Simona Ghetti
Simona Ghetti
@simonag.bsky.social
Psychology professor interested in how children remember, make decisions and think about their future @UCDAVIS
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August 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Reposted by Simona Ghetti
The ability to judge the accuracy of our memories is fundamental to decision making. A new study from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain shows how this ability emerges in 2-3 year olds www.ucdavis.edu/news/toddler...
Toddlers’ Eye Movements Predict Ability to Judge Memories, New Research Suggests
The simple act of looking and comparing may be the first step toward learning how to judge what we remember, a skill that is fundamental to learning and making decisions.New research from the Universi...
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June 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Excited to share rdcu.be/eqKnJ
just out ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬

Reporting longitudinal evidence that early goal-directed visual exploration in 2-year-olds predicts emergence of metamemory (i.e., introspection on memory accuracy) one year later.
Two-year-olds’ visual exploration of response options during memory decisions predicts metamemory monitoring one year later
Nature Communications - Infants and toddlers respond to uncertain situations by seeking information. Here, the authors show that 2-year-olds’ information seeking indicated by visual...
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June 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM