Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social

Find me at @ebonawitz.bsky.social . Things are winding down here for academic twitter and it's hopping over there! Ping me if you need an invite code!

Now out in @Behavsci_MDPI: "Young Children’s Directed Question Asking in Preschool Classrooms" 🤔❔🙋 doi.org/10.3390/bs1409… Even in less structured settings like free play, children are strategic in their question-asking behavior... (1/3)

Now out in Cognition! ➰"Ambivalence by Design: A Computational Account of Loopholes"➰ by Qian, Bridgers, Parece, @MayaTaliaferro, and me bit.ly/cognitionLooph…

Oh hey, our new paper is out! Led by Katarina Begus, we explored 16m olds reasoning. Infant's theta response discerned between predicted confounded & uncon events, suggesting that infants can strategically direct attention to events that are likely to reveal informative evidence.

16-month-old infants showed heightened theta oscillations for informative versus uninformative causal evidence. This relationship was more pronounced in infants who subsequently made correct predictions based on this information. @E_Bonawitz nature.com/articles/s4427…

Hey everyone! I'm excited to share that I'll be giving a talk on young children's ability to reason about multiple, mutually exclusive object identities at #SPP2024! Come check out our new work with @levels_of! 🗓️ Saturday, June 22 🕒 3:30 PM 📍 North Ballroom, Session 6A

Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ) @DARPA abstracts are due June 25th at noon. 2 pages. Submit your best ideas! Info and abstract template: sam.gov/opp/78b028e5fc… (The formatting of the template, not the word doc, matters) Submit! baa.darpa.mil/Public/Securit…

I'm sad I can't be at #SPP2024 this year, I have a dog on my feet and it won't let me. But, I'm happy for those who are going. If you're there, check out presentations by Yichen Li @Yichen74893764 and Peng Qian!

If you’re at #SPP2024, I’m presenting work on preschoolers’ possibility reasoning using a novel task: do they know possible from necessary?! Saturday 3:30pm, 6A w/co-authors Luisa Andreuccioli, Katarina Begus, @E_Bonawitz , Stephanie Denison, and @CarenMWalker Come hang out!

For those attending #SPP2024, come check out Igor Bascandziev present some of our new findings on the roles for error detection in children's theory revision. (Friday 11AM, Session 3b), w/ co-authors @adani.bsky.social @CarenMWalker & myself.

now officially out in Cognitive Science! "Teaching Without Thinking: Negative Evaluations of Rote Pedagogy" (by Bass @LonnieMBass, Espinoza @cristian_e, Bonawitz @E_Bonawitz, and me) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

commentary out now in BBS (with Sophie Bridgers): "Genies, lawyers, and smart-asses: Extending proxy failures to intentional misunderstandings" (a response to John et al.'s recent fun piece on "proxy failures") free pre-print here: tomerullman.org/papers/genieBB…

🎉We're thrilled to announce that the invited speakers for BCCCD25 are: @antoniahamilton, @E_Bonawitz, and @pyoudeyer! We are looking forward to receiving your submissions in September: bcccd.org #BCCCD25 #BCCCD #CognitiveScience

And I am thrilled to participate to BCCCD25 to give a talk (on curiosity in development, AI and education) next to @E_Bonawitz and @antoniahamilton, thanks a lot for the invitation @cogdevceu 🙏

Excited to share our new paper (& model!) advocating for combining adult research w/ comp models AND developmental perspectives to examine complex interactions b/w congruency & episodic memory! @CarlaKeyanna special thanks! @E_Bonawitz link.springer.com/article/10.375…

CDS Attendees: Check out talks and posters coming from/collaborating with Bonawitz CoCoDev lab @ Harvard Ed! #CDS2024

Thanks @RomanFeiman for taking us on a fascinating tour to one of the most foundational questions in cognitive science: "What is a thought?" 🤔💭 Roman's work shows how linguists' formal theories of meaning can serve as computational theories of thought.

you can read more in the links, but briefly -- research topic is in common-sense, particularly theory-of-mind & pragmatics. While not strictly required, I have an interest in how we reason about ‘scripted’ behaviors - how/when we perceive *others* as being “on automatic"

I'd like to hire a post-doc, to start this summer or fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_postdo… Official posting: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13532

Great opportunity! Tomer is awesome.

Now in “Mind, Brain & Education” - Thanks @GaabLab @_CPollack @E_Bonawitz @Joanna22c & whole team for this great overview piece for @hgse & the field of edu neuroscience as a whole . @IMBESoc @WileyGlobal @WileyPsychology