Infants who are rarely spoken to nevertheless understand many words | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

now a very different question: people with longitudinal projects: what fun/cute/informative things did you come up with, to keep your cohort happy and entertained? I have a couple examples but curious what worked particularly well. 🙏🙏 we will have months 12 --> 18 --> 30 --> 36

14‐month‐old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled - Kampis - 2024 - Infancy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in…

In Memoriam of the great Daniel Dennett at the inspiring #ASSC27 in wonderful Tokyo 💕

.dora kampis tales from the end of times Poulsen Eugenio Parise Victoria Southgate (2024): 14mo infants showed larger N400 when occluded objects were mislabelled => infants can sustain an object repn in memory & compare it to a semantic repn of a heard label #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.1…"

35 years of studies argue that kids assume word meanings are mutually exclusive. In Association for Psychological Science, Gabor Brody, Athulya Aravind, and I argue kids aren't making an assumption. We show 2y.o. only think words are mutually exclusive when they're told so. 1/ osf.io/awtch

beyond excited about next year's DuCog which we organize together with Louise Goupil, on "Understanding the Self and the Other" infos below 👇

New preprint just published - WTools: a MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis, with Ambra Ferrari, Luca Filippin e MARCO BUIATTI. People were waiting for this since a while.... here it is: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

and all this implemented and tested by fantastic post-doc Nicolas Goupil who heroically made our visit-1 work 🥳

One of our biggest undertakings from the last years is finally out! 🥳 In this work with Victoria Southgate and with Dimitris Askitis (tales from the end of times) 's careful analyses we provide EEG evidence that the other's perspective not merely modulates, but biases and dominates over, infants'

EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY - CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) Warsaw, Poland September 2-5, 2025 Conference website: espp2025.ifispan.edu.pl Keynote Speakers Emma Borg (Institute of Philosophy,

Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information? Luke A. Townrow and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…