Studying parents and infants together, as a co-evolved and co-developing system, can reveal new sources of developmental change, as we show here. Thanks to Steven Elmlinger and @middycasillas for all their work on this!

Good to see the robustness of our simplification effect across several contexts now!

Terrific and provocative new paper by @mark_s_blumberg and Karen Adolph! Bringing psychobiological data to human development often supports a constructivist theoretical perspective, in contrast to nativist theories that rely on looking time. "Something's gotta give" indeed.

Lab breakfast with the brilliant and inspiring Chen Yu who is here to give the 2023 Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson Lecture in Experimental Psychology!

Thanks to Center for Integrative Developmental Science for funding Elanor's summer research with my lab! She is already off to a brilliant start. As a first-year undergraduate, she's already running a study!

Exciting preprint out from the lab by postdoc Matthew Zipple 🇺🇦 and Caleb Vogt looking at the role of environment in shaping patterns of behavior in genetically identical 🐁 (except the ones we used had black fur) see Matthew’s 🧵 below 👇

Excited to share our latest work in @nature. “Dopaminergic error signals retune to social feedback during courtship” tiny.cc/77lbvz Huge congrats to co-first author AndreaRoeser, Jesse Goldberg, and the team! Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Columbia University Neurobio & Behavior Cornell University 1/3

Communication is complex, made all the more so by being fundamentally multimodal. My new paper introduces a framework for using network methods to analyse communication as an interconnected system, using plains zebras as a case study. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am recruiting a postdoc in computational / systems neuroscience to study mechanisms of social communication and cognition in budgerigars. We are cracking this system wide open. Please share. youtu.be/0r7-QvwqVjM

Our new paper is out today in nature , showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans nature.com/articles/s4158…

1) Time to submit abstracts! The 2024 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication GRC is drawing closer. There's an awesome line-up of speakers working with birds, flies, monkeys, fish, snakes and more. Additional speakers will be selected from abstracts. Please spread the word!

Can we get the benefits of #forestschools and #outdoorlearning in an urban inner city setting? New paper for Journal of Environmental Psychology by Gemma Goldenberg (@phd_and_three on insta), Molly Atkinson, Jan Dubiel, Newham Learning #eyfs osf.io/preprints/osf/…

interested in developmental applications of machine learning/computer vision? Sam Wass Sinead Rocha-Thomas @trinh_nguyen9 Ori Ossmy @PrzemekTomalski and i are hosting a workshop at the ICIS meeting in Glasgow and launching a new listserv: padlab.ucr.edu/posts/2024-03-…

Thank you so much Princeton University Press, being published by you was my first reward, and now this prize! Let's hope it helps to bring the fascinating world of animal acoustic communication to as many people as possible. Institut universitaire de France (IUF) Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL National Geographic Academia Europaea

The latest from the lab, a two-paper set led by graduate student Vivian Hanwen Zhang, on the development of extended turn-taking organized by babbling. We keep finding ways that babbling in a social context is crucial for the development of communication!

Had a great time at the IEEE ICDL conference in Austin! Great conversations, brainstorming, new collaborations, and of course BBQ. Thanks to Chen Yu, Anne Warlaumont and the organizing committee for putting together a terrific conference!

.Vivian Hanwen Zhang Steven Elmlinger Rachel Albert & Michael Goldstein (2024) found caregiver vocal (not multimodal) responses keep infants in vocal turn-taking. Multimodal flexibility in vocal turn-taking may emerge over development #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.1…

Power of babble: Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech in response to babies’ babbling and early speech, supporting language development, Cornell Psychology research finds. CornellArts&Sciences Current Biology Michael Goldstein Steven Elmlinger news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/0…

How do languages become learnable for young children? Read our paper out now in Current Biology “Immature vocalizations elicit simplified adult speech across multiple languages” to find out! 🧵 of our findings below: cell.com/current-biolog… 1/9

Our new theory paper in Acta Psychologica shows that babies change how we see the world! In our lab, we use virtual environments to study parenting. We are finding that babies actively reshape our perception in ways that help protect them. Read more at sciencedirect.com/science/articl…