Vlad Ayzenberg

vayzenb.bsky.social

13 October 2026 03:25

We need more meta-analytic and big science work on newborns like this. Research w/ newborns is HARD 1. Measurements are noisy and often ambiguous 2. Number of drop outs is high 3. Sample sizes are usually <20 This puts the newborn work highly at risk of spurious results and poor replicability

Deon T. Benton

deontbenton.bsky.social

13 October 2026 03:24

Are the original Johnson et al. 1991 findings evidence of a face-template or something more general, and is this bias to orient towards stimuli like them reflective of an domain-specific mechanism? This excellent paper challenges the face-template interpretation as well as the domain-specific one.

Dr Nick

nmwilkinson.eurosky.social

13 October 2026 03:24

New paper! Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science. A textbook finding in infant psychology is that newborns - within ~1 hour of birth - visually track a simplified 'three blob' facelike stimulus further than its inverted control (see picture). This suggested inborn knowledge of faces!

Tobias Gerstenberg

tobigerstenberg.bsky.social

13 October 2026 03:24

I'm very excited to share a new preprint with you all (5 years in the making). "Making good decisions with counterfactuals" with Ricky Ma, Scott Mueller, and Thomas Icard. We investigate how people combine experimental and observational data to make decisions. 📃 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Vlad Ayzenberg

vayzenb.bsky.social

09 October 2026 15:16

Excited to have been part of this great special issue. Our review described the bidirectional impacts of developmental science on AI www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...