If you like my work and think we could learn from each other and have fun doing research together, Marie Curie postdoctoral applications will soon open and my university has wonderful support for writing one. Write me a mail explaining your idea and why we'd match! 1/

Huge congratulations to Asifa Majid, recipient of the 2024 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building!

This honor will be celebrated at #CogSci2024 with a prize and dedicated symposium.

Visit the #ElmanPrize page for more cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/

:) big thanks to Christy DeSmith for being a wonderful journalist to work with, it was fun to chat with her for this profile!

“What is it about language acquisition that makes younger minds — which are usually less good at everything — actually better at this particular process?” My interview with @harvard language scientist and psychology professor Elika Bergelson news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

“One really important shift in the field recently has been a much more serious reckoning with the fact that we tend to study white, middle-class Americans.”

Important new insights into early childhood language learning, thanks to @bergelsonlab

neurosciencenews.com/language-learn…

Mieux comprendre l'écoute et la production du langage chez l'enfant.

inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/mi… La quantité de paroles d'adultes entendues par un enfant aurait une influence significative sur le développement précoce du langage, l'effet augmentant avec l'âge.

CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales @CNRS

Language development in children. The amount of adult speech a child hears has a significant additional factor in children speech production - École normale supérieure | PSL Alex Cristia @bergelsonlab Harvard University CNRS 🌍

nice coverage of our work! fun for me & Alex Cristia to chat w/ Cathleen O'Grady &thnx to Dr. Ece Demir-Lira & Michael C. Frank for weighing in🤓. Read the whole paper to get our in depth take if u wanna know more: there’s a lot of nuance in these big topics that’s hard to relay in short #scicomm

2024 will be the 30th anniversary of Mapping the Mind, a collection of groundbreaking theoretical essays that have shaped cog dev science. Deb Kelemen & I are SO excited that this STAR STUDDED pre-conf is a go! Come hear where they stand on their theories now + lively discussion

Roots! I 'entered' social science as an anthropology major 35 years ago with an interest in how meanings were organized across cultures, and finally published a paper that provides new insight led by the amazing Molly Lewis in PNAS.
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Okay all thanks to @bergelsonlab I'm now on blusky too. bsky.app/profile/caroro…. Happy to meet you there too.

Proud to have contributed data to this amazing paper - and congrats to former Purdue Psych Dept grad student Lisa Hamrick for contributing to this publication!