The It's Innate! Podcast

Want to know what makes today so special?!

We get to chat with the inimitable Professor Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) about her science journey, her recent paper in Nature Communications showing that sociomoral evaluation may be innate, and more!

Stay tuned for the episode!

An inspirational and fun conversation with @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social!

In case you missed it, our discussion with Professor Rebecca Saxe (@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬) is live! Give it a listen, why don't ya?

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A conversation with a luminary #5: Rebecca Saxe

🚨 New Episode! 🚨 We're thrilled to release another installment of "A conversation with a luminary," featuring *over 2 hours* with Professor Rebecca Saxe. We discuss her early life, science journey, mentorship under Nancy Kanwisher, her Theory of Mind work, & more! So fun!

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The good times keep rolling (at least for the pod)! We're so thrilled to be chatting today with Professor Rebecca Saxe (‪@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social‬) about her scientific journey, remarkable career, and much more.

This will be another installment of "A conversation with a luminary". Stay tuned!

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Oh, and spoiler: we'll be chatting with the inimitable Dr. Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social‬) on Aug 6 about that new Nature Comms paper showing that 5-day-olds are sensitive to helping & hindering! Could sociomoral evaluation (or its ingredients) really be innate?!

Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.

My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social ‬is now out in Science Advances!

We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime

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The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...

Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looks like we might have to have Dr. Hamlin and/or Dr. Geraci on to discuss this super cool paper!

Shameless self-promotion #DevPsy #PhdSky #PsychSciSky

Thanks, @deontbenton.bsky.social and @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social for letting me talk about my career and my beloved mentors 🙂

We're reposting this because in the previous post we misspelled Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy's name.

A happy little dance between attention and working memory (with Zsuzsa Kaldy)

🚨 New Episode! Our recent chat w/ Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy (@zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social ) is up! We chat about her cog sci journey, her work on infant working memory, and a recent paper in which she argues that attention and working memory work in concert to pursue goals. So much fun!

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We want to hear from you, dear listener! Who would you like to hear us chat with on the next episode of The It's Innate! podcast? Nominate them in the comments below!

We want to hear from you, dear listener! Who would you like to hear us chat with on the next episode of The It's Innate! podcast? Nominate them in the comments below!

Seeing (can help you infer what someone else) is believing (with Sholei Croom)

🚨 New episode! In this episode, we chat with graduate student extraordinaire, Sholei Croom, about their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions". The paper explored whether learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.

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Super fun to do! Thanks @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social

A conversation with a luminary #4: Nora Newcombe

🚨 New episode! We are excited to be releasing another "A conversation with a luminary" episode.  In it, we chat with Professor Nora Newcombe (@noranewcombe.bsky.social) about her science journey, the geometric module, empiricism & nativism, among other things. Enjoy!

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Wondering when the next episode is going to drop? Fair question. We’ve got great convos waiting to be released, & we just need help getting them out!

This is why we're looking for a PhD student in developmental cognitive science (or related field) to join our team as an editor!

We are beyond excited to be talking with the distinguished Professor Nora Newcombe (@noranewcombe.bsky.social) today about her journey in science, her work on spatial thinking, among other things! Stay tuned for the episode!

Episode 26: A conversation with a luminary #3: Susan Carey

So thrilled to announce that we've released another "A conversation with a luminary" episode. In this long episode, we chat with luminary Professor Susan Carey! She talks about her career, the evolution of developmental cognitive science, iconic representations, and more!

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Something to pique your curiosity (with Gert Westermann)

Be sure to listen to our latest episode, in which we chat with Professor Gert Westermann about how curiosity might work (among other things).

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Something to pique your curiosity (with Gert Westermann)

🚨 New episode 🚨 In it, we chat with Professor Gert Westermann about his work exploring the mechanstic basis of curiosity. Along the way he talks about his journey in science, the role of computational modeling, and his early encounter with nativism in a language class.

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People and objects are different, and infants innately know this. Or do they?

In case you missed it, we've released another episode! Jenny and I chat about how infants might learn about the causal properties of animates and inanimates based on a recent paper by Deon. Lots to enjoy about this episode!

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People and objects are different, and infants innately know this. Or do they?

🚨 New episode!

Deon and Jenny discuss how infants learn about causal actions of animates vs. inanimates, inspired by Deon's JEP:General paper. Academic job market, philosophy (e.g., Hume, Michotte), computational modeling, and developmental science—this episode has it all!

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Had a great time joining Deon and Jenny to chat about some recent ManyBabies projects!

New episode! In it, we chat with Dr. Martin Zettersten (mzettersten.bsky.social) about a cool ManyBabies project assessing the reliability of infant directed speech! We also chat about his journey & his transition from postdoc to an assistant professor, among other things!

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We couldn't be more excited to be interviewing Professor Rebecca Saxe (rebeccasaxe.bsky.social) tomorrow as part of our continuing luminary series!

Please leave a comment below if there's anyone with whom you'd like us to chat. And if you'd like to be on the podcast, please let us know that too!