Brianna Hunter
@briannakhunter.bsky.social
Postdoc @ UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. Learning how babies learn 🧠
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A Quarter Century Review of Research on Infant Behavior and Development
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In celebration of the first 25 years into the 21st Century, we invite review manuscripts for a special issue on A Quarter Century Review of Research on Infant Behavior and Development. Reviews should ...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A Quarter Century Review of Research on Infant Behavior and Development
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I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast.
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
How to Build a Healthy Relationship With Your Kids with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar
YouTube video by 10 Seconds To Air
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November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast.
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
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Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
🚨 New paper out in Developmental Science!! 🚨
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
by Brianna Hunter, John Kiat, Steve Luck, & Lisa Oakes
View video abstract here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIV...
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
by Brianna Hunter, John Kiat, Steve Luck, & Lisa Oakes
View video abstract here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIV...
Relating infant fixations to adult fMRI data using the Natural Scenes Dataset
YouTube video by Brianna Hunter
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September 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🚨 New paper out in Developmental Science!! 🚨
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
by Brianna Hunter, John Kiat, Steve Luck, & Lisa Oakes
View video abstract here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIV...
Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
by Brianna Hunter, John Kiat, Steve Luck, & Lisa Oakes
View video abstract here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIV...
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NEW: Starting Nov. 1, New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to offer no-cost child care to every family, regardless of income. This is projected to amount to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child.
Yes, policy meeting people's needs is possible.
Yes, policy meeting people's needs is possible.
Governor: New Mexico to provide universal access to child care
Currently, the state’s child care assistance program covers costs for families with incomes at or below 400% of the federal poverty level.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NEW: Starting Nov. 1, New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to offer no-cost child care to every family, regardless of income. This is projected to amount to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child.
Yes, policy meeting people's needs is possible.
Yes, policy meeting people's needs is possible.
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Words and gestures help tune infant attention before they can speak. New UC Davis study finds babies focus longer when object labels ("bear") are paired with spatial words ("here"), and even longer when paired with gestures like pointing. ucdav.is/4lYtXgL
September 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Words and gestures help tune infant attention before they can speak. New UC Davis study finds babies focus longer when object labels ("bear") are paired with spatial words ("here"), and even longer when paired with gestures like pointing. ucdav.is/4lYtXgL
I wrote a paper with some of my favorite people synthesizing the last 25 years of research on my favorite topic: the development of visual attention during infancy 👶👀
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#infantcognition #development #visualperception #visualattention
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#infantcognition #development #visualperception #visualattention
September 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I wrote a paper with some of my favorite people synthesizing the last 25 years of research on my favorite topic: the development of visual attention during infancy 👶👀
doi.org/10.1016/j.in...
#infantcognition #development #visualperception #visualattention
doi.org/10.1016/j.in...
#infantcognition #development #visualperception #visualattention
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Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.
Resources for Research
This section provides brief summaries of selected resources for research that have been published in journals of the Psychonomic Society, typically Behavior Research Methods. These resources consis…
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August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.
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Delighted to share Resources for Researchers webpage has received a 2025 Commendation from @improvingpsych.org! We look forward to continuing this work to help everyone navigate academia and help academia be more welcoming to everyone!
www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...
www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...
July 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Delighted to share Resources for Researchers webpage has received a 2025 Commendation from @improvingpsych.org! We look forward to continuing this work to help everyone navigate academia and help academia be more welcoming to everyone!
www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...
www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...
The Oakes lab had a highly productive last few days!!! Lisa organized and hosted a writing retreat with lots of goal setting, writing time, and check-ins.
This pic was day 1 coffee & goal setting time. I intended to take more pics and document the full retreat but got swept away in writing!!
This pic was day 1 coffee & goal setting time. I intended to take more pics and document the full retreat but got swept away in writing!!
June 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The Oakes lab had a highly productive last few days!!! Lisa organized and hosted a writing retreat with lots of goal setting, writing time, and check-ins.
This pic was day 1 coffee & goal setting time. I intended to take more pics and document the full retreat but got swept away in writing!!
This pic was day 1 coffee & goal setting time. I intended to take more pics and document the full retreat but got swept away in writing!!
First time watching a mentee give a talk 🤩🥹
June 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
First time watching a mentee give a talk 🤩🥹
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Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.
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May 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
It’s been SUCH a fulfilling month of research!! Got to talk about my infant scene viewing work at the Bay Area Developmental Symposium and at the Vision Sciences Society meeting. Feeling very grateful to have met so many interesting people and to be a part of these welcoming communities 👁️🧠👶🖼️
May 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It’s been SUCH a fulfilling month of research!! Got to talk about my infant scene viewing work at the Bay Area Developmental Symposium and at the Vision Sciences Society meeting. Feeling very grateful to have met so many interesting people and to be a part of these welcoming communities 👁️🧠👶🖼️
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NEW PAPER
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation?
A: Orientation!
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation?
A: Orientation!
April 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
NEW PAPER
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation?
A: Orientation!
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation?
A: Orientation!
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@malte.the100.ci took the chance & hired me as a postdoc last year and with @ruben.the100.ci @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ianhussey.bsky.social and Lorenz Oehler we wrote a paper on what researchers could do to improve the measurement problems in psychological science. Ruben's figure is a work of art!
Defragmenting psychology - Nature Human Behaviour
Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation. We call on the field to defragment psy...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
@malte.the100.ci took the chance & hired me as a postdoc last year and with @ruben.the100.ci @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ianhussey.bsky.social and Lorenz Oehler we wrote a paper on what researchers could do to improve the measurement problems in psychological science. Ruben's figure is a work of art!
Cece’s 2024 scientific year in review
-participated in 12 remote and 5 in-person studies
-helped train 4 RAs in the lab
-featured in 5 talks/manuscripts
-attended 3 departmental seminars
-attended 1 international and 1 local conference
It’s been the BEST year including my daughter in my work! 🧠👁️👶👩🔬
-participated in 12 remote and 5 in-person studies
-helped train 4 RAs in the lab
-featured in 5 talks/manuscripts
-attended 3 departmental seminars
-attended 1 international and 1 local conference
It’s been the BEST year including my daughter in my work! 🧠👁️👶👩🔬
January 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Cece’s 2024 scientific year in review
-participated in 12 remote and 5 in-person studies
-helped train 4 RAs in the lab
-featured in 5 talks/manuscripts
-attended 3 departmental seminars
-attended 1 international and 1 local conference
It’s been the BEST year including my daughter in my work! 🧠👁️👶👩🔬
-participated in 12 remote and 5 in-person studies
-helped train 4 RAs in the lab
-featured in 5 talks/manuscripts
-attended 3 departmental seminars
-attended 1 international and 1 local conference
It’s been the BEST year including my daughter in my work! 🧠👁️👶👩🔬
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So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!!
Check out the ToC!
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Check out the ToC!
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The Portable Mentor
Cambridge Core - Psychiatry - The Portable Mentor
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December 13, 2024 at 6:26 PM
So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!!
Check out the ToC!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
Check out the ToC!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
Great morning at the UC Davis Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference! Big congrats to @shannonmklotz.bsky.social and Erim Kızıldere for a people’s choice poster award!
December 10, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Great morning at the UC Davis Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference! Big congrats to @shannonmklotz.bsky.social and Erim Kızıldere for a people’s choice poster award!
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Exciting news: #UCDavis has ranked in the top 5 of public universities for undergraduate #psychology programs in the nation! We’re proud to be leading the way in shaping the next generation of psychologists!
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November 4, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Exciting news: #UCDavis has ranked in the top 5 of public universities for undergraduate #psychology programs in the nation! We’re proud to be leading the way in shaping the next generation of psychologists!
www.usnews.com/best-college...
www.usnews.com/best-college...
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Lisa, I just joined Blue Sky so I could post about Steve as my first Blue Sky post! But you beat me to it. Ok...your privilege, I agree. So I will simply add a photo of me leading a cheer as we announced Steve's prize in the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain! The crowd went wild....! 💥
December 8, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Lisa, I just joined Blue Sky so I could post about Steve as my first Blue Sky post! But you beat me to it. Ok...your privilege, I agree. So I will simply add a photo of me leading a cheer as we announced Steve's prize in the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain! The crowd went wild....! 💥
No one more deserving of the UC Davis prize than the brilliant Steve Luck!
The brilliant Steve Luck (not yet on Bluesky) was awarded the UC Davis Prize yesterday by Chancellor Gary May. This is the highest honor UC Davis gives to a faculty member academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/uc-davis-pri...
December 7, 2024 at 10:00 PM
No one more deserving of the UC Davis prize than the brilliant Steve Luck!
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Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress.
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
November 18, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress.
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵
Reposted by Brianna Hunter
Reposted by Brianna Hunter
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
December 2, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)!
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration.
More details here: cldlab.org/join/
🧠💻 #psychscisky
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#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?
Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!
Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?
Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!
Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
December 2, 2024 at 4:52 PM
#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?
Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!
Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?
Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!
Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9