Developmental cognitive scientist. Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Co-host of The It's Innate! Podcast. PI of the Computational Cognitive Development Lab. Dad. Husband. Human. (he/him/his)
Deon T. Benton
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Will update this post with the pretty journal version when it's ready.
fun fun in the (summer) sun!
I just love folks who tell long-winded stories and take two weeks to get to the punch line.
Paper acceptances are the best kind of acceptances.
Can't wait to share my new paper in Child Development, "An Associative Learning Account of How Saliva Becomes a Cue for Comfort."
I was fortunate to co-first-author this work with my brilliant colleague, Dr. Justine Hoch.
managed to cut 40 pages. Almost there!
Without giving too much away, we offer a mechanistic account — based on associative learning — for Dr. Ashley Thomas's (@ashleyjthomas.bsky.social) finding in Science demonstrating that infants use saliva as a cue to relationship closeness.
Here's that paper: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Newborns' preference for faces is learned rather than based on a innate face-like template
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was fun to wax poetic about the virtues of "small" models, among other things
If this site ever goes down, you can now find us on Facebook!
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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"!
