Ed Donnellan

Ed Donnellan

@eddonnellan.bsky.social

Postdoc at Warwick Uni. Keen primate. Interested in growing things and occasionally playing instruments. Borderline utility cyclist

309 Followers 215 Following 27 Posts Joined Sep 2024
1 week ago

too coherent - have you tried going bigger picture?

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1 month ago

Don't think that crossed my mind

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1 month ago

Apparently I was convinced my (turns out) little sister was definitely going to be a labrador

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1 month ago
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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.

To paraphrase Jane Goodall, “now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept cows as human.”

To paraphrase Veronika the cow, "moo, that hits the spot".

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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4 months ago
Flyer for a study at the University of Warwick. Text reads: Language learning study. Does guessing words help you learn? We are looking for 4-year-olds for a fun study to help find out how children learn new words and how sentences are put together. Calling mini scientists! Recruiting 4-year-olds now! Help Warwick Research with Kids group with exciting new research! 3 sessions either on the University of Warwick campus or at home. you receive 3 books and a £25 voucher. Interested? Email Ed at ed.donnellan@warwick.ac.uk for more info, or scan the QR code to register your interest in taking part. The QR code directs to a qualtrics survey available at https://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6XbQRngMAUrOEIK

At the Warwick Babylab we have an exciting new study about 4-year-olds' language learning. If you are keen to take part with your 4-year-old, please register your interest using this form and we'll get in touch with more information (warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...).

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4 months ago

It only just about works if you say it out loud

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4 months ago

"I get really frustrated when I can't think of the superfamily containing Hylobatidae, Pongidae and Hominidae."

"Hominoid."

"Yeah so am I."

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5 months ago

Sofa crisp roulette

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5 months ago
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Bonobo 'Yuli' and her one week old baby boy inside the house 1 of 2 @twycrosszoo.bsky.social #bonobo #primates

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5 months ago

These are absolutely fantastic. Only got the slightest glimpse the other day

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7 months ago
OSF

📣📣📣🎉🎉🎉 Our very first Stage 1 RR is accepted in principle at Developmental Science!!! All thanks to the hard work of @eddonnellan.bsky.social brilliant collab with @katemessenger.bsky.social and of course funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk Data collection starting soon! Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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8 months ago

Last night I had breakfast for dinner. Today I had breakfast for breakfast. And they said I could be tamed.

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9 months ago
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What We'll Build A story about a parent's boundless love & life's endless opportunities. A father & daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together.

oliverjeffers.com/books/what-w...

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9 months ago
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Benjamin Zephaniah's People Need People, illustrated by Nila Aye People Need People to tease and please, to learn from and to celebrate with. Benjamin Zephaniah reminds us of our human need for company.

bookwagon.co.uk/product/benj...

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10 months ago

Conclave 2: Pope in the City

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10 months ago

Come on fungi. Do your stuff already

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1 year ago

Weird it wasn't a Polar Bus Replacement

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1 year ago
Harvested sprout stalks

How soon is now

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1 year ago

Sounds perfect! "Oh no, it's a two-day hike to reply to that email".

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1 year ago

Binoculars?

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1 year ago
Sprout stalks and a sunrise

Soon...

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1 year ago

I mostly do research into language development, chimp communication and information-seeking behaviour.

Currently collecting data on prediction error-based language learning in 4 year olds (e.g., osf.io/rfq6u, osf.io/v5pzb/)

See pubs here: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

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1 year ago
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Inconsistent flanker congruency effects across stimulus types and age groups: A cautionary tale - Behavior Research Methods The flanker task is a common measure of selective attention and response competition across populations, age groups, and experiential contexts. Adapting it for different uses often involves changing m...

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
This paper creates a combined accuracy and RT measure (SRT) from Flanker tasks, but the raw data includes them separately... Might be nice to compare ddm against their findings.. (OK I'll stop)

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1 year ago

In about 2 years we should have some flanker data from ~95 four year olds... So hold tight

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1 year ago

Sounds like they should be trying to find flanker data then! Got to be some open data out there (probably best from kids so there's good variability in accuracy and RTs)

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1 year ago

Ah yes - correct. On No-Go trials you only get RTs for incorrect

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1 year ago

Caveat - actually participants were pretty accurate, so may not be what you're looking for - though there's some variation in the RTs.

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1 year ago

n=564, 50 trials. Loads of other variables you could use as IVs in there too. Let me know if you want me to explain the data structure...

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1 year ago
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Random item slope regression Hosted on the Open Science Framework

You could try the data accompanying our Psych Methods paper (osf.io/g7nbw/). There's a Go/No-Go task (described here under "Reaction Time Experiments" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...) - which you can treat as a binary response (correct or not) with RTs.

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