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Now in “Mind, Brain & Education” - Thanks Dr. Nadine Gaab Dr. Courtney Pollack (now at BlueSky) Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social Joanna Christodoulou & whole team for this great overview piece for Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) & the field of edu neuroscience as a whole . IMBES Wiley Wiley Psychology

I'd like to hire a post-doc, to start this summer or fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_postdo… Official posting: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13532

Great opportunity! Tomer is awesome.

you can read more in the links, but briefly -- research topic is in common-sense, particularly theory-of-mind & pragmatics. While not strictly required, I have an interest in how we reason about ‘scripted’ behaviors - how/when we perceive *others* as being “on automatic"

Thanks Roman Feiman for taking us on a fascinating tour to one of the most foundational questions in cognitive science: "What is a thought?" 🤔💭 Roman's work shows how linguists' formal theories of meaning can serve as computational theories of thought.

CDS Attendees: Check out talks and posters coming from/collaborating with Bonawitz CoCoDev lab @ Harvard Ed! #CDS2024

🎉We're thrilled to announce that the invited speakers for BCCCD25 are: Antonia Hamilton, Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social, and Pierre-Yves Oudeyer! We are looking forward to receiving your submissions in September: bcccd.org #BCCCD25 #BCCCD #CognitiveScience

And I am thrilled to participate to BCCCD25 to give a talk (on curiosity in development, AI and education) next to Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social and Antonia Hamilton, thanks a lot for the invitation @cogdevceu 🙏

Excited to share our new paper (& model!) advocating for combining adult research w/ comp models AND developmental perspectives to examine complex interactions b/w congruency & episodic memory! Carla Macias special thanks! Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.375…

commentary out now in BBS (with Sophie Bridgers): "Genies, lawyers, and smart-asses: Extending proxy failures to intentional misunderstandings" (a response to John et al.'s recent fun piece on "proxy failures") free pre-print here: tomerullman.org/papers/genieBB…

now officially out in Cognitive Science! "Teaching Without Thinking: Negative Evaluations of Rote Pedagogy" (by Bass Bonnie Lass, Ph.D. 🇺🇦, Espinoza Cristian Espinoza, Bonawitz Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social, and me) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

For those attending #SPP2024, come check out Igor Bascandziev present some of our new findings on the roles for error detection in children's theory revision. (Friday 11AM, Session 3b), w/ co-authors @adani.bsky.social Caren Walker & myself.

I'm sad I can't be at #SPP2024 this year, I have a dog on my feet and it won't let me. But, I'm happy for those who are going. If you're there, check out presentations by Yichen Li Yichen Li and Peng Qian!

Hey everyone! I'm excited to share that I'll be giving a talk on young children's ability to reason about multiple, mutually exclusive object identities at #SPP2024! Come check out our new work with @levels_of! 🗓️ Saturday, June 22 🕒 3:30 PM 📍 North Ballroom, Session 6A

Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ) DARPA abstracts are due June 25th at noon. 2 pages. Submit your best ideas! Info and abstract template: sam.gov/opp/78b028e5fc… (The formatting of the template, not the word doc, matters) Submit! baa.darpa.mil/Public/Securit…

16-month-old infants showed heightened theta oscillations for informative versus uninformative causal evidence. This relationship was more pronounced in infants who subsequently made correct predictions based on this information. Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s4427…

Oh hey, our new paper is out! Led by Katarina Begus, we explored 16m olds reasoning. Infant's theta response discerned between predicted confounded & uncon events, suggesting that infants can strategically direct attention to events that are likely to reveal informative evidence.

Now out in Cognition! ➰"Ambivalence by Design: A Computational Account of Loopholes"➰ by Qian, Bridgers, Parece, Maya Taliaferro, and me bit.ly/cognitionLooph…

Now out in Behavioral Sciences MDPI: "Young Children’s Directed Question Asking in Preschool Classrooms" 🤔❔🙋 doi.org/10.3390/bs1409… Even in less structured settings like free play, children are strategic in their question-asking behavior... (1/3)