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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When we started scanning human infants 13 years ago, it seemed likely that functional responses in infant cortex would be qualitatively different from adults. Instead we keep finding similarities between infants and adults. Even for scene perception, despite the slow development of navigation.
Image of brain activation when infants look at movies of visual scenes, showing activation in three cortical regions: OPA, PPA and MPA.
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Freddy Kamps @fkamps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New paper! We found basic scene selectivity arises across the scene network early in infancy (i.e., by ~3.5 months old), prior to independent navigation experience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The cortical scene processing network emerges in infancy, prior to independent navigation experience | PNAS
Sighted people rely on vision to recognize and navigate the local environment. By adulthood, human cortex contains at least three regions that resp...
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Caroline Robertson @carolinerobertson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very excited to share this paper, led by @ajhaskins.bsky.social ! We find that how people look around the world is stable and idiosyncratic — and that these gaze patterns are shaped in part by the conceptual priorities each person brings to a scene. 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Haoyu Du @preprint.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If you know anyone (18+) that lives in US, and is of Jamaican descent, please share this survey! Thank you. ssd.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #AcademicSky
The University of Chicago Chatter Lab is a group of language scientists looking for Jamaican immigrants and people of Jamaican descent to take our online survey. QR code links to https://ssd.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2fByw1KIxCrxCES?Q_CHL=qr
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Alicia Chen @aliciamchen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New paper with @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social "Expectations of reciprocal generosity are specific to equal relationships," in @openmindjournal.bsky.social. Thread below! Article: doi.org/10.1162/opmi... MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/would-y...
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Would you return a favor? Scientists say it depends on the relationship
People generally only engage in reciprocal generosity with others of equal or unknown status, MIT researchers experimentally demonstrated. During repeated interactions between people of different soci...
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jane-yang.bsky.social @jane-yang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I’m giving a talk on this at #VSS2026: Sun May 17, 8:30am, Talk Room 2 (Object Recognition, 31.22). My first VSS! www.visionsciences.org/talk-session... Thanks to coauthors @tarunsepuri.bsky.social @alvinwmtan.bsky.social, @khaiaw.bsky.social, @mcxfrank.bsky.social, and @brialong.bsky.social!
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VSS Talk SessionsTalk Sessions – Vision Sciences Society
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jane-yang.bsky.social @jane-yang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Category organization: We found stronger within-superordinate clustering in the child’s view than in a curated dataset (THINGS). We also find this pattern in data from individual children. Maybe this provides a way for children to parse the “blooming buzzing confusion” of their visual world!
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jane-yang.bsky.social @jane-yang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Content: huge variation in viewpoint & format — including lots of depictions (esp. animals—examples below!!. Children are learning about many categories from these kinds of “child-directed” visuals rather than real-life exemplars.
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jane-yang.bsky.social @jane-yang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
What did we find? First, we found that a few categories dominate — across all domains! Children see some categories much more often than others, replicating prior work.
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jane-yang.bsky.social @jane-yang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
We analyzed the objects in view in 868 hours of egocentric videos from the BabyView dataset—from 31 children (5-36 months old). We used an object detection model to extract object categories from >3M frames—pipeline below. And more about the BabyView Project here! babyview-project.github.io
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jane-yang.bsky.social @jane-yang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process actually look like? New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2605.14990
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Characterizing the visual representation of objects from the child's view
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process look like? We analyzed first-person videos ...
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Emily A-Izzeddin @emilya-izzeddin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
How would you categorise these images? What features would you use? Preprint just went live looking at how we make sense of things we’ve never seen before (i.e., drawings just like these!). If that sounds interesting, read on or check out the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/
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Haoyu Du @preprint.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Exciting work from the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD will be at @cogdevsoc.bsky.social #CDS2026! Come chat with us about children's drawings, visual knowledge, and leveraging computational models for developmental research. www.vislearnlab.org
The visual learning lab at UCSD is attending the Cognitive Development Society 2026 conference. There are three poster presentations: Relating changes in children's descriptions and line drawings of visual concepts across childhood by Nicole Sahrling at poster session 1 on Friday April 10, Examining the precision of infants' visual concepts by leveraging vision-language models and automated gaze coding by Tarun Sepuri at poster session 2 on Friday April 10, and Children's integration of visual concepts via line drawings of hybrid categories by Haoyu Du at poster session 4 on Saturday April 11.
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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 · 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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Laboratory Coordinator - 138788 | Careers at UC San Diego
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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Attending CDS 2026? Consider joining us at the morning pre-conference workshop on intuitive theories of care and protection in development @cogdevsoc.bsky.social
Schedule of speakers for a morning pre-conference workshop at the 2026 meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The amazing Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social speaks tomorrow Wed at noon east coast time in the Bisan Lecture Series. Title: What People Learn from Punishment Register here to get the Zoom link!: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... scientists4palestine.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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What People Learn from Punishment - Scientists For Palestine
Wednesday, February 11, 2025, 7 pm Palestine time Prof. Rebecca Saxe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Title: What People Learn from Punishment Abstract: In human society, punishment can so...
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Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Congratulations to @lillianbehm.bsky.social, Nick Turk-Browne, and a huge team for putting together this paper (out today) on lessons from a decade of attempts to study awake infants with fMRI: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Awake Infants: Insights From More Than 750 Scanning Sessions
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in awake infants has the potential to reveal how the early developing brain gives rise to cognition and behavior. However, awake infant fMRI poses signifi...
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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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Alicia Chen @aliciamchen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories. In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
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Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space
Abstract. Human spoken language uses a continuous stream of acoustic signals to communicate about continuous features of the world, by using discrete forms
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Can we use VLMs to quantify multimodal alignment in children's experiences? We analyze a large corpus of headcam videos to find out! New preprint from our BabyView project, led by @alvinwmtan.bsky.social and Jane Yang: arxiv.org/abs/2511.18824
Figure 1 showing alignment pipeline using CLIP models on BabyView data.Figure 2: human judgments are correlated with CLIP scores.
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 22/04/2025
山坡羊•潼关怀古
峯巒如聚,波濤如怒,山河表裏潼關路。
望西都,意躊躇。
傷心秦漢經行處,宮闕萬問都做了土。
興,百姓苦;
亡,百姓苦!

Reflections on the Past: At Tong Pass 
(to 'Sheep on the Hillside')
The peaks of Mount Hua muster in, 
The waves of the Yellow River rage.
Threading through mountain and river it runs:
The road up to Tong Pass.
I pause
and gaze west toward the capital that was:
Where Qin and Han and Tang passed through, 
And every one of their palaces turned to dust.
Dynasties
rise: the little people suffer. 
fall: the little people suffer.
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 15/11/2025
I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
A photo of a woman in pink in a wheelchair. She has an intubation for oxygen. She looks up at the viewer. Words:

This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine ! would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
may her memory
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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain" with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social Summary 👇 1/8
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Ever wonder how habituation works? Here's our attempt to understand: A stimulus-computable rational model of visual habituation in infants and adults doi.org/10.7554/eLif... This is the thesis of two wonderful students: @anjiecao.bsky.social @galraz.bsky.social, w/ @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social
infant data from experiment 1conceptual schema for different habituation modelstitle pageresults from experiment 2 with adults
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