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Jeanne Shinskey

@jeanneshinskey.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer @RHULPsychology | infant cognitive development | @rhul-baby-lab

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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was a fantastic team effort across 30+ labs 🌍 Paper (open access), data & code all public. > 📄 doi.org/10.1111/desc... > 💻 github.com/manybabies/m... > #ManyBabies #InfantCognition #OpenScience #DevSci, lead team: Andreea Geambaşu, Melanie Soderstrom, and Claartje Levelt
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ManyBabies 3: A Multi‐Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning
The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were...
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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵
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Jeanne Shinskey @jeanneshinskey.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Do textures in baby books help or hinder word learning? 🧸 Labs suggest texture can distract, but at home it may boost engagement and repeated reading, supporting babies’ symbolic thinking. @rhulpsychology.bsky.social @nuffieldfoundation.org 🔗 tinyurl.com/3pewsbxc tinyurl.com/2p7jfr57
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The Baby Books Project: Can Infants Learn New Words from Picture Books?
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