David Barner

4/ If you're wanting to try this and have troubles let me know and I can try to help.

YouTube video by Gertrude App How to Supervise an iPhone with Apple Configurator in 2025

4/ I can't recommend one particular video (& I can tell you that the video I'll share leaves out critical info at critical steps), but here's one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7W1...

3/ This thing is powerful: You can exclude apps, including the app store, & create whatever kind of device you want. IMO it's what the screentime app SHOULD be (& easily could be if Apple really wanted to allow you to limit screentime for kids).

2/ The solution is Apple Configurator. It's meant for industry control over employee devices but works very well for parental controls or creating a dumb phone for adults. Configurator isn't super user friendly, but a day on Youtube did the trick, & my phone no longer dominates my consciousness.

1/ Dunno if anyone else cares about this, but a few years ago it became impossible to dumb-phone your iPhone using screentime settings (e.g., to remove web browser, etc.) b/c Safari just reappears in the App library. I recently discovered a way around this that cut my screen time by 2-3 hours a day.

She does think there are innate conceptual resources - proto-concepts. Just no innate concepts!

Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"

Hey Bsky, I am a journalist looking to speak with US health-care workers (doctors, nurses, specialists) who are moving to Canada. I'm curious to hear what their experience is like getting visas, licensed, moving. Overall easy or bureaucratic nightmare? DMs are open, HMU.

Next Monday 6/30, join us for session 3 on 🛠️Problem Solving🧠 !

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MCLS 2025 organizing committee standing in front of MCLS 2025 welcome slides

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(Small bases)

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️!

We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺
🔗 minds-making.github.io

June – July 2024, free & open to the public
(all career stages, all disciplines)

We conclude that smaller bases may be just as easy to learn as larger ones despite the more complex rule structure & therefore that if kids were trained on smaller bases they might learn rules earlier in development. Stay tuned for a study by Sebastian in Phil.Transactions RSB that explores this!

We found three main results: (1) that the size of a base had little effect on learning, (2) that learners struggled to acquire multiplicative rules while learning additive rules more easily, (3) learning numbers in a count routine improved memory for words, but impaired map them to meanings.

So, we trained adults on a bunch of bases, with and without counting structure, and tested both their recall of trained words, and their ability to "guess" the labels for untrained words (e.g., they were trained up to 10 and tested up to 20).

Second, studies find that kids are slow to notice rules for combining numbers. But rules only become apparent in base-10 systems once you count past ~30 when structures begin to repeat. This raises the possibility rules might emerge earlier in systems that require rules for smaller numbers

Two things are interesting: First, children learning base-10 typically learn number words as part of a counting system, though historically this has not always been the case, and some number systems - especially those with bases - do not.

Historically, many base systems have existed, in addition to just base-10, but most empirical work is on base-10, raising the question of whether attested stages of learning are specific to the oddities of base-10.

Learning a Novel Number System: The Role of Compositional Rules and Counting Procedures Humans count to indefinitely large numbers by recycling words from a finite list, and combining them using rules—for example, combining sixty with unit labels to generate sixty-one, sixty-two, and so...

Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

OECS thematic collections.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

UC San Diego Psychology hosted the first Southern California Meeting for Investigations in Developmental Science (SoCal MInDS) this Saturday. We were joined by wonderful folks from the southernmost UC campuses, SDSU, CSULA, Occidental College, and USC.

My daughter’s 1995 is my 1965…

OMG Fodor was right!

Three-year Limited Term Assistant Professor position in the Division of Linguistics in Calgary, ... Three-year Limited Term Assistant Professor position in the Division of Linguistics in Calgary, ...

Please spread the word: we’re hiring!

“Three-year Limited Term Assistant Professor position in the Division of Linguistics beginning on July 1, 2025 … in generative syntax, with expertise in experimental syntax, psycholinguistics and/or neurolinguistics”

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1609537...

How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete.

My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more.

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Now out. This one was quite the ride & in the end we followed reviewer suggestions to change stats, add new exps, & ultimately found something unexpected: people are less sensitive to mental states of speakers when computing implicatures in-person vs. online. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fwiw neither my program officer nor the Executive Vice Chancellor of research had any clue about this until I asked. Maybe don’t start taking action until “leaks” and “trusted sources” are printed on NSF letterhead.

I love linguistics but the reviewing system in this field is uniquely bad and broken in a thousand ways.

Super cool!