Babies Learning Language

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

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Confounds in developmental time

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(Looking for developmental dissociations between processes can be a profitable research strategy, but such dissociations may be affected ...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

What can a four-month-old do?

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If you read papers on babies, you get the sense that mostly they just stare at stuff. The vast majority of research on babies uses visual at...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

How to make a babycam

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(This is a guest post, written by  Ally Kraus .) After the recent Cognitive Development Society meeting, several people asked how w...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Randomization on mechanical turk

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Amazon Mechanical Turk is a fabulous way to do online psychology experiments. There have a bunch of good tutorial papers showing why (e.g. ...
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Friday, October 4, 2013

Effect sizes and baby rearing (review of Baby Meets World)

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In these first months of M's life, I've been reading a fair number of parenting advice or interest books focused on babies. My motiv...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

M discovers objects

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(M's bouncy chair, complete with newly fascinating objects.) We've just returned from a trip to see family, in honor of my daug...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Post-publication peer review and social shaming

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Is the peer review system broken? Arguably . Peer review can be frustrating, both in what gets through and what doesn't. So recently the...
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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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