Lisa S. Scott 🧠

At the @bcdlab we have spent a good chunk of the last few years working on innovating the methods of infant developmental science. Below is a thread of methods papers with contributing authors from our lab! /1

Handwriting leads to widespread brain connectivity - typing does not.

(1/2) Cychosz, Villanueva et al. (2025): In 2 bilingual communities, infants heard majority societal language from children > adults, and in child‐directed > adult-directed speech, opposite pattern for minoritized language. @NorthwesternCSD #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.7…

Human attention-guided visual perception is governed by rhythmic oscillations and aperiodic timescales doi.org/10.1371/journa… #neuroscience

Interested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The @bcdlab is expecting to hire a postdoc and a lab coordinator/tech in the coming months! Send me an email if interested and I’ll make sure to send you the job postings once open!

Available Now: The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub · Access and explore ABCD and HBCD Study data with robust tools, documentation, and workflows · Learn more & apply for data access: nbdc-datahub.org @theabcdstudy

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that Lisa DeBruine and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/introd…

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science go.nature.com/44hKo29

I am heartbroken and horrified by the tragic loss of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were taken from us in an act of violence. Melissa was a good friend and we started in politics at the same time and were always there for each other. She was a true public…

Cutting-edge science in infancy research is just a click away! Join us June 19 2025 for the next #ICISWebinar: “Beyond Who’s Speaking When: Machine Learning Tools to Extract Rich Multi-Dimensional Features from Home Audio Recordings” infantstudies.org/icis-online-ev… #InfantResearch

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We are excited to invite you to our second Shades of Science virtual panel event on June 25th 3-4 pm BST featuring @DrSWijeakumar Prof @leher_singh and Dr @Dolapoadegboye3. Register your place using the QR code in the flyer!#DiversityInScience

Me preparing for the Friday afternoon email drop:

Current scene at UF:

🚨New review out! With @georgebuzzell, we discuss the EEG time-frequency dynamics underlying the emergence and development of cognitive control in infancy and childhood🧠 @FluxSociety @FIT_NGIn @AcademicEEG sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #EEG #DevelopmentalNeuroscience

The words of health care providers during prenatal care visits can influence how parents see their children medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-w… via @medical_xpress