First up is Vanderbilt's own @deontbenton.bsky.social 🎉 Do infants have domain-specific learning mechanisms or domain-general learning processes? He thinks that's there's sufficient statistical regularities in the world that children can learn about the world with just simple learning mechanisms 2/

Kids may observe that things with hands eat and things with hands sleep. Can they infer that things that sleep likely eat? 2 and 3 year olds can learn this 2nd order correlation but only with a limited number of objects. 3/