Bobby Sparks

Language and cognition lab cogsci presentations!

Come see us at #cogsci2025! Here’s a (revised) list of posters and talks from my lab!

30.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 28    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

01.07.2025 18:25 — 👍 534    🔁 228    💬 10    📌 15

title of paper (in text) plus author list

Time course of word recognition for kids at different ages.

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

14.04.2025 21:58 — 👍 68    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 1

📣Now hiring! I'm looking to recruit a full-time Research Specialist (Lab Manager) to join the Social and Moral Learning Lab at UW Madison starting this summer! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc... (application deadline March 21, 2025)

11.03.2025 20:51 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Depiction comparing standard views of statistical learning with a sponge and the new information foraging view with an octopus

What is human #StatisticalLearning for? The standard assumption is that the goal of SL is to learn the regularities in the environment to guide behavior. In our new Psych Review paper, we argue that SL instead is provides the basis for novelty detection within an information foraging system
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27.02.2025 14:06 — 👍 55    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 0

My first and second research home(s)! Both incredible labs to grow in and do exciting work with before grad school.

Apply to be lab manager with Mike or Hyo!!

10.02.2025 17:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🔊 New paper just accepted in JPSP 🥳

In "Inference from social evaluation", we explore how people use social evaluations, such as judgments of blame or praise, to figure out what happened.

📜 osf.io/preprints/ps...

📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor...

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23.01.2025 16:52 — 👍 61    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 0

"A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways"

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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

04.04.2024 08:50 — 👍 50    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 1

A Child/Infant Head Camera designed to capture first-person video of children’s early environments! All commercially available parts and a do-it-yourself build :)

Paper: doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Build Instructions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

10.10.2023 01:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Many child head cameras on a table

#devpsych research, of course, means productive arts & crafts time with your lab - 2 hours of fun and 13 infant head-cams (BabyViews) ready to be used by families for data collection!🐞

06.10.2023 20:32 — 👍 38    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024!

The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.

02.10.2023 21:24 — 👍 141    🔁 87    💬 2    📌 2