Velisar

I’m happy to finally report the data from the main project of my phd. Over 8 conditions of 32 8mo-old infants, we tested the hypothesis that human cognition starts altercentric instead of egocentric (Southgate, 2013; 2020) psyarxiv.com/7vcmp/ 1/17

@fchollet [maybe his account has been hacked?]

@fchollet ...the very 'only core knowledge' that the ARC challenge people talk about was discovered with the Violation-of-Expectation paradigm in infants, basically perceptually familiar events that violate their prior expectations of how the world should function.

As a young child, nothing can shock you, because you have no sense of the likelihood distribution of anything

Our direct test of infant altercentrism hypothesis is published now, open access, in Proceedings B Bio: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… We explained what we did in this thread, and the new data collected since did not change our partial results: twitter.com/VelisarM/statu…

I invite applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position, on a project titled “The role of infants’ emerging self-perspective in memory development”, at @DEVOMINDLab @CopenhagenPsych Job ad: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige… for more info, get in touch with me :) spread the word!

Finally, we are running the First and Last conditions with 12mo-olds atm. They anticipate correctly in the Last (TB-like) condition. Not final, but 1y olds show a smaller effect in the First condition, suggesting a developmental progression out of the initial altercentrism. /end

This is somehow in line with the altercentrism hypothesis (far from a result we predicted though): tracking the agent’s attention, rather than just gazing at the object, drives infants’ expectations. 16/17

I’m happy to finally report the data from the main project of my phd. Over 8 conditions of 32 8mo-old infants, we tested the hypothesis that human cognition starts altercentric instead of egocentric (Southgate, 2013; 2020) psyarxiv.com/7vcmp/ 1/17