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marjorie rhodes

@marjorierhodes.bsky.social

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I do developmental cognitive science at nyu; interested in social cognition, conceptual development, science for social change, and language and thought

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Marianna Zhang

@mariannazhang.bsky.social

📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶‍♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵

continuum of inductive potential from low (relatively minimal categories whose members are dissimilar) to high (coherent meaningful categories whose members are similar) above a cartoon child. an icon of a tiger appears under "high" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a tiger in a zoo, with an arrow pointing to the tiger icon, and a dashed arrow extending it to a tiger on a savanna. an icon of a pedestrian appears under "low" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a woman on a street, with Xs over arrows pointing to the pedestrian icon, and to a different pedestrian.

July 31, 2025 at 6:10 AM

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Edouard Machery

@edouardmachery.bsky.social

SPP abstracts for the 50th Anniversary Meeting are due in one month, with a great lineup of speakers and events!

December 31, 2023 at 5:26 PM

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debkelemen

@debkelemen.bsky.social

Still stunned that @levelsof.bsky.social and I got this "band" back together for a CDS preconf. CDS registration opens soon so register quick while seats last! 🙏🙏to Susan Gelman, Larry Hirschfeld, Scott Atran, Susan Carey, Alison Gopnik, Paul Harris, Frank Keil, Alan Leslie, Liz Spelke Henry Wellman