Developmental cognitive scientists Deon (deontbenton.bsky.social) & Jenny (jinjingjenny1.bsky.social) debate the origins of knowledge. Occasionally joined by our editor extraordinaire, Jenna DiStefano (jennadistefano.bsky.social)
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Part II is here! Jenny & Deon continue their discussion of Bayesian models and number cognition, including how Lee and Sarnecka used the same Bayesian model to test two competing theories of how children acquire number knowledge.
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The fun continues! In an upcoming episode, Jenny and Deon discuss connectionist modeling, then dive into Lee & Sarnecka (2010), their Bayesian model of the give-N task, and what a more mechanistically-oriented (in Marr's algorithm sense) connectionist version might look like
The pleasure, truly, was ours!
We are SO excited to chat with Dr. Shari Liu (@shariliu.bsky.social) about her scientific journey and, most importantly, about her recent Nature Reviews paper entitled "How physical information is used to make sense of the psychological world"!
If you're at all interest in computational modeling and number development, this will be the episode for you!
In case you missed our latest episode, check it out below!
Additional topics discussed:
• the strengths & weaknesses of large vs. small neural networks
• why small models still matter for theory development
• what a connectionist model of the give-N task might look like
• the role of realism in computational modeling
New ep! 🚨
In Part I of this 2-part episode, Jenny & Deon discuss connectionist modeling, developmental change, developmental tasks, one-hot vs. distributed representations, the give-N task, Bayesian models, Marr’s levels, & more. Stay tuned for Part II!
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We chatted with our editor Jenna's PI, Dr. Katie Graf Estes, about her academic journey, mentorship, and dealing with failure. We also discuss her Psych Science paper, "Can Infants Map Meaning to Newly Segmented Words?: Statistical Segmentation and Word Learning."
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New ep! 🚨
We chatted with Dr. Shari Liu (shariliu.bsky.social) about her recent Nature Reviews Psychology paper.
How do infants make sense of other people's minds? According to Shari, part of the answer lies in understanding the physical world.
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