 🖼️ to object biases in language 💬 (see https://t.co/NeMN7AfO35), and they expand the spatial domains of prior studies characterizing the language of objects and places.

[labdevelopingmind @LDM_NYU]

Last Friday, we celebrated the LDM's 7th Birthday! It was an afternoon filled with fun party games, lots of laughter, and yummy macarons!

We are so grateful for the incredible LDM family of researchers and child scientists we have built over the years. Excited for year #8! 🥳

[Brian J. Reilly @Brian_J_Reilly]

"what seem like unitary concepts in ordinary language are never quite so, always already open to different evocations depending on context. If so, this may explain philosophical confusions (Reilly 2019)…. My example here again is geometry…." https://t.co/WYsDo1u3r3

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

The précis, 25 commentaries, and replies are also all available for readers' enjoyment! https://t.co/MbzRCKkvBY

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

Paper published! 📜 Check out my longer-format commentary, "Divisive language" in @BBSJournal. I explore the relation between core knowledge 👶🧠 and language 💬 in response to Elizabeth Spelke's spectacular book 📘, "What babies know" https://t.co/NeMd6lt10F

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

@standupmaths Amazing! Congratulations, Matt!

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

Thanks to the families who participated and to @DARPA MCS for supporting our research! Please feel free to reach out with any comments or questions: We'd love to hear your feedback! 💬 6/6

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

🔔 Preprint alert!🔔"15-month-olds’ understanding of imitation in social and instrumental contexts" 👶 by @ShannonYasuda, @WenjieWLi, Deisy Martinez, @LakeBrenden, and me! https://t.co/vfP1CMnZ2u 1/6

[Moira (Molly) Dillon @Moira_Dillon]

When obstacles and goals are present, toddlers interpret imitative actions as instrumental rather than social, revealing early limits in understanding the social goals of imitation. Insights like these shape our understanding of human social learning 👩‍🏫and AI development 🤖. 5/6