PhD candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Want to learn more? I'll be presenting this and follow up work at:
@spspnews.bsky.social pre-conference "Origins of the social mind" (poster session)
@cogdevsoc.bsky.social symposium "Numerical foundations of human fairness"
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...