Michael Goldstein

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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08.09.2025 18:23 — 👍 344    🔁 277    💬 6    📌 18

Main panel of Fig 1 from paper in OP

New preprint from a bio-psych collab

many animals have preferences for sounds in their species (eg, I'm a frog, I like deeper frog croaks bc better frog mates sound deeper)

@loganjames.bsky.social tested if humans are sensitive to these prefs in 16 species

we are!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

27.06.2025 19:40 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

I am please to share my latest article "A developmentalist’s view of inheritance", just published in acta ethologica.

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Inheritance is a time-distributed developmental process by which diverse developmental resources become available to the next generation.

22.05.2025 11:54 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Beer

13.04.2025 13:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Having a great time running a STEM outreach event at the Sciencenter featuring a sailplane and flight simulator from Harris Hill Soaring Corporation! Sparking curiosity about science in kids is a great way to stay sane in this crazy world.

12.04.2025 22:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Contingency enables the formation of social expectations about an artificial agent You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

Babies learn best from those who respond to their babbling! 👶✨ @juliaavenditti.bsky.social, @mikehgoldstein.bsky.social et al. (2025): infants form stronger social expectations when their babbling gets a timely response—even from a robot car! 🤖🚗 #infancypapers #EarlyYears doi.org/10.1111/infa...

20.03.2025 15:57 — 👍 26    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Co-PI snoozing on the job

03.03.2025 18:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Virtual reality environment in which a caregiver interacts with a crawling infant on a blanket near a busy road.

Our new theory paper in Acta Psychologica shows that babies change how we see the world! In our lab, we use virtual environments to study parenting. We are finding that babies actively reshape our perception in ways that help protect them. Read more at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

21.02.2025 20:55 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Immature vocalizations elicit simplified adult speech across multiple languages Altriciality, or extended early immaturity, creates opportunities for learning. Across languages, Elmlinger et al. show that parents simplify their speech in response to children’s early vocalizations...

How do languages become learnable for young children? Our new paper in Current Biology shows how “Immature vocalizations elicit simplified adult speech across multiple languages.” 🧵 of our findings below: www.cell.com/current-biol... 1/9

06.02.2025 16:59 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

It’s a fun and thought-provoking read! I teach it in the early part of my developmental psychology course to set the stage for thinking mechanistically about the emergence of complex, adaptive behaviors.

14.12.2024 18:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0