Candice Koolhaas

Just added a few thousand new search datasets, bringing the total up to almost 6k museum visitors 😮‍💨

Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...
Data: osf.io/kf4sb/

Can infants tell when your phone is getting in the way? 📱👀 Cao et al. (2025) found that 20mo infants expect adults distracted by phones to do worse at simple tasks. Even babies may realise the consequences of multitasking! #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Awesome! Do you mind if I get your email and we can coordinate a pick up time?

Where can I pick one up? We would love to have one if someone else hasn’t snagged them!

Awesome! I’m waiting to see what my PIs think. If someone else wants them before I get back to you then no worries!!

Sorry for the late response! Are they still available?

Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Yes! We are looking for a mobile chinrest that would be better for kids than the one we currently have - can you send a pic of it?

Are they still available?

What We Can Learn About Happiness from Babies | Alison Gopnik 10% Happier with Dan Harris · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/5w35... 😻 the last ~10 minutes of this episode especially is so beautiful and inspiring 😱

YouTube video by Cognitive Development Center CEU BCCCD25 - Sarah Stolp Shepherd: Focused or overstimulated?

If you have the intuition that Bluey is better for kids than popular kids YouTube streamers, you are right! Kids YouTube videos have way more “flicker” - an interesting measure Sarah Stolp Shepherd uses in her research that is related to reduced short term learning and EF! youtu.be/4whbKAhHMc8?...

Alexis Torres has written an excellent review, now published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, on "The Role of the LC-NE System in Attention: From Cells, to Systems, to Sensory-Motor Control" (w/ me and Gene Brewer). check it out!

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

2025 - CHS (ICIS Webinar) Conducting developmental studies online with Children Helping Science Melissa Kline Struhl ICIS Webinar 05/29/2025 1 1 Children Helping Science

Just had the chance to present on an @infantstudies.bsky.social panel about inexpensive methods for data collection with children - if you're curious about how Children Helping Science works/the kinds of studies you can run, this slide deck is a good place to start!

docs.google.com/presentation...

Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:

First time at #vss2025 favorite conference so far for sure 😎🐠🐟🐡

My first #srcd poster on proactive interference with 1.5 - 2.5 year olds 🤩

The instance of the word "Homer" appears ~100 times, "Donut" ~5 times, and "Nuclear" 1-2 times in the simpsons_characters dataset.

First post! HW assignment for Biostats class. For #TidyTuesday I just compared how many times some random words appeared in the Simpson's-character-names dataset. Here is the link to the script: github.com/candicekoolh...