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Not teaching it in teacher prep isn't enough...need to explain why it's not right, why it seems right, and offer better ways of thinking about student variation. digest.bps.org.uk/2021/02/04/the…

When kids ask for help, should you give them the answer right away, or is that robbing them of the pleasure of figuring it out on their own, and building resilience? What's the right mix of support and challenge? My take in L.A. Times Opinion latimes.com/opinion/story/…

A world of pure imagination: Ori Friedman highlights this paper by Angela Nyhout & Language&LearningLab on the development of #counterfactualreasoning and the age at which this ability for what if #imagination is first shown by #children facultyopinions.com/prime/73447374…

📢Call for Ontario elementary teachers for a short survey!📢

From a presentation that our lovely research assistant, Emily, put together about her experience in developmental psychology and our lab. Thank you to the staff and students at North West Year Round Alternative School for giving us the opportunity to share our love for research!

Amazing. Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a device that interprets neural signals meant to control the vocal tract, translate them into text, displayed on a screen; a paralyzed person can thus speak. 50 words so far. ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/4…

👏Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Ganea on being promoted to Professor! Professor Ganea is an internationally recognized researcher on children’s early cognitive development, with a focus on the social, linguistic and representational factors that influence children’s learning.

#UofT engineering & life sciences students to test how changes in gravity affect human genetics 🚀 uoft.me/6-a

Are you rushing to finish your syllabus? Consider adding some growth mindset language! Our new paper out this week in SPPS shows that faculty who signal a growth mindset about ability narrow gender gaps in STEM. Here's what we found: 1/ tinyurl.com/6zfyp4s4

IT'S HERE! Please take a look at our new open-access PNAS paper, “Gender stereotypes about interests start early and cause gender disparities in computer science and engineering”! (1/n) pnas.org/content/118/48…

🚨Now available📢 Special Issue on digital media & children under 3 yrs of age, which I guest edited (w/ Martha Arterberry Martha Arterberry) at Infant Behavior & Development. We hope it will inspire new questions & innovations in this field. THREAD of 25 papers, please RT! 1/n🧵

Strouse, G. A., & Ganea, P. A. (2021). Learning to learn from video? 30-month-olds benefit from continued use of supportive scaffolding. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101574. doi.org/10.1016/j.infb… @GabStrouse Language&LearningLab 24/n🧵

We have an open postdoctoral position in our lab. The projects will focus on the role of language in counterfactual reasoning and the relation between counterfactual and scientific reasoning skills. Retweet please and DM if interested.

My new post is about Growth Mindset, and how the claims about it have diminished over time. Is this the fabled “decline effect”? And what does it have to do with Gerry Adams? stuartritchie.substack.com/p/growth-minds…

Today's #PhilTransB theme issue explores our capacity to imagine different possibilities; how this ability develops, what it enables, and how it evolved. ow.ly/iWSb50Lj131 UQPsych Language&LearningLab

Our review paper “Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities” is out 🎉. w. Patricia Ganea Language&LearningLab royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… a 🧵(1/n)

Paper is part of the #PhilTransB theme issue “Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny” royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2022/…. Special thanks to Jonathan Redshaw and Patricia Ganea Language&LearningLab for editing and NSERC / CRSNG and SSHRC for funding (5/5).

A new special issue in Phil Trans B takes aim at one of the most fascinating aspects of the mind: the ability to think about possibilities. What might happen next? What might have happened but didn't? How do we get to grips with possible worlds? A thread 🧵...

Introduction to the special issue in Phil Trans B on Thinking about possibilities by Jonathan Redshaw and Patricia Ganea. Check it out for integrative summary of the issue and open questions. doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2…