Susan Benear
@SusanLBenear
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postdoc @hartleylabnyu learning how kids learn | cat person who reads as a dog person | she/her
New York, NY
Joined September 2017
I am delighted that I’ll be joining Boston University’s dept. of psychological and brain sciences as an assistant professor in July 2025! I’ll be recruiting Ph.D. students and hiring a lab manager to start alongside me — see here for more info: https://t.co/xLG8p0cZaT 🧠👩🔬💻
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Obi did a great job presenting today!! 👏 Thanks to everyone who stopped by our poster - we got lots of helpful feedback and had some great conversations #CDS2024
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If you're at @cogdevsoc #CDS2024 in Pasadena, my former undergrad RA Obi Onwukanjo and I will be presenting our work on narrative event recall in young children on Saturday at 1:15 - Poster Session 3, poster #14! Come say hi! @NoraNewcombe @ingrids_brain
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🗣️📢The Hartley Lab at NYU is hiring a full-time lab manager to start this summer!!🧑💻 If you're looking for research experience before grad school and are interested in cognitive development and/or reinforcement learning, get more details and apply here:
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This study is one of the first to examine free recall of a factually verifiable, naturalistic experience in children, accounting for verbal skills, event cognition, and prompted memory. We suggest all of these cognitive factors relate to and support recall memory development. 7/7
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In a hierarchical analysis, we found that event cognition and verbal skills each accounted for significant variance in free recall level of detail for children, suggesting these abilities are crucial to successfully recalling memories as a verbal narrative without cues 🗣️🎙️📖 6/7
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Better performance on forced-choice recognition and temporal order memory questions about the show also predicted greater level of detail in recall for both adults and children (left), with age accounting for much of the variance in these relations for children (right). 5/7
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Adults are also more likely to recall scenes from the show in the correct temporal order than children (left), and a lesser proportion of their recall is composed of nonspecific summary statements than children's (right). 4/7
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In terms of the number of scenes and within-scene details recalled, we found dramatic performance differences between adults and children, as well as sharp performance increases with age in children. Compellingly, detail recall is at floor for many younger children. 3/7
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Adults and 4-7-year-old children watched an animated TV episode, and completed a number of tasks to assess their memory and event cognition (Benear et al., 2023, Dev Sci). Here we examined how these tasks predicted participants' ability to freely, verbally recall the episode. 2/7
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🚨 New pre-print on free recall of naturalistic events in young children! 🚨 🧒📺🐒 With co-authors Obinnaya Onwukanjo, @ingrids_brain, @NoraNewcombe. https://t.co/ovAEzjmpfQ 1/7
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Early childhood is a critical period for episodic memory development, with sharp behavioral improvements between ages 4 and 7 years. We asked children and adults to view a television episode, a...
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New preprint! Here, we examine how the specificity of learning computations adapts to the reward structure of the environment and influences memory across development. Read on for more details. 🧵⬇️ https://t.co/lRYnK4vbHQ
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In some contexts, abstract stimulus representations can effectively promote the pursuit of reward, whereas in others, more detailed representations are needed to guide choice. Here, using a novel...
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F32 Grant Reviewer 3 really said, "Strengths: 4, Weaknesses: 0, Fellowship Applicant Score? .....3"
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I’m recruiting PhD students to help launch the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at @UofNH Psych in Fall 2024! Check out our lab website at https://t.co/PsMimneBpa for more info, and feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in applying!
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my lab in New York City is accepting graduate students interested in computational cognitive science! i have lots of info on the website about how to apply but the deadline is Dec 1! we maximize fun while maximizing science!
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me: could this be two papers?? narrator: it would be no papers
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Asking the journal editorial office for an update on the status of your manuscript
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That's a wrap on #CCN2023 @CogCompNeuro!!! The Hartley lab had a great time in Oxford presenting our work and enjoying the local sights and snacks 📊🌼🫖
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Also stop by posters feat. work from our lab at @CogCompNeuro #CCN2023!! Thurs. 5-7PM: 1B.67 "Valence biases in reinforcement learning and autobiographical memory" @SusanLBenear 1B.69 "Controllability inferences promote adaptive action selection during adolescence" @NGoldway 1/3
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🎉 Many of you already know, but I'm thrilled to be joining @nyuniversity Psychology as an Assistant Professor this fall. I'll be looking for at least one postdoc, a lab manager, and I will be recruiting PhD students. Please retweet and stay tuned for details! (1/2)
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