Science, photography, cats. Vocal and social learning in birds and babies. Professor of developmental psychobiology at Cornell University.
Ithaca, NY
Joined December 2018
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n this paper we're going from birds to words! This exciting new work with @ElmlingerSteven represents a significant extension of the research on human and avian vocal learning in my lab.
1/12 Animals often communicate in phrases with sequential structure. Vocal learners, however, are often studied one note or syllable at a time. What are the origins of vocal sequences in animals that learn vocal communication? Find out in our new paper spanning birds+babies🧵
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Our new theory paper in @ActaPsych shows that babies change how we see the world! In our lab, we use virtual environments to study parenting. We are finding that babies actively reshape our perception in ways that help protect them. Read more at sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Power of babble: Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech in response to babies’ babbling and early speech, supporting language development, @CornellPsychDpt research finds. @CornellCAS @CurrentBiology @MikeHGoldstein @ElmlingerSteven news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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How do languages become learnable for young children? Read our paper out now in Current Biology “Immature vocalizations elicit simplified adult speech across multiple languages” to find out! 🧵 of our findings below: cell.com/current-biology/ful… 1/9
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.@hv_zhang @ElmlingerSteven @RachelAlbertLVC & @MikeHGoldstein (2024) found caregiver vocal (not multimodal) responses keep infants in vocal turn-taking. Multimodal flexibility in vocal turn-taking may emerge over development #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.12596
Had a great time at the @IEEE_ICDL conference in Austin! Great conversations, brainstorming, new collaborations, and of course BBQ. Thanks to @Chen_Yu_CY, @AnneWarlaumont and the organizing committee for putting together a terrific conference!
The latest from the lab, a two-paper set led by graduate student @hv_zhang, on the development of extended turn-taking organized by babbling. We keep finding ways that babbling in a social context is crucial for the development of communication!
Turn-taking is crucial for the development of communication, but why do infants engage in the game of vocal turn-taking? For answers, check out TWO of my papers out this month in Infancy twtr.to/x9V6W and Infant Behavior & Development twtr.to/FAkrY a 🧵
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Thank you so much @PrincetonUPress, being published by you was my first reward, and now this prize! Let's hope it helps to bring the fascinating world of animal acoustic communication to as many people as possible.
@InstUnivFr @Univ_St_Etienne @EPHE_PSL @NatGeo @acad_euro
Congratulations to @MathevonNicolas, author of The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate, winner of the 2024 R.R. Hawkins Award, the top prize among the @AmericanPublish #PROSEAwards!
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Can we get the benefits of #forestschools and #outdoorlearning in an urban inner city setting?
New paper for @JEnvPsych by @GemmaGoldenberg (@phd_and_three on insta), Molly Atkinson, @jan_dubiel, @NewhamLearning #eyfs osf.io/preprints/osf/84msw
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interested in developmental applications of machine learning/computer vision? @ProfSamWass @RochaSinead @trinh_nguyen9 @OOssmy @PrzemekTomalski and i are hosting a workshop at the @Infantstudies meeting in Glasgow and launching a new listserv: padlab.ucr.edu/posts/2024-03…
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1) Time to submit abstracts! The 2024 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication GRC is drawing closer. There's an awesome line-up of speakers working with birds, flies, monkeys, fish, snakes and more. Additional speakers will be selected from abstracts. Please spread the word!
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Our new paper is out today in @Nature , showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans
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I am recruiting a postdoc in computational / systems neuroscience to study mechanisms of social communication and cognition in budgerigars. We are cracking this system wide open. Please share. youtu.be/0r7-QvwqVjM
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Communication is complex, made all the more so by being fundamentally multimodal.
My new paper introduces a framework for using network methods to analyse communication as an interconnected system, using plains zebras as a case study.
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Excited to share our latest work in @nature. “Dopaminergic error signals retune to social feedback during courtship” tiny.cc/77lbvz Huge congrats to co-first author @AndreaRoeser, @jesseGlab, and the team! @ZuckermanBrain @Columbia @CornellNBB @Cornell
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Exciting preprint out from the lab by postdoc @MatthewZipple and @VogtCaleb looking at the role of environment in shaping patterns of behavior in genetically identical 🐁 (except the ones we used had black fur) see Matthew’s 🧵 below 👇
Excited to share my first data paper out of the Sheehan lab, studying alternative behavioral tactics in genetically identical, re-wilded lab mice!
How does male behavior look different under different social conditions?
Pre-print here, and thread below:
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ALT a male C57 laboratory mouse takes its first steps from a paper transfer bucket into an outdoor enclosure, capturing both the literal physical transfer as well as illustrating the broader goal of transitioning studies of lab mice to more realistic contexts.
Thanks to @CornellCIDS for funding Elanor's summer research with my lab! She is already off to a brilliant start. As a first-year undergraduate, she's already running a study!
Congratulations to our 2023 @CornellCIDS Summer Research Fellows, Elanor Chang and Yibing Lu! @MikeHGoldstein @s_kalantari @CornellCHE @CornellHCD @CornellPsychDpt
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Lab breakfast with the brilliant and inspiring @Chen_Yu_CY who is here to give the 2023 Eleanor J. Gibson and James J. Gibson Lecture in Experimental Psychology!
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Terrific and provocative new paper by @mark_s_blumberg and Karen Adolph! Bringing psychobiological data to human development often supports a constructivist theoretical perspective, in contrast to nativist theories that rely on looking time. "Something's gotta give" indeed.
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Good to see the robustness of our simplification effect across several contexts now!
Do infant vocalizations create learning opportunities for infants in childcare settings? New @Infantstudies paper out today with @CDVallotton demonstrates that childcare teachers simplify their speech when responding to infant vocalizations. 1/4
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