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Author: Julia Venditti

Timing is everything:  Our new paper shows that contingency enables learning from an artificial agent

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Julia Venditti
We have long proposed that infants figure out who and what to learn from by tuning into people and behaviors that are contingently responsive to infants’ own actions (in this case, babbling). This w... Read More

The BABY Lab is open again!

Posted on June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 by Julia Venditti
We are happy to announce that the BABY Lab is now inviting families back into our playroom! When Cornell’s campus closed in March of 2020, we found new ways to ask questions about the developmen... Read More

Latest Lab News

  • Your Brain on Babies: How Babies Turn You Into a Danger Detector
    Feb 21, 2025
  • Babbling elicits learnable language from caregivers
    Feb 6, 2025
  • Timing is everything:  Our new paper shows that contingency enables learning from an artificial agent
    Aug 8, 2024
  • Our summer Nexus Scholar students featured in College of Arts and Sciences article
    Aug 7, 2024
  • Keeping the (proto)conversation going: Our new vocal turn-taking papers highlight the benefits of responding to babbling. 
    Aug 6, 2024

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