Baby & Child Research Center
@brcnijmegen.bsky.social
Our Research Center in Nijmegen (NL) studies children's development from pregnancy to preschool! A partnership between Radboud University, Radboud UMC and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
We are delighted to announce that @nataliebrito.bsky.social will speak at our online BRC Colloquium on October 14th (2 pm - 3.15 pm Amsterdam time). More info: babyandchild.nl/evenementen/...
#colloquium #developmentalscience
#colloquium #developmentalscience
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October 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
We are delighted to announce that @nataliebrito.bsky.social will speak at our online BRC Colloquium on October 14th (2 pm - 3.15 pm Amsterdam time). More info: babyandchild.nl/evenementen/...
#colloquium #developmentalscience
#colloquium #developmentalscience
The longitudinal 'BIBO study' of @cdeweerth.bsky.social's Developmental Psychobiology Lab received the Radboud Team Science Award 2025! Congrats, Carolina and colleagues! www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
Winners of the Radboud Team Science Award 2025 announced | Radboud University
The Radboud Team Science Award of 2025 goes to the team Basic Influences on Baby Development (BIBO).
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September 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The longitudinal 'BIBO study' of @cdeweerth.bsky.social's Developmental Psychobiology Lab received the Radboud Team Science Award 2025! Congrats, Carolina and colleagues! www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
📢 The BabyBRAIN Lab (Donders Institute) is hiring a PhD candidate!
💡Study learning in infants & young children using innovative neurocognitive tools and behavioral measures.
🎓 MSc in psychology/neuroscience preferred.
#phd #vacancy #development #cognitiveneuroscience
💡Study learning in infants & young children using innovative neurocognitive tools and behavioral measures.
🎓 MSc in psychology/neuroscience preferred.
#phd #vacancy #development #cognitiveneuroscience
August 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📢 The BabyBRAIN Lab (Donders Institute) is hiring a PhD candidate!
💡Study learning in infants & young children using innovative neurocognitive tools and behavioral measures.
🎓 MSc in psychology/neuroscience preferred.
#phd #vacancy #development #cognitiveneuroscience
💡Study learning in infants & young children using innovative neurocognitive tools and behavioral measures.
🎓 MSc in psychology/neuroscience preferred.
#phd #vacancy #development #cognitiveneuroscience
Waarom zeggen jonge kinderen 'nijn' in plaats van 'konijn'? Bekijk het hier! youtube.com/shorts/rozlD... #nijntje #taalontwikkeling
Waarom zeggen jonge kinderen nijn voor konijn?
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July 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Waarom zeggen jonge kinderen 'nijn' in plaats van 'konijn'? Bekijk het hier! youtube.com/shorts/rozlD... #nijntje #taalontwikkeling
Baby’s zijn kleine leermachines 🧠. Ze zijn de hele dag aan het leren! Over zichzelf👶, hun omgeving🌍 en de mensen om hun heen👨👨👧👦. Bekijk hier wat wij hebben ontdekt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHp...
#leren #baby #nieuwsgierig #onderzoek #wetenschap
#leren #baby #nieuwsgierig #onderzoek #wetenschap
Hoe ontdekken kinderen de wereld?
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July 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Baby’s zijn kleine leermachines 🧠. Ze zijn de hele dag aan het leren! Over zichzelf👶, hun omgeving🌍 en de mensen om hun heen👨👨👧👦. Bekijk hier wat wij hebben ontdekt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHp...
#leren #baby #nieuwsgierig #onderzoek #wetenschap
#leren #baby #nieuwsgierig #onderzoek #wetenschap
Marlene Meyer & @robertoostenveld.bsky.social just received an NWO grant for studying how statistical learning in infants shapes language and social skills 👶 🧠. Congrats, Marlene & Robert!
#grant #nwo #babybrain #statisticallearning
#grant #nwo #babybrain #statisticallearning
Two Donders Institute projects just received €400K NWO grants. @stephforkel.bsky.social studies speech circuits in Parkinson’s for better treatments. Meyer & @robertoostenveld.bsky.social track 200 infants to see how early brain learning shapes language & social skills.
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NWO grants to explore brain circuits and baby’s learning | Radboud University
Two projects have been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Open Competition M grants of €400,000 by NWO. Their work will shed new light on how our brains support speech and learning.
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July 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Marlene Meyer & @robertoostenveld.bsky.social just received an NWO grant for studying how statistical learning in infants shapes language and social skills 👶 🧠. Congrats, Marlene & Robert!
#grant #nwo #babybrain #statisticallearning
#grant #nwo #babybrain #statisticallearning
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We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Baby's huilen. Dat is een feit. Maar waarom huilen ze? Wat weten we al wel, en wat nog niet? Bekijk het hier: youtube.com/shorts/Ou0X8...
#baby #huilen #huilbaby #wetenschap
#baby #huilen #huilbaby #wetenschap
Wat weten we over huilende baby's?
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July 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Baby's huilen. Dat is een feit. Maar waarom huilen ze? Wat weten we al wel, en wat nog niet? Bekijk het hier: youtube.com/shorts/Ou0X8...
#baby #huilen #huilbaby #wetenschap
#baby #huilen #huilbaby #wetenschap
Babies beat bots at language learning!
Read thread below.
#language #languagedevelopment #chatgtp #machinelearning
Read thread below.
#language #languagedevelopment #chatgtp #machinelearning
Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/
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Constructing language: a framework for explaining acquisition
Explaining how children build a language system is a central goal of research in language
acquisition, with broad implications for language evolution, adult language processing,
and artificial intelli...
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July 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Babies beat bots at language learning!
Read thread below.
#language #languagedevelopment #chatgtp #machinelearning
Read thread below.
#language #languagedevelopment #chatgtp #machinelearning
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📰 Humans from different cultures talk to their children using “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. But according to new research, this characteristic is however far from prevalent in our closest relatives, the non-human great apes...
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Baby-talk - a human superpower? - NCCR Evolving Language
Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as "child-directed speech", or “baby talk”. Though to us, it may seem natural to communicate directly with our littl...
evolvinglanguage.ch
June 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
📰 Humans from different cultures talk to their children using “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. But according to new research, this characteristic is however far from prevalent in our closest relatives, the non-human great apes...
evolvinglanguage.ch/baby-talk-a-...
evolvinglanguage.ch/baby-talk-a-...
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New paper by our @nccrlanguage.bsky.social team w @franziswegdell.bsky.social, @carolinefryns.bsky.social , J Schick , @zuberbuehler.bsky.social, C v Schaik, S Townsend, and myself. Child-directed communication is a driver of language evolution.
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June 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
New paper by our @nccrlanguage.bsky.social team w @franziswegdell.bsky.social, @carolinefryns.bsky.social , J Schick , @zuberbuehler.bsky.social, C v Schaik, S Townsend, and myself. Child-directed communication is a driver of language evolution.
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Hoe leren kinderen hun eerste woordje? Bekijk het hier! www.youtube.com/shorts/fLV3M...
#taalontwikkeling #baby #babybrein
#taalontwikkeling #baby #babybrein
Hoe leren kinderen hun eerste woordje?
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June 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Hoe leren kinderen hun eerste woordje? Bekijk het hier! www.youtube.com/shorts/fLV3M...
#taalontwikkeling #baby #babybrein
#taalontwikkeling #baby #babybrein
New paper!
Flexible babies: eight-month-old babies can adapt their learning strategy to their environment.
#volatility #learning #baby #developmentalscience #computationalmodelling
Flexible babies: eight-month-old babies can adapt their learning strategy to their environment.
#volatility #learning #baby #developmentalscience #computationalmodelling
Out now in Science Advances! We find that infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament. This has be so much fun to work on and ended up being my favourite personal paper! So excited it's out!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Volatility-driven learning in human infants
Infants estimate environmental volatility to learn optimally, with early individual differences linked to temperament.
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June 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New paper!
Flexible babies: eight-month-old babies can adapt their learning strategy to their environment.
#volatility #learning #baby #developmentalscience #computationalmodelling
Flexible babies: eight-month-old babies can adapt their learning strategy to their environment.
#volatility #learning #baby #developmentalscience #computationalmodelling
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Eight-month-old infants demonstrate the ability to flexibly adapt their learning strategies in response to changing environments, suggesting early cognitive flexibility. doi.org/g9rc8x
Eight-month-old babies can adapt their learning style to changing situations
Babies as young as eight months old can adapt their learning style to changing situations, according to research by Francesco Poli of the Donders Institute at Radboud University.
medicalxpress.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Eight-month-old infants demonstrate the ability to flexibly adapt their learning strategies in response to changing environments, suggesting early cognitive flexibility. doi.org/g9rc8x
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🧒🧠 If humans learned language like AI, it would take 92,000 years. Luckily, new research from Caroline Rowland (@mpi-nl.bsky.social) shows children learn through touch, movement & play as well.
Brains over bots 👇
www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
Brains over bots 👇
www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
June 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🧒🧠 If humans learned language like AI, it would take 92,000 years. Luckily, new research from Caroline Rowland (@mpi-nl.bsky.social) shows children learn through touch, movement & play as well.
Brains over bots 👇
www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
Brains over bots 👇
www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
New paper✨
Brains over bots: Why toddlers still beat AI at learning language @carorowland.bsky.social www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
#chatgtp #ai #language #baby #child
Brains over bots: Why toddlers still beat AI at learning language @carorowland.bsky.social www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
#chatgtp #ai #language #baby #child
Brains over Bots: Why Toddlers Still Beat AI at Learning Language | Max Planck Institute
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June 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New paper✨
Brains over bots: Why toddlers still beat AI at learning language @carorowland.bsky.social www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
#chatgtp #ai #language #baby #child
Brains over bots: Why toddlers still beat AI at learning language @carorowland.bsky.social www.mpi.nl/news/brains-...
#chatgtp #ai #language #baby #child
Hoe weten wij wat baby's weten? Wat gaat er om in hun hoofd? Bekijk hier hoe wij hier achterkomen: www.instagram.com/p/DK1Bacus4uy/ #baby #onderzoek
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June 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Hoe weten wij wat baby's weten? Wat gaat er om in hun hoofd? Bekijk hier hoe wij hier achterkomen: www.instagram.com/p/DK1Bacus4uy/ #baby #onderzoek
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It was super fun to showcase and discuss some of the first results from our CODEC project with attendees at the #wearables #biomarkers symposium yesterday!
May 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
It was super fun to showcase and discuss some of the first results from our CODEC project with attendees at the #wearables #biomarkers symposium yesterday!
Welke taal kun je het beste met je kind spreken? Wetenschap heeft een duidelijk antwoord: Spreek de taal van je hart!
www.instagram.com/p/DKi_45UsKKp/ #taalontwikkeling #moedertaal
www.instagram.com/p/DKi_45UsKKp/ #taalontwikkeling #moedertaal
baby_child_research_center on Instagram: "𝔽𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝔹𝕒𝕓𝕪 𝔽𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕤 👶 🧠Woon je in Nederland maar is Nederlands niet jouw moedertaal💬? Welke taal kun je dan het bes…"
𝔽𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝔹𝕒𝕓𝕪 𝔽𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕤 👶 🧠Woon je in Nederland maar is Nederlands niet jouw moedertaal💬? Welke taal kun je dan het beste spreken met je kindje? Het advies vanuit de wetenschap is duidelijk: spreek de taal van je hart! ❤---What language should you speak with your baby 💬, when you live in the Netherlands but Dutch isn’t your native language? Science sends a clear message: speak the language of your heart! ❤---𝘋𝘦 𝘬𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘸𝘦𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘬𝘦 𝘷𝘳𝘪𝘫𝘥𝘢𝘨 𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘬𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺'𝘴 𝘦𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯. 𝘞𝘢𝘵 𝘻𝘦𝘨𝘵 𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱? 𝘞𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭, 𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘨 𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘵?Animaties zijn gemaakt door @brunovanwayenburg en @sijarosa.#fridaybabyfacts #funfacts #babyfacts #wetenschap #weetjes #spreekdetaalvanjehart #moedertaal #mothertongue #nativelanguage #dutch #taaltips
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June 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Welke taal kun je het beste met je kind spreken? Wetenschap heeft een duidelijk antwoord: Spreek de taal van je hart!
www.instagram.com/p/DKi_45UsKKp/ #taalontwikkeling #moedertaal
www.instagram.com/p/DKi_45UsKKp/ #taalontwikkeling #moedertaal
Today at 2pm (Amsterdam time): Baby & Child Colloquium by Jochen Triesch, titled: Computational Modeling of the Development of Abstract Object Representations. Join in person or online. www.ru.nl/en/donders-i... #colloquium #development
Baby & Child Colloquium | Radboud University
What are the origins of abstract knowledge about objects? Infants and toddlers learn about objects quite differently from today’s artificial intelligence systems.
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May 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Today at 2pm (Amsterdam time): Baby & Child Colloquium by Jochen Triesch, titled: Computational Modeling of the Development of Abstract Object Representations. Join in person or online. www.ru.nl/en/donders-i... #colloquium #development
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I'm very pleased to share our latest study:
‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’,
by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al:
- Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub...
- Blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa...
- Thread below 👇
‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’,
by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al:
- Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub...
- Blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa...
- Thread below 👇
May 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm very pleased to share our latest study:
‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’,
by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al:
- Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub...
- Blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa...
- Thread below 👇
‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’,
by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al:
- Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub...
- Blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa...
- Thread below 👇
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We are recruiting two PhD students on cortical folding variability and organisation before birth, using fetal MRI. Come and join a motivated and happy team with tons of great fetal data, in a sunny, friendly, and inclusive environment.
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May 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
We are recruiting two PhD students on cortical folding variability and organisation before birth, using fetal MRI. Come and join a motivated and happy team with tons of great fetal data, in a sunny, friendly, and inclusive environment.
tinyurl.com/foldsOrganis...
tinyurl.com/foldingVaria...
tinyurl.com/foldsOrganis...
tinyurl.com/foldingVaria...
The BRC was very lucky to have @francescopoli.bsky.social as her PhD student. He successfully defended his thesis at Radboud Uni in 2024, and has now received the Glushko Prize for his outstanding dissertation from @cogscisociety.bsky.social.
Congrats Francesco! What an achievement!
#phd #cogsci
Congrats Francesco! What an achievement!
#phd #cogsci
I still can't believe this! I'm deeply grateful to Bob Glushko and to @cogscisociety.bsky.social for this award. Huge thanks to my advisors @sabinehunnius.bsky.social and @neuroecologylab.bsky.social, and to many more collaborators, all the work in my thesis would have been impossible without them!
Join us in congratulating the rising stars of #CogSci 🌟
We're excited to introduce the 2025 Glushko Prize winners, and the fascinating research behind their work!
We're excited to introduce the 2025 Glushko Prize winners, and the fascinating research behind their work!
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The BRC was very lucky to have @francescopoli.bsky.social as her PhD student. He successfully defended his thesis at Radboud Uni in 2024, and has now received the Glushko Prize for his outstanding dissertation from @cogscisociety.bsky.social.
Congrats Francesco! What an achievement!
#phd #cogsci
Congrats Francesco! What an achievement!
#phd #cogsci
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"How infants learn and explore: From behavior to computations" 👶⚙️
This review outlines my take on early development, mostly driven by frustration that infancy research focuses on what infants can do, not how.
Still a Preprint! Missing-literature suggestions welcome :)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
This review outlines my take on early development, mostly driven by frustration that infancy research focuses on what infants can do, not how.
Still a Preprint! Missing-literature suggestions welcome :)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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April 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"How infants learn and explore: From behavior to computations" 👶⚙️
This review outlines my take on early development, mostly driven by frustration that infancy research focuses on what infants can do, not how.
Still a Preprint! Missing-literature suggestions welcome :)
osf.io/preprints/ps...
This review outlines my take on early development, mostly driven by frustration that infancy research focuses on what infants can do, not how.
Still a Preprint! Missing-literature suggestions welcome :)
osf.io/preprints/ps...