Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...
Looking forward to heading to Italy for #MCLS2026! Maybe I'll see you there!
Another fun paper! We asked what words people find easiest to predict in a sentence, which is a good way to study how we represent lexical concepts. Found that people rely on more than just predictive statistics - it's more about which words are central in our semantic association networks.
Presenting *NEW* work on 🟠 Geometric Reasoning 🔵 at the Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society Conference tomorrow @ 10:45am in Talk Room 5 @ the University of Padua! If you happen to be there, let's connect! #MCLS2026 #Padua🇮🇹 #GeometricReasoning
Head Start turned 61 this week! 🎂
The entire War on Poverty, and Head Start in particular, was a massive feat of policymaking and implementation in such a short time.
When the first Head Start grant recipients were announced in May 1965 (to begin that summer!), LBJ heralded the accomplishment.
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Interview with Emery Brown -- fascinating, slightly scary
Hello #MCLS2026 ! 🇮🇹
June 25 at 2 pm, Room T3- CLA
Symposium: The potential of digital educational learning activities to support pupils’ learning processes of different math skills in classrooms"
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Hello #MCLS2026 ! 🇮🇹
Join our Symposium on June 23 at 2 pm, Room T1 - CLA:
"Perspectives on Mathematical Cognition in Latin America"
#Latinos #Hispanos #Latinas
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Come join us! Northwestern Linguistics is hiring a lab manager -- perfect for a recent graduate who's interested in contributing to a vibrant interdisciplinary research community. Position is open immediately! careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hrnu_er/...
Fun new collab coming out in TICS (w/ Haley Weaver & Sudha Arunachalam) digging into the assumptions underlying the use of eye-gaze methods to study vocabulary development. Working on this paper really got us thinking - we hope it does the same for our readers! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mike Frank
Blog about fatherhood, langauge, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.
