Jeff Farrar
@jfarrarlcd
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Director of Language & Cognitive Development Lab at UF. We examine the link between language & cognitve development using behavioral and neural measures.
Florida, USA
Joined September 2017
Congratulations to Katie Erhardt who defended her dissertation on monday
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Congratulations to Arjun Iyer who successfully defended his dissertation today!
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Monday morning's reason for apologising during a work call: this duck walked into my kitchen. I do not own a duck.
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@GedeonDeak Unlike North American children, Chinese preschool children’s perspective-taking in gift giving was not enhanced by first choosing a desired item for themselves. Also, they chose more other-preferred consumable than recreational gifts.
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today.duke.edu
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Cats Don't Fetch, But Know Their Names As Well As Dogs, Researchers Say https://t.co/W3QBJav4O6 via @nprscience
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New paper by @FrancisMollica and myself: how much information do kids have to remember in learning a language?
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New research from UC Berkeley suggests that language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition
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Congratulations to Jaxenne Daniels @JaxDanielsUF who defended her master's thesis at the University of Florida conducted in the lcd lab.
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How emotions have changed through history, how they differ across cultures, and how words for emotions can change how we feel. A wonderful talk. https://t.co/qSIYm64c6r via @TEDTalks
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The words we use to describe our emotions affect how we feel, says historian Tiffany Watt Smith, and they've often changed (sometimes very dramatically) in response to new cultural expectations and...
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Chimpanzees react faster to cooperate than make selfish choices: study | U-M LSA Department of Psychology
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Research by Alexandra Rosati suggests that chimpanzees often make decisions faster that benefit others than themselves: “Ultimately, our results show that chimpanzee cooperation involves several...
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Machines that learn language more like kids do: https://t.co/553pUFZADm
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Are you a prospective graduate student interested in Developmental Psychology? Check out our developmental graduate program and available labs:
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Congrats Yao you will be great.
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Well, even if it doesn't improve her executive control, it'll help her with ToM, so I'll keep speaking Russian to baby Lana: "bilinguals' metalinguistic performance at time1 was the sole predictor of false belief at time2"
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This longitudinal study examines the predictors of false-belief reasoning in bilingual and monolingual preschoolers. For bilinguals, only time 1 metalinguistic awareness predicted time 2 false-beli...
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.@natalie_ebner and the @EbnerLab are researching the vulnerability of older adults to phishing. Read 📰:
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Can you lose your native language? https://t.co/uNjTXct1c7 via @BBC_Future
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more on color words from Zaslavsky, Kemp, Tishby & Regier: Color naming reflects both perceptual structure and communicative need https://t.co/6L6oTBAoqm
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Gibson et al. (2017) argued that color naming is shaped by patterns of communicative need. In support of this claim, they showed that color naming systems across languages support more precise...
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What's Going On In Your Child's Brain When You Read Them A Story? https://t.co/kmfl1i4wSB via @nprscience
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Arjun Iyer of our lab was awarded a Goldman Dissertation Fellowship for his research on Language, Theory of Mind, and Moral Development. Congratulations! @aiyer1217
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