Cognitive Science of Language Lab

csl-lab.bsky.social

06 October 2026 13:37

📣 BBS target article by Nick Chater and CSL Lab's @mh-christiansen.bsky.social is out in an issue along with 25 peer thoughtful commentaries and the authors' response www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Use links in righthand sidebar to see the peer commentaries and the authors' response

Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson

hilaryrosed.bsky.social

02 October 2026 14:54

Australia's research funder is trialling a partial lottery for their new high risk, high reward grant scheme. Details are yet to come, but it'll be interesting to see how this changes the national funding landscape. 🧪 #ecology #research

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. 🧵

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes

dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social

25 September 2026 12:15

New commentary on Chater & @mh-christiansen.bsky.social's "Social Tinkering". Drawing on their theory of bottom-up, emergent complexity, 1) I show that complex cultural institutions frequently privilege particular subgroups; and 2) argue that humans are well-adapted 'cultural lobbyists'.

Jason W. Burton

jasonburton.bsky.social

25 September 2026 01:21

Is human culture purely a product of bottom-up "social tinkering?" Or is it designed? In our commentary on Chater and Christiansen, @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social,
Ralph Hertwig, and I argue that we should pay more attention to the designed environments in which cultural evolution occurs.