Martin Zettersten
@m_zettersten
Assistant Professor @UCSanDiego Cognitive Science language development | cognitive development | learning (he/his)
Excited that our *registered report* on infants’ ability to link familiar words to both typical and atypical exemplars is now out at Child Development! w/ fantastic co-lead Haley Weaver and steady guidance from @jenny_saffran. srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd… (1/8)
📢 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!
A fascinating podcast with Sheina Lew-Levy and Dorsa Amir about childhood across cultures, very insightful ideas about how contemporary Western parents could learn from forager childhoods, especially the importance of peer culture (read the Opies!). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/var…
What Paradigms Can Webcam Eye-Tracking Be Used For? Attempted Replications of Five Cognitive Science Experiments doi.org/10.1525/collab…
#Preprint DROP. Using looking while listening? This will interest you!! We compared the psychometric properties of 11 LWL outcome measures + #spoileralert FOUND DISTINCT PROPERTIES FOR DISTRACTOR VS TARGET INITIAL TRIALS. Need I say more? 👉osf.io/preprints/psya…
The DISC Lab is currently recruiting for our active studies! We are looking for children ages 4-6 and 10-12 to participate! Interested? Fill out our form linked below! disclab.psych.wisc.edu/participate-in…
Join the UK Curiosity Network – Inaugural Workshop! 📅 25 November 2025 | 📍 Lancaster University, UK This event will bring together scholars from across disciplines interested in the study of curiosity. 👉 Read more & register: curiosity-battery.co.uk/uk-curiosity-n…
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!
We're organizing a shared task to develop a multilingual physical commonsense reasoning evaluation dataset! Details on how to submit are at: sigtyp.github.io/st2025-mrl.html
As part of the workshop, we are also organizing a shared task to develop a collaborative physical commonsense reasoning evaluation dataset. See the shared task page for more information: sigtyp.github.io/st2025-mrl.html.
New paper led by PhD student, @arushi_malik! Stability of individual differences in social and nonsocial visual attention from newborn to 14 months #OpenAccess with wonderful team, including @tiffany6390, @ZengGuangyu, @semaylott, @danielmessinger, et al. doi.org/10.1002/dev.70…
BabyLMs first constructions: new study on usage-based language acquisition in LMs w/ @LAWeissweiler, @coryshain. Simple interventions show that LMs trained on cognitively plausible data acquire diverse constructions (cxns) @babyLMchallenge 🧵
Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in @NatureHumBehav, led by the great Juliana Trach! "Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations" nature.com/articles/s4156…
New lab preprint (just presented at a VSS talk) from Zekun Sun: "Dissociating low-level visual features from high-level event structure in action segmentation" osf.io/preprints/psya…
What motivates people to take action and share info about climate change? We tested 17 psychological interventions in a tournament—Discover the winners in our new paper! Out now in @PNASNews w/ @falklab, @MichaelEMann, & team. Thread ⤵️ 1/9 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
SIX YEARS after the initial blog post, this paper is finally published.. what a wild ride
1/7 In 2017, Hedge, Powell, and Sumner showed that robust cognitive tasks are unreliable, which calls into question the use of behavioral tasks for studying individual differences. In this blog post, I show that this conclusion is misguided (haines-lab.com/post/thinking-…)
As a psych undergrad in St. Petersburg 6 years ago, I never imagined I’d be starting my own cognitive science lab at one of the world’s best research environments, to pursue the questions I find most important and meaningful. I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a…
Why do scientists disagree? With the amazing Justin Sulik, @NakWonRim, Elizabeth Pontikes, and @glupyan, we show in @NatureHumBehav how cognitive traits and dispositions align with persistent scientific divides, using article text, references, surveys, and the same cognitive…
🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @JohnsHopkins (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
Do you study behavior in one or more species? Then you could contribute data to the large-scale ManyManys 1 study on reversal learning across taxa! Join our open webinar series to learn how to get involved in Big Team Comparative Cognition! Register here: forms.gle/9VMgoXP4XmqUbv…