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Melissa Kibbe
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Cognitive Scientist, Associate Professor at Boston University, Director of the Developing Minds Lab https://www.bu.edu/cdl/developing-minds-lab/
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Gee, thanks for this "clarifying" diagram~
A diagram generated by ChatGPT purporting to show the connections between super colliculus and frontal eye field
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...
A hilariously inaccurate "diagram" of visual areas of the brain created by Chat GPT
August 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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CPL still has cool cards! The classic CPL logo with he buildings is on the other side.
Image of a Cambridge Public Library card featuring a photo of a stone carving of a person picking up books, taken from the building facade
June 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Come check out work from my lab at @socphilpsych.bsky.social SPP 2025!
List of presentation sessions for talk (June 18) and posters (June 19 and June 20) from folks in the BU Developing Minds Lab.
June 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Scene from the Simpsons, Marge saying "Well, anyone who beats you up for doing philosophy isn't your friend"
May 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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apparently brownie batter is a thing
A pint of Ben & Jerry's Brownie Batter Core ice cream
December 12, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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There's a need:
I'm in this starter pack and I don't like it
November 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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Throwback to the time I memed one of my own papers - Kibbe & Leslie (2011) (it's a little niche, but iykyn) #cogdevmemes #devpsych #cogpsych #psychscisky
Meme of a man walking with his girlfriend, checks out another woman while his girlfriend looks on angrily. The man is labeled "6-month-olds", the girlfriend is labeled "object's features" and the woman he is checking out is labeled "object's existence"
November 19, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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#cogdevmemes #devpsych #psychscisky
Are you sleeping meme format: In the first panel, a brain with eyes says, "Hey are you going to sleep?" In the second panel, a person with eyes closed says "Yes, now be quiet". In the third panel, the brain says "Many modern intro psych textbooks still teach that infants don't have object permanence even though that was debunked in the 1980s". In the fourth panel, the person in bed has their eyes wide open.
November 16, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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To celebrate deleting my twitter, I'm reposting some of my classic cognitive development memes from the other site. First, one of my all-time faves
Two choices meme - one button says "Where Sally thinks the marble is" and the other button says "Where the marble actually is". The sweating man who is tasked with making the choice between the two buttons is labeled "3-year-olds"
November 14, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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I have absolutely no regrets about this incredible Lord of the Rings pun that my grad advisor came up with for our paper on whether infants bind topology (rings vs. solids) to object representations
Title: "The ring that does not bind: Topological class in infants' working memory for objects" by Melissa M. Kibbe and Alan M. Leslie
September 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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This is cute :)
A badge showing that I was user #375,712 out of 10M on Bluesky, which apparently makes me "elder certified" as one of the first 10% of users
September 16, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Really curious about how Duolingo is coming up with the sentences in the "Talk about Irish Culture" portion of the #Gaeilge course... 😬
Screenshot from Duolingo with a sentence in Irish that translates to "He has red hair but is the leprechaun rich"
September 6, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Looked up someone on ratemyprofessor today out of curiosity, and discovered this perplexing mystery math
Screenshot from a ratemyprofessor profile that shows a distribution of ratings from 1-5, and then an average of 5.3/5
September 4, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Today I found out I am a robot, because there are clearly no "squares with motorcycles" in this image.
One of those "prove you aren't a robot" images that shows a grid of squares, with some containing parts of a motorcycle. Instructions are to select "all squares with motorcycles". No square contains a motorcycle.
March 28, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Thanks to everyone who came out for the 30th Anniversary of Mapping the Mind Workshop at #CDS2024! It was such a thrill and honor to be a part of bringing these folks together for an unforgettable day of talks and debate.
Images of the speakers at the Mapping the Mind Preconference Workshop at the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Pasadena, CA (Leslie, S. Gelman, Harris, Carey, Keil, Spelke, Wellman, Gopnik, Hirschfeld, R. Gelman)
March 25, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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These are all within a mile!
mapping showing grocery store locations near Pasadena Convention Center
March 19, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Come check out the Boston University Developing Minds Lab at the 2024 Cognitive Development Society Meeting!
THURSDAY MARCH 21 30th Anniversary of Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture 9 AM - 4:15 PM, Ballroom C POSTERS (11 AM - 12 PM) Do children adopt a moral hierarchy when reasoning about living and non-living entities? Turan-Küçük & Kelemen Do children track beliefs about imaginary objects in pretend contexts? Mbarki & Kibbe FRIDAY MARCH 22 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM Symposium 2.1, Ballroom AB Pre-number-knowers fast-map verbal labels onto sets of objects Cheng, Feigenson (JHU), & Kibbe POSTER SESSION 1 1:15 to 2:30pm (Exhibit Hall A) Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities. Esra Nur Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe POSTER SESSION 2 5:45 to 7:00 PM (Exhibit Hall A) Infants remember “objectness” best: examining 18-20-month-olds’ representations of objects’ featural and categorical identities Stahl (TCNJ) & Kibbe Children’s quantity perception is biased by high caloric foods Mbarki, atu-Aminu (Rutgers), Dindial (Rutgers), & Wang
March 17, 2024 at 8:14 PM
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OK, I looked up Bonatti et al. (2005) on Scholar today to cite it for something, and I am SHOCKED to see that this paper has only been cited 24 times! How is that possible?? This is one of those papers that looms large in my mind as a significant contribution to the infant lit...
Screenshot of Google Scholar reference for "What face inversion does to infants' counting abilities" by Bonatti, Frot, and Mehler, published in Psychological Science in 2005. The screenshot shows part of the abstract, and that it's been cited by 24.
March 4, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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New paper! @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social and I were curious about just how robust are infants' seemingly "catastrophic" failures to track sets of four or more objects, so we did a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis, now out in Developmental Science! 1/5
Screenshot of the title and author details from the PDF "Catastrophic" set size limits on infants' capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis by Jinjing (Jenny) Wang and Melissa M. Kibbe, published in Developmental Science.
February 29, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Duolingo slipping in a Mean Girls reference
Duolingo screen with the words Caithimid bándearg ar an gCéadaoin (in Irish), which translates to "We wear pink on Wednesdays" in English
December 5, 2023 at 1:28 AM
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Didn't expect my fortune cookie to have such a strong theoretical stance on memory encoding #cogpsych #psychscisky
A fortune from a cookie that reads "Attention is the mother of memory"
November 22, 2023 at 12:11 PM
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Fun tool!
September 24, 2023 at 5:43 PM
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They hung this sweater on a hanger?!?! Who does that? Whoever paid over a mil for this better like hanger bumps in sweater shoulders... www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/0...
September 15, 2023 at 3:34 PM
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We tested 4-8 yos in a variation of our Cheng & Kibbe (2022) “memory game”. On some trials, all the to-be-remembered objects were visible at encoding; on others, one of the object’s identities was unknown so its identity had to be inferred by eliminating known alternatives. 3/6
September 12, 2023 at 5:11 PM