Who's in Scotland (Edinburgh, Glasgow, maybe north of England) between February 6-18? I have a talk on Feb. 12 in Edinburgh, and am trying to extend my stay in Scotland/UK and might need couch(es) to crash...

Hi Lancaster, see you at @lcicd.bsky.social !

Yes - more developmental, more comparative, more evolutionary. Essentially we need a big, interdisciplinary Everything Bagel of cognitive science to understand why we are social.

Similarly, human children with congenital cataracts that are not treated within their first 4-6 months after birth may show life long differences in their configural face processing, e.g. in processing the Thatcher illusion.

The egg and its shell provide more than shelter. It is also an important way of prioritising information during development. Gottlieb found that exposing the duckling to light before hatching lead to a faster development of the visual system and slowed down auditory development.

Gottlieb investigated these interactions in ducks. Duck hatchlings can identify their mother's calls immediately after hatching. But is this ability innate? Not quite. It is embedded into a complex ontogenetic process that is built on interactions between the chick, the egg and its environment.

Authors, such as Susan Oyama and the late Gilbert Gottlieb, have argued that we need to take into account the interactions between a developing organism and its world, if we want to understand development both from an evolutionary and an ontogenetic perspective.

I always imagine BRMS as a little squirrel, sampling different piles of nuts. That gives me a bit more confidence in its results. 2

Meanwhile, enjoy these weightless babies from Kornafel et al. doi.org/10.1111/desc...