Assistant professor at UCSB, studying the development of the social mind. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 (he/him)
bmwoo.github.io
Brandon Woo
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Hiring! Athulya Aravind and I are looking for a full-time Postgraduate Associate at Yale (Linguistics/Psychology). The position is designed as preparation for PhD applications in linguistics, cog sci, or psychology, including structured mentoring and research training. tinyurl.com/mrxjya5t
Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1
Hi everyone! My paper on cognitive representations of relationships and their developmental origins is finally out! I had a blast responding to the commentary and was honored to be able to engage with people who laid the foundation for my research program. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New course launching in 2027!🎉 🤓
Neuromatch and @connectedminds.bsky.social are developing a Computational Behaviour course. A two-week, fully remote course open to participants worldwide!
Learn more: neuromatch.io/computationa...
#ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience
New preprint w @carenwalker.bsky.social & @drbarner.bsky.social! We test the "minimal representations" hypothesis that explains gaps in 3yos modal reasoning. Against it, we find that even 2½yos reason about mutually exclusive possibilities... when goals are clear to them. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/6
Congratulations to @olaozpal.bsky.social & big team on new paper: large sample of children reveals the early origins of left-lateralization in language processing.
Nice profile in MIT news:
news.mit.edu/2026/languag...
New ManyBabies publication!
Over 10+ years and 5,000+ babies tested, we've learned a ton about how to study the developing mind. In this comment, we discuss three such lessons that are shaping the future of ManyBabies. We'd love to hear your thoughts!
Gabor Brody
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life.
What do the inputs to this learning process actually look like?
New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2605.14990
New paper with @tadegquillien.bsky.social and Azzurra Ruggeri: "Children seek out observations that can reveal a partner's generosity". Out in @humbehevosoc.bsky.social EHB: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
The brain’s capacity to use and understand language expands rapidly in the first years of life. But by age 4, language processing is already handled by the left side of the brain, as in adults, accord...
A decade of ManyBabies research, testing thousands of babies across hundreds of labs, has shown that some, but not all findings in infant research replicate well. Collectively, these projects have sho...
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process look like? We analyzed first-person videos ...
Humans face the adaptive challenge of assessing how much other people value them. Evidence suggests that the human mind is well-equipped for this task…
I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
