Bobby Sparks
@rbzsparks.bsky.social
Research Professional @stanfordpsych LangCog Lab🧠
Stanford ‘22🌲 · Context & Cognition · Adaptations in Early Learning · #FirstGen, 🏳️🌈, he/him rbzsparks.github.io
Stanford ‘22🌲 · Context & Cognition · Adaptations in Early Learning · #FirstGen, 🏳️🌈, he/him rbzsparks.github.io
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Come see us at #cogsci2025! Here’s a (revised) list of posters and talks from my lab!
July 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Come see us at #cogsci2025! Here’s a (revised) list of posters and talks from my lab!
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
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Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
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📣Now hiring! I'm looking to recruit a full-time Research Specialist (Lab Manager) to join the Social and Moral Learning Lab at UW Madison starting this summer! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc... (application deadline March 21, 2025)
March 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
📣Now hiring! I'm looking to recruit a full-time Research Specialist (Lab Manager) to join the Social and Moral Learning Lab at UW Madison starting this summer! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc... (application deadline March 21, 2025)
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What is human #StatisticalLearning for? The standard assumption is that the goal of SL is to learn the regularities in the environment to guide behavior. In our new Psych Review paper, we argue that SL instead is provides the basis for novelty detection within an information foraging system
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February 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What is human #StatisticalLearning for? The standard assumption is that the goal of SL is to learn the regularities in the environment to guide behavior. In our new Psych Review paper, we argue that SL instead is provides the basis for novelty detection within an information foraging system
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My first and second research home(s)! Both incredible labs to grow in and do exciting work with before grad school.
Apply to be lab manager with Mike or Hyo!!
Apply to be lab manager with Mike or Hyo!!
Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
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careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
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careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
February 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My first and second research home(s)! Both incredible labs to grow in and do exciting work with before grad school.
Apply to be lab manager with Mike or Hyo!!
Apply to be lab manager with Mike or Hyo!!
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🔊 New paper just accepted in JPSP 🥳
In "Inference from social evaluation", we explore how people use social evaluations, such as judgments of blame or praise, to figure out what happened.
📜 osf.io/preprints/ps...
📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor...
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In "Inference from social evaluation", we explore how people use social evaluations, such as judgments of blame or praise, to figure out what happened.
📜 osf.io/preprints/ps...
📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
🔊 New paper just accepted in JPSP 🥳
In "Inference from social evaluation", we explore how people use social evaluations, such as judgments of blame or praise, to figure out what happened.
📜 osf.io/preprints/ps...
📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor...
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In "Inference from social evaluation", we explore how people use social evaluations, such as judgments of blame or praise, to figure out what happened.
📜 osf.io/preprints/ps...
📎 github.com/cicl-stanfor...
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"A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways"
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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 4, 2024 at 8:50 AM
"A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways"
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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#devpsych research, of course, means productive arts & crafts time with your lab - 2 hours of fun and 13 infant head-cams (BabyViews) ready to be used by families for data collection!🐞
October 6, 2023 at 8:32 PM
#devpsych research, of course, means productive arts & crafts time with your lab - 2 hours of fun and 13 infant head-cams (BabyViews) ready to be used by families for data collection!🐞
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Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024!
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD
Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!
vislearnlab.org
October 2, 2023 at 9:24 PM
Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024!
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.
The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.