Cognitive Development Center at CEU

Save the date 🔹 5-7 January 2023 🔹 In 2023 we hope to see everyone in person in Budapest 🤞🤞 H. Clark Barrett form UCLA Anne Christophe École normale supérieure - PSL Kang Lee University of Toronto will be our invited speakers. Some new things this year: 👉 earlier paper submission deadline (31 July) 👉 extended review process for paper submissions 👉 half-day pre-conference workshops. Check out the conference website here: https://bcccd.org/welcome.htm Program chairs this year are Eszter Körtvélyesi and Rachel Dudley. Stay tuned, more info coming soon!

Happy to announce a new paper by our lab members. Denis Tatone Gergely Csibra Mikołaj Hernik explore the links between social cognition and object representation: 12-month-olds encode objects they saw being given in more detail than those they saw being taken.

Facilitation of object encoding in infants by the observation of giving - Scientific Reports We propose that humans are prepared to interpret giving as a diagnostic cue of reciprocal–exchange relations from infancy. A prediction following from this hypothesis is that infants will represent the identity of an object they see being given, because this information is critical for evaluating ...