Diana Lopera-Perez reminded me that we have this great community in slack if you would like to join! This is meant for trainees (any level) who do dev work :) 👉🏽join.slack.com/t/traineesinde… ISDP ICIS Society for Research in Child Development SRCDBlackCaucus Black in Psych #developmentalpsych #devpsy

Study from UC Davis reveals new take on visual development in babies. #NEIfunded Watch the video and read more: bit.ly/3vbKIRs

A nice video on the National Eye Institute website of some cool work in Lisa Oakes' baby lab that we've been collaborating on. nei.nih.gov/about/news-and…

Getting back into academic Twitter & figured I’d share 2 huge life updates: I received a NRSA F32 fellowship from NEI to study infant visual attention!! … and I had a baby!!!!! Both have been so exciting but second update is way cuter than the first (see below)

Other families let the firstborn grandkid decide grandparent names by naturally saying cute nicknames. I’m trying a different approach… here’s my 3-month-old doing a VPC task I designed (my parents’ faces vs strangers w/ audio of diff names, longest looking time wins) 🤓

What a fun lab meeting activity!!!

Infant happiness survey - please share!

I’ve always said that I know that a manuscript is ready to submit for publication when it “sings.” It’s not just varied sentence structure that makes a paper sing— it needs to go through a number of other stages first. 🧵

What kind of visual input drives amygdala activity? Here we deliberately increased the complexity of a stimulus set to explore multiple theories of amygdala function in 🐵 The results suggest that the face of a stranger is not the amyg’s fav stimulus. doi.org/10.1093/cercor…

A moment I’ve been dreaming about since I started conducting infant research 8+ yrs ago 💚 My very own baby participating in my study!!!

Becoming a parent has given me new insight into key gaps in our understanding of development....gaps like WHY DO BABIES LOVE CRINKLING PAPER SO MUCH?

How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words: ** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary ** arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016 1/11

Some memories from the last few days exploring Liverpool and Northumberland 🎵🍻🏰⚔️👑 Grateful that #ICIS2024 gave us this excuse to travel and that my 6-month-old baby smiles at every stranger she sees despite being completely overtired, jet lagged, and teething 😅

Happy #ICIS2024! Come watch me talk about infant visual attention development and science communication over the next few days 👀🧠👶

Interested in Science Dissemination? Attending #ICIS2024 ?? Check out our panel perfect for graduate students and early career researchers where we'll cover the "do's and don'ts" of presenting research findings! 🗣️👶 When? July 11th from 1pm-2pm Where? Alsh 2

We had such a great turn out for our panel today!! Big thank you to the panelists and the ICIS student committee for the support !! 🗣️🖥️👶 ICIS #ICIS2024 Amanda Delgado Brianna Hunter Maheen Siddiqui

Had the best time representing Learning & Brain Development Lab and so excited for everything we will do in the future 😊 Couldn’t have asked for better mentors and an even better team Julie Markant Brooke Montgomery and Brianna Hunter ✨ Incredibly grateful to ICIS for their support 🎉

Endogenous control and reward-based mechanisms shape infants' attention biases to caregiver faces - by Brianna Hunter, Brooke Montgomery, Aditi Sridhar, & Julie Markant #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1002/dev.22…

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