We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/ Please share widely! 1/4
Our review exploring the development of visual object recognition is officially out in Nature Reviews Psych! Here we draw on cognitive, computational, and neuroscience literatures to examine how humans develop robust object recognition abilities starting in infancy
GOOD MORNING BLUESKY! Very excited about this new paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120#PsychSci#DevPsy 🗣💬 INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14
Last but not least, we would like to thank @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social@manasimalik.bsky.social@hleemasson.bsky.social for their valuable input and help (and moral support <3)
We believe these results and methods are promising for future studies using encoding models and content-based fMRI movie analyses in children.
We investigated the representations of individual social features, and found evidence for early development of social interaction representations in the STS. In contrast, ToM responses showed continued development from age 3 to 7 yrs olds, consistent with Richardson et al result
Our results showed that the encoding model trained on these features, despite having only 5 minutes of training data, can significantly predict BOLD responses in children as young as three. This was true even when just using the visual or social features.
In this study, we combined dense labeling of movie features and voxel-wise encoding models to study social perception in children in a naturalistic context. (original fMRI data collected by Hillary Richardson, @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social and Colleagues, available on Open fMRI).
I am super excited to share our preprint "Early neural development of social perception: evidence from voxel-wise encoding in young children and adults" with Angira Shirahatti and @lisik.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/ps...
