Babies Learning Language

Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly.

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Book review: Elusive Cures

I'm normally an avid fiction reader, but this summer I've been on a non-fiction kick. I just finished listening to Nicole Rust'...

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Two summer book recommendations

After a long stint primarily reading fiction, I've been on a non-fiction kick recently and just read two books that I would definitely r...

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Four papers I'm sad never to have published

One of the saddest things in academic research is an abandoned project. You pour time, effort, and sometimes money into a piece of research,...

Some thoughts on ManyBabies 4

[ repost from Bluesky ] Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first p...

Monday, March 27, 2023

Domain-specific data repositories for better data sharing in psychology!

Data sharing is a critical part of ensuring a reproducible and robust research literature. It's also increasingly the law of the land, w...

Why do LLMs learn so much slower than humans?

[ repost from twitter ] How do we compare the scale of language learning input for large language models vs. humans? I've been trying to...

AI for psychology workflows hackathon - a report

[ reposted from twitter ] My lab held a hackathon yesterday to play with places where large language models could help us with our research...

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Michael Frank: Developmental Psychologist at Stanford University. Interested in language acquisition, cognitive development, thoughts, numbers, learning, and teaching. Visit my lab's website.

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