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Brenden Lake @brendenlake.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excited about new work from my CCN keynote (38m): youtu.be/v3J-vJfxhOE?... We often choose between Bayesian and neural net models of behavior. But what if there's a spectrum, and combining both makes better predictions? Introducing BBT w @akjagadish.bsky.social & Guangyuan arxiv.org/abs/2608.22154

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tyler bonnen @tylerbonnen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

excited to be at #CCN2026! come talk to our very new lab during the poster sessions 🌱 we're introducing novel computational frameworks to model human 3D vision + developing theoretical and empirical strategies for understanding these abilities say hello & let us know what you think!

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B89: Foveated multiview models of human 3D shape perception

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B90: Distribution shift predicts the dynamics of 3D perception

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C78: Human-level 3D perception emerges from multi-view learning

Nathan Kong
F75: Evaluating spatial perception in humans and machines

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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One current debate about infants vs AI: how much visual experience do they each need to learn to see? Don’t miss the neat relevant evidence and calculation in @fkamps.bsky.social 's paper, and explained in 🧵 ⤵️.

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Language Development Research @langdevres.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

New paper by Alvin W. M. Tan, Kirsten Read, Sophia Gamboa, Janet Bang, and @vmarchman.bsky.social showing text in children's books is lexically and grammatically richer than spontaneous child-directed speech. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...

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Rebecca Zhu @rebeccazoo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

New preprint! How do children’s drawing abilities develop in contexts where they have relatively fewer drawing opportunities? In a study with 120 Kisumu, Kenya children, we find that children produce more recognizable drawings with age and with drawing experience. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Brilliant! In part b/c it holds up happiness as an illustration of what’s what 😉. But more seriously: IF YOUR SO CALLED THEORY DOESN‘T MAKE TESTABLE PREDICTIONS IT’S A FRAMEWORK. #TheoriesAreTheGoal Excellent example of an influential framework-not-a-theory here: experimentology.io/002-theories...

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!

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Khai Loong Aw @khaiaw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Exciting analysis of objects in kids' everyday visual input (BabyView). Today's best categorization models still train on curated photos — not the long-tailed categories and non-canonical viewpoints kids actually see. A difference in kind, not just quantity, pointing to a fundamental algorithmic gap

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

So excited about this new work—check it out and go see Jane’s talk on Sunday if you’re at #VSS2026!

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is my favorite shot from Artemis II so far—absolutely stunning CREDIT:NASA

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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Memorability as an Emergent Property: How Representational Structure Creates Apparent Intrinsic Effects osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

What does it mean for culture to “shape” cognition? In our new TiCS paper, @benjaminpitt.bsky.social & I offer a typology of four possible effects: culture can Privilege one cognitive process over others, Prune out disfavored ones, Produce new ones, or have no effect. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

For a year and a half, @carorowland.bsky.social, @lehersingh.bsky.social, Marisa Casillas, Shanley Allen, and I have been meeting to discuss whether innateness is still a useful concept to think about in studying language acquisition. Here's our take: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The origins of language have been a persistent object of philosophical and scientific inquiry, in part
because they offer a window into the origins of thought. Classic innatist theories of language have argued
that languages share universal elements that arise because language acquisition is guided by rich,
biologically specified structures in the form of a universal grammar. However, different versions of this
hypothesis that posit substantial amounts of innate content are not consistent with recent evidence. We
review new evidence from language diversity, human interaction, and large language models (LLMs), all
of which challenge classical innatist views. Yet we believe there is still value in asking what elements of
language development are innate. In this Perspective, we integrate evidence from these three areas
towards a broader conception of innateness, one that seeks to explain both consistency and variation in
language acquisition. On this view, innateness remains a key orienting principle for understanding the
origins of language.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me. Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...

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Datapages for reusable (and pretty!) data sharing

Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.

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Adena Schachner @adenaschachner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

New paper in Child Development! When we enter others' homes, we learn about them from the placement of their belongings. This requires integrating multiple social factors (social context, pref). We find 6+yo succeed at integration & 'read the room' in this way! academic.oup.com/chidev/artic...

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Reading the room: Children integrate multiple social factors to predict and interpret objects' locations

Abstract. Adults infer social information from objects' locations by integrating multiple causal factors, which is often challenging for children. To test

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Beautiful use of the BabyView dataset to train a visual learning model!

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'm hiring a new lab manager for my lab @ UCSD! For more info on the lab, check out our website: lillab.ucsd.edu Target start date is June 1 (flexible) and application deadline is March 26. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit! Apply here: employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...

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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Members of the SoCal lab are presenting their work at #CDS2026! Check out where to find us below

A list of talks and poster presentations to be given by Rodney Tompkins (Thursday preconference, Friday talk in symposium on when helping backfires, poster in Saturday lunch session), Bill Pepe (poster Friday evening), Coxi Jiang (poster Friday evening), and Tori Hennessy (poster Saturday evening, to be presented by co-author Angela Liu)

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you’re at CDS this weekend, stop by our posters! I’m sad to miss it this year but so proud of this fantastic group ✨

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tyler bonnen @tylerbonnen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

okay, so, what kind of data *d*o we learn from? at the very least: visual sequences, depth, and self-motion cues. @brialong.bsky.social, @mcxfrank.bsky.social and Linda Smith have done incredible work characterizing these experiences with head-mounted cameras (thank you Bria for the video! 🙇)

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tyler bonnen @tylerbonnen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

excited to share some recent work! neural networks trained on multi-view sensory data are the first to match human-level 3D shape perception we predict human accuracy, error patterns, and reaction time—all zero-shot, no training on experimental data arxiv.org/abs/2602.17650 1/🧠

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Human-level 3D shape perception emerges from multi-view learning

Humans can infer the three-dimensional structure of objects from two-dimensional visual inputs. Modeling this ability has been a longstanding goal for the science and engineering of visual intelligenc...

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We are still hiring for our computational focus lab coordinator position! If you have a computational / software engineering background and are looking for more research experience before applying to graduate school, this would be a great fit. Read more about our lab here! www.vislearnlab.org

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461

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Assistant Teaching Professor in Computational Social Science and Cognitive Science

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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Yong Hoon Chung @yonghoonchung.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.

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tyler bonnen @tylerbonnen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

starting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @upenn.edu 🥳 my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science! reach out if you're interested 😊

a red building on UPENN's campus photographed during the fall

the Philadelphia skyline, with clear skies and autumn trees

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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Hyesung Grace Hwang @hghwang.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This platform is so important! It allows researchers regardless of their university prestige to do research! So important for leveling the playing field for many developmental psychologist scientist from under resourced institutions. Please consider donating - donations will be matched!

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Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This resource has been such a boon to the developmental science community broadly and to my lab specifically. One needn’t look any further than the publications that have come out of the platform to see this (lookit.readthedocs.io/en/develop/p...). Please consider donating!

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Publications — CHS/Lookit documentation

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Virginia Marchman @vmarchman.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Just out in Infancy! "Time to talk", by our great team, Janet Bang, Mónica Munévar, Arlyn Mora, and Anne Fernald used day-long recordings of English- and Spanish-speaking families in the US to explore what caregivers are doing when talking the most with their children.

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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · 06/12/2025

Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS @ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)

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Data on the Brain & Mind @NeurIPS2025 @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

For our last talk of the workshop, we are honored to have Prof. @brialong.bsky.social sharing with us on “The BabyView Dataset: Learning from and about young children's everyday experiences” #NeurIPS2025 📍Location: Upper Level Room 10. 🗓️ data-brain-mind.github.io

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In the running for greatest human accomplishment.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help? New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with @hyogweon.bsky.social and Willem Frankenhuis. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉 I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty). See lab page and doc below for details!

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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

At #COLM2025 and would love to chat all things cogsci, LMs, & interpretability 🍁🥯 I'm also recruiting! 👉 I'm presenting at two workshops (PragLM, Visions) on Fri 👉 Also check out "Language Models Fail to Introspect About Their Knowledge of Language" (presented by @siyuansong.bsky.social Tue 11-1)

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective. A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE. levante-network.org/global-colla...

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Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development - Levante

Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well? We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics. 📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Humans largely learn language through speech. In contrast, most LLMs learn from pre-tokenized text. In our #Interspeech2025 paper, we introduce AuriStream: a simple, causal model that learns phoneme, word & semantic information from speech. Poster P6, tomorrow (Aug 19) at 1:30 pm, Foyer 2.2!

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Josh Tenenbaum's inspiring keynote at #cogsci2025 on growing vs scaling AI, the big questions of cognitive science, and the many open questions for the field.

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Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

Sketchnote of Nora Newcombe's Rumelhart Prize Talk, posing three questions and case studies for cognitive science: (1) innateness (with the geometric module as a case study), (2) representations (featuring cognitive maps vs. graphs), and (3) embodiment (featuring mental rotation)

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Nils Petras @nilspetras.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

1/5 For upcoming work I lately read some articles on handling mistakes in science. They share an important consensus I think everyone should know: Mistakes are a failure of systems, not people. In a working system, making a mistake is normal, but inconsequential. 🧵

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Shiry Ginosar @shiryginosar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🧠How “old” is your model? Put it to the test with the KiVA Challenge: a new benchmark for abstract visual reasoning, grounded in real developmental data from children and adults. 🏆 Prizes: 🥇$1K to the top model 🥈🥉$500 📅 Deadline: 10/7/25 🔗 kiva-challenge.github.io @iccv.bsky.social

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KiVA Challenge @ ICCV 2025

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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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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.

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🎈 Out now: 🎈 "The capacity limits of moving objects in the imagination" (by Balaban & me) of interest to people thinking about the imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, capacity limits, and more www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Amazing resource that I now use myself in teaching graduate methods at UCSD! Highly recommended.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Tatiana Engel @engeltatiana.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Out today in @nature.com: we show that individual neurons have diverse tuning to a decision variable computed by the entire population, revealing a unifying geometric principle for the encoding of sensory and dynamic cognitive variables. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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