Nivi Mani

<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library Growing up with multiple siblings might negatively affect language development. This study examined the associations between birth order, sibling characteristics and parent-reported vocabulary size i....

Do older siblings help or hinder language development? And does it matter if they’re sisters or brothers? In our new paper we revisit the "birth order effect"... and took it a step further! w/ @julienmayor.bsky.social, Nora Serres and Natalia Kartushina 🙌 🧵 1/ #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

PhD - Lancaster University

Fully funded PhD on the "Origins of Infant Word Learning" @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Supervisor team: Jill Lany, Perrine Brusini, @alissaferry.bsky.social, & @gertwestermann.bsky.social

#PsycSci #DevPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky 🧪

How Do We Learn Language?

Ever wonder how babies learn language? We've got answers! Join us for a fascinating chat with Prof. Nivedita Mani @nivimani.bsky.social from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, as we uncover the secrets of infant language acquisition.

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So much fun talking to Svilen about the work going on in our lab. Great questions and a really engaging conversation.

Comic depictions of the first page of research papers in the language sciences, with titles that include the following: Just what the hell is a word anyway? See how this single cognitive process or brain area or neural oscillation or gene explains language! Based on the shapes of these old bones, Homo erectus could sing .... don't @ me. A baby looked at one thing more than the other, now we know the secret to grammar. If you think about it, every language is fundamentally the same, amirite? We taught a load of undergrads a made-up language, lol. On the staggering diversity of the many languages across the world. Remember the thing you said only humans could do, here's a video of a monkey / dolphin / corvid / octopus / honeybee doing it. I trained this AI with 80 billion tweets and it became head-writer for phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com).
#language #linguistics #science #academia

New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd.

We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇

The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: A Validated Caregiver‐Report Measure of Curiosity in Children From 5 to 24 Months Humans are curious. Especially children are known for their drive to explore and learn, which is crucial for developing in and navigating through our complex world. Naturally, some children may be mo...

Just published: our validated 23-item parent report measure of curiosity in infants 5-24 months of age (ITCQ), a single measure with subscales of sensory, investigative and interactive curiosity. With Elena Altmann, @marinabazhydai.bsky.social, Didar Karadag. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Infants follow the gaze of same‐age peers, young children, and adults Gaze following – infants’ orienting towards an object attended to by their social partner – has been linked to a range of socio-cognitive skills. Despite considerable research on when infants follow ...

New paper out with Alina Matzerath, Hyo Gweon and @nivimani.bsky.social 🥳🎄
Infants (6-15 months) followed the gaze of an adult, a 5-year-old child, and an 11-month-old infant. Thus, infants consider not only adults but also peers and young children as potentially interesting social partners👶

Our graduate school on Curiosity officially started this month and our Theory kick-off is all set to get us inspired, thinking and talking to one another. While the in-person events are for graduate school members only, you can sign up for the lectures online here: uni-goettingen.de/de/vorschau_...

The quality of caregiver–child interaction is predicted by (caregivers’ perception of) their child’s interests | Royal Society Open Science This current study examines the extent to which children’s interests and caregivers’ sensitivity to their children’s interests are associated with the quality of caregiver–child interaction, and subse...

It's time for another ScienceCampus Paper alert! This time, we have two papers coming from the lab of @nivimani.bsky.social together with Raji Madhavan and Martina De Eccher.

Weather is bad, so why not reading their newest research over a ☕.

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Am Freitag (19.4.) startet Season 4 unserer beliebten chalk talk Reihe im Forum Wissen der Uni Göttingen. Wie immer Freitags ab 16:30, kostenlos und natürlich analog! Den Anfang macht Anne Schacht: Wer hat die Kontrolle über unser Lachen?

An examination of measures of young children's interest in natural object categories Developmental research utilizes various different methodologies and measures to study the cognitive development of young children; however, the reliab…

New paper alert 🚨 Our study (Madhavan, Malem, Mundry, Ackermann, @nivimani.bsky.social) on the validity + convergence of diff. measures of children's interest in natural object categories finds no significant associations between most measures, suggesting a need for further research s.gwdg.de/mG5H4L

Sitting in the sun, a cup of coffee and our newest SFB publication? ☕
Richarda Bothe, @nivimani.bsky.social (@primatecognition.bsky.social) and colleagues just published a new paper about the effects of arbitrary actions and words on infants' object categorization. #lazysunday s.gwdg.de/vSTSWF

Advertising 11 PhD positions in the RTG "Form-meaning mismatches". Project 3 - associated with my group - examines how word-form and word-meaning mismatches influence early word learning, expanding on this publication (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...).

Feel free to join our informal information event this Wednesday where you can get further information about how to apply to these positions, what awaits you in an RTG on Curiosity and much much more. Send an Email to rtg2906[at]uni-goettingen.de to register for the event

Just a little under a month to go to apply to 12 PhD and 2 postdoc positions in the new RTG on Curiosity. Positions available with foci in developmental psychology, behavioural biology, systems, computational and theoretical neuroscience: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

Uni Göttingen: 60 Millionen Euro für ein neues Psychologie-Forschungszentrum Es heißt Forschungszentrum Human Behavior and Cognition (HuCaB), 60 Millionen Euro soll es kosten. Nach ersten Abrissarbeiten seit September haben nun die Bauarbeiten auf dem Gelände des Georg-Elias...

Die Bauarbeiten beginnen! Das GT
besucht das neue Forschungszentrum "HuCaB" geleitet von
Anne Schacht; weitere beteiligte SFB-PIs: Alex Gail, StefanTreue, Peter Marschik, @larspenke.bsky.social, @nivimani.bsky.social; Hannes Rakoczy Michael Wibral, Alex Ecker; with @primatecognition.bsky.social

Tenure-Track Professorships at Leibniz Institue for Psychology in Trier (Germany):

* Science Acceptance 
* ❗Psychological Metascience❗
* Big Data in Psychology

Never seen such posts in Germany before ... wind of change (😉🦂)

Deadline: Dec. 14th

leibniz-psychology.org/en/the-insti...

@nivimani.bsky.social and her team of the newly funded RTG2906 Curiosity are really fast! The new website is already online and 12 PhD positions and two postdoc positions are available: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

Our research training group on Curiosity is also advertising two independent postdoctoral research positions (uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...) in “Developmental and Comparative Psychology“ and “Cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning”. More info here

Fully funded PhD position available in the lab of @nivimani.bsky.social. Will be part of a recently funded Research Training Group at the University of Göttingen. Take the opportunity and apply!

Been saving this for my first post here. As part of a new Research Training Group on Curiosity to be established at Göttingen (www.uni-goettingen.de/de/681631.html), we advertise a PhD position in developmental curiosity research in my group. More details here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/...