When people are asked to draw devices, they include more causal parts, more symbols, less structural information, and more spatial distortions if their goal is to explain the device rather than depict it. Research by hollyhuey et al. at #SPP2022

How do children’s drawings change across development? My new CogSci Society #CogSci2022 paper w/ Judy Fan Bria Long, PhD Justin Yang galaxy monkey introduces a new dataset with every part labeled from >2K drawings of 16 visual concepts produced by 4-8 y.o. children!

Fresh off of Peekbank's 5th (??) hackathon, we found out that our paper introducing the Peekbank database & tools (peekbank.stanford.edu) is officially out in Behavior Research Methods! link.springer.com/article/10.375… Follow the thread below for more info on the project from our team!

📢 I'm accepting graduate students this year! Here's a list of my favorite resources for PhD applicants, and an FAQ for anyone who's interested in joining my lab: nataliavelez.notion.site/Information-fo… Feel free to reach out with questions!

New job posting from my dept.: UC San Diego invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position from candidates who take a computational approach to study psychology/neuroscience. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03359 Beautiful place & great colleagues!

📢 I'm hiring a lab manager to help launch and run my lab @ Princeton! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci, developmental psychology, or cognitive neuroscience before grad school. Review starts 3/31, start date 8/1! tinyurl.com/princetoncolab…

Job alert!🚨🧠🛠️ We Cognitive Tools Lab Stanford University Stanford Psychology are recruiting a full-time lab manager to join our team Summer/Fall 2023. More information available here: cogtoolslab.github.io/prospective.ht…. Please share widely! 🙏

Graphs are incredible tools for communicating key patterns in data! But it’s not always obvious which graph to use. Our CogSci Society #CogSci2023 paper w/ Judy Fan Lauren Oey Hannah Lloyd explores how people select graphs that make things easier for *viewers*!

It's really cool to see that people are reading about my first grad school project! Thanks for sharing it with the Psychology Today community, Art Markman

Apply by Dec 1 to the UCSD Cognitive Science PhD program: cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduates/phd-…. We have an incredible community working on language + cognition + development - if that's up your alley, check us out! I'll also be considering applications to join my new lab opening in Fall 2024.

Chaz out-Tweeted me to be the first to post about my new paper about detecting the ground truth from lies (that was just published in Computational Brain & Behavior!) More details to come soon!

Our fearless inaugural lab manager Bella Fascendini is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/res…