Exploring language, concepts, and perception @ Yale
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Gabor Brody
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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
We find that object perception encodes possible identities but not locations. When vision doesn't know which object goes with which features, both possible mappings are primed. When vision doesn't know which location an object is in, it fails.
These results both expand what we know about object perception (tracking is different from feature binding) and corroborate developmental work, from us (Peter) and from other colleagues @levelsof.bsky.social, @esranur.bsky.social.
We use the object-specific preview benefit (OSPB), a signature of binding features to tracked objects, and conceptually recreate standard tasks from the developmental literature, where an object's possible locations or identities have to be represented.
New preprint w/ @drbarner.bsky.social, and probably the most fun project I've worked on!!
Past studies find kids fail to compute scalar implicatures. Do those tasks test spontaneous interpretation, or do they proffer worlds kids would never consider? ๐งต osf.io/preprints/ps...
Representations of geometric shapes have syntactic structure w/ @maxencepajot.bsky.social and @standehaene.bsky.social is out & open-access in JEP:General doi.org/10.1037/xge0.... For an overview, see thread below!
Fun little review paper w/ @drbarner.bsky.social, in which we discuss the role of language in the development of exact number concepts! 1/5
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