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) 1/17

Our direct test of infant altercentrism hypothesis is published now, open access, in Proceedings B Bio: We explained what we did in this thread, and the new data collected since did not change our partial results:

RT @dora_kampis: I invite applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position, on a project titled “The role of infants’ emerging self-perspec…

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

#BCCCD22 used to be the nicest irl conference, but it's also the easiest to navigate online. Here's a video describing our latest research: With @SketchySk , @_emy & @vhsouthgate; booth a-0205. I'll be live today from 20:30 CET