Dr Nick

nmwilkinson.eurosky.social

12 October 2026 17:49

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!

The Transmitter

thetransmitter.bsky.social

06 October 2026 17:52

@dddavi.bsky.social's lab took the 21 million images that led to the connectome of a fruit fly brain. Now he plans to use a $19 million grant to apply “this high-throughput flashlight across all areas of biology.” Read our interview with Bock: bit.ly/4B9RiFp By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

David Barner

drbarner.bsky.social

03 October 2026 17:29

A new paper, to appear in Dev Psych. Why do kids as old as 5 or 6 count parts of things as though they were whole objects? We argue that this is pragmatic failure due to kids' inability to access alternative descriptions like "piece of fork". osf.io/preprints/ps...

Arthur Prat

arthurpr4t.bsky.social

09 September 2026 17:46

We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception; arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...

Bita Moghaddam

bita137.bsky.social

05 September 2026 18:27

I know many scientists love Linkedin and are very active on it but I find it boring if not uninformative - my feed is 90% folks posting their latest awards or papers and others liking it 👏and/or replying congrats. No meaningful comments, no humor, no sarcasm, no disagreement What am I missing?