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Brianna Hunter

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Postdoc @ UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. Learning how babies learn 🧠

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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
My (very) short piece on how prenatal experience with the mother's voice may rapidly scaffold the development of face perception in newborn infants is now out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Prenatal and multimodal origins of face perception - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology - Prenatal and multimodal origins of face perception
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/03/2026
“Our trials have demonstrated that newborns will startle and react to the crinkling of a Lay’s potato chip bag much sooner than previously thought,” said lead author Dr. Delaney Mueller
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Study: Infants Respond To Rustling Of Potato Chip Bag As Early As 3 Weeks
ITASCA, IL—In what researchers are hailing as an incredible breakthrough in the understanding of early childhood development, a study published Friday by the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded t...
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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Neely et al. (2026) analysed playful activities during video chats recorded by infants/parents/grandparents: play in-person = video chat, highlights potential of digital tools to enhance intergen family r/s and social interactions thru play #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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In the Living Room and Across the Screen: Intergenerational Play Between Infants and Grandparents
In-person co-play between infants and adults develops rapidly during infancy, but little research has examined how families play together over video chat. Research demonstrates that video chat may su...
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/02/2026
the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)
Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks  Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1  Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species.main fig from the paper showing the association between bouba/round and kiki/spiky in newborn chicks
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Charisse Pickron @charissepickron.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New paper! Had lots of fun writing this with @lauriebayet.bsky.social There is so much more to say about extrinsic and intrinsic experiences which shape infants' face perception and learning, hopefully this keeps & starts conversations about a topic we love! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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From a Baby’s Point of View: How Infants’ Face Diets Shape Their Face Perception - Charisse B. Pickron, Laurie Bayet, 2026
Individual variations in face-perception expertise become apparent by the second year of life. We propose that infants’ “face diet”—the nature and quantity of t...
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John Greenwood @jagreenwood.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua...
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Jeff Zacks @jzacks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-032: Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Basic Experimental Studies in Humans (BESH) Will No Longer Be Considered Clinical Trials by the NIH NOT-OD-26-032. NIH
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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This paper was an awesome collaborative effort of a @fitngin.bsky.social working group. It provides a detailed review of how DNNs can be used to support dev neuro research @lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵
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Deep learning in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into everyday tasks and work environments. However, its adoption in medical image analys…
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Leher Singh @lehersingh.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Sharing a new article aimed at students and early career scholars on how to do a good peer review in developmental psychology. We offer a framework for a good peer review and suggestions on how to navigate challenges, including AI. The article is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Tu et al. (2025) studied 9mo infants in Sweden & Zimbabwe via eye-tracking: attention allocation is diff in these cultures in infancy, but each culture has a unique dynamic attentional style that includes holistic & analytic components #EarlyYears #Attention #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
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Holistic and Analytic Attention in Infancy: A Cross‐Cultural Study in Sweden and Zimbabwe
This pre-registered eye-tracking study assesses whether there are differences in infants' attention allocation across diverse cultural contexts while taking several social-environmental factors into ...
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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When the System Shrinks: Living Through a Contraction in Science
Five hundred people.
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 05/01/2026
The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience Review by Monica Gori, Maria Bianca Amadeo & Andrew J. Bremner go.nature.com/49iRXH9
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Merry Explaining How the Academic Job Market Is Going to Non-Academic Family Members Eve to all who celebrate!
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Sushrut Thorat @martisamuser.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
🚨New Preprint! How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715 + @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social 🧵 1/14
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Predicting upcoming visual features during eye movements yields scene representations aligned with human visual cortex
Scenes are complex, yet structured collections of parts, including objects and surfaces, that exhibit spatial and semantic relations to one another. An effective visual system therefore needs unified ...
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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A Quarter Century Review of Research on Infant Behavior and Development www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Infant Behavior and Development | A Quarter Century Review of Research on Infant Behavior and Development | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
In celebration of the first 25 years into the 21st Century, we invite review manuscripts for a special issue on A Quarter Century Review of Research on Infant Behavior and Development. Reviews should ...
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast. We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
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How to Build a Healthy Relationship With Your Kids with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar
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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... A short thread [1/5]👇
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨 New paper out in Developmental Science!! 🚨 Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset doi.org/10.1111/desc... by Brianna Hunter, John Kiat, Steve Luck, & Lisa Oakes View video abstract here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIV...
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Relating infant fixations to adult fMRI data using the Natural Scenes Dataset
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 10/09/2025
NEW: Starting Nov. 1, New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to offer no-cost child care to every family, regardless of income. This is projected to amount to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child. Yes, policy meeting people's needs is possible.
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Governor: New Mexico to provide universal access to child care
Currently, the state’s child care assistance program covers costs for families with incomes at or below 400% of the federal poverty level.
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UC Davis @ucdavis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Words and gestures help tune infant attention before they can speak. New UC Davis study finds babies focus longer when object labels ("bear") are paired with spatial words ("here"), and even longer when paired with gestures like pointing. ucdav.is/4lYtXgL
A woman and baby sit together reading a colorful book in a cozy room with shelves behind them; text overlay discusses babies' attention and communication cues. Text on image says, “Babies Pay Attention Longest When Words and Gestures Combined.”
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I wrote a paper with some of my favorite people synthesizing the last 25 years of research on my favorite topic: the development of visual attention during infancy 👶👀 doi.org/10.1016/j.in... #infantcognition #development #visualperception #visualattention
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.
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Resources for Research
This section provides brief summaries of selected resources for research that have been published in journals of the Psychonomic Society, typically Behavior Research Methods. These resources consis…
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Delighted to share Resources for Researchers webpage has received a 2025 Commendation from @improvingpsych.org! We look forward to continuing this work to help everyone navigate academia and help academia be more welcoming to everyone! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...
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Resources for Researchers — Plasticity in Neurodevelopment Lab
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The Oakes lab had a highly productive last few days!!! Lisa organized and hosted a writing retreat with lots of goal setting, writing time, and check-ins. This pic was day 1 coffee & goal setting time. I intended to take more pics and document the full retreat but got swept away in writing!!
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
First time watching a mentee give a talk 🤩🥹
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It’s been SUCH a fulfilling month of research!! Got to talk about my infant scene viewing work at the Bay Area Developmental Symposium and at the Vision Sciences Society meeting. Feeling very grateful to have met so many interesting people and to be a part of these welcoming communities 👁️🧠👶🖼️
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Shannon Klotz @shannonmklotz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW PAPER doi.org/10.1080/1350... Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation? A: Orientation!
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Farid Anvari @faridanvari.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@malte.the100.ci took the chance & hired me as a postdoc last year and with @ruben.the100.ci @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ianhussey.bsky.social and Lorenz Oehler we wrote a paper on what researchers could do to improve the measurement problems in psychological science. Ruben's figure is a work of art!
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Defragmenting psychology - Nature Human Behaviour
Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation. We call on the field to defragment psy...
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Cece’s 2024 scientific year in review -participated in 12 remote and 5 in-person studies -helped train 4 RAs in the lab -featured in 5 talks/manuscripts -attended 3 departmental seminars -attended 1 international and 1 local conference It’s been the BEST year including my daughter in my work! 🧠👁️👶👩‍🔬
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!! Check out the ToC! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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The Portable Mentor
Cambridge Core - Psychiatry - The Portable Mentor
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Great morning at the UC Davis Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference! Big congrats to @shannonmklotz.bsky.social and Erim Kızıldere for a people’s choice poster award!
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UC Davis Psychology @ucdavispsych.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Exciting news: #UCDavis has ranked in the top 5 of public universities for undergraduate #psychology programs in the nation! We’re proud to be leading the way in shaping the next generation of psychologists! www.usnews.com/best-college...
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ron-mangun.bsky.social @ron-mangun.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Lisa, I just joined Blue Sky so I could post about Steve as my first Blue Sky post! But you beat me to it. Ok...your privilege, I agree. So I will simply add a photo of me leading a cheer as we announced Steve's prize in the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain! The crowd went wild....! 💥
Ron Mangun at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain (CMB) leads cheer for CMB Distinguished Professor and former Director as he wins the UC Davis Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
No one more deserving of the UC Davis prize than the brilliant Steve Luck!
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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 18/11/2024
Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress. Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
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Giacomo Indiveri @giacomoi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Mariam Aly would be someone to ask. Check this out: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The key to a happy lab life is in the manual
A well-crafted set of guidelines and advice can save time, reassure trainees and promote a positive lab culture, argues Mariam Aly.
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Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky
Detailed job description, which can also be found here: https://cldlab.org/join/
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
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Buffy the Psych Prof @drpsybuffy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Looks like it might be time to reiterate what psychologists have been screaming from the rooftops for years: learning styles as it is presented to the general public is a myth and it damages students’ sense of efficacy www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential - npj Science of Learning
npj Science of Learning - Beware the myth: learning styles affect parents’, children’s, and teachers’ thinking about children’s academic potential
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Developmental Psychology Starter Pack…Part Two! go.bsky.app/ERzYGod
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Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Hi! I’m new around here and wanted to say hello. My name is Dan Wuori and I have dedicated my social media channels to helping explore the wonderment of early childhood development. The NY Times wrote about this project back in March. I’d love to connect! www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/u...
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Watch These Cute Videos of Babies (and Learn Something, Too)
A social media account features smiley toddlers, while also offering positive lessons about child development.
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Brianna Hunter @briannakhunter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Baby eras tour belongs on Bluesky too 🦋 @taylorswifteras.bsky.social @infantstudies.bsky.social #infancy #infantresearch #taylorswift #erastour
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Felicity Enders, PhD, MPH @felicityenders.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
As a grant reviewer, what do you really wish people would do/not do? Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used. Add your pet peeves ⬇️ #HiddenCurriculum #Research
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Alexander Harris @dralexharris.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It’s all fun and games until someone loses a [national] eye [institute]
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UC Davis Infant Cognition Lab @ucdavisicl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
On November 20, UC Davis Vice Provost Jonna Mazet visited our lab and PhD student Erim Kızıldere showed her our head mounted eye tracking setup. We enjoyed the opportunity to share with her the exciting work we do at the ICL. #infantcognition #ICL #science #research #ucdavis #centerformindandbrain
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Lisa Oakes @lisaoakes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My lab joined Bluesky! Follow @ucdavisicl for posts about infant development, my lab, and other cute and interesting facts about kids
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Shannon Klotz @shannonmklotz.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
NEW PAPER: doi.org/10.1111/infa... Q: Adults attend to locally meaningful regions in naturalistic scenes. Do infants?  A: Yes! 🧵
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