Developmental psychologist and psycholinguist rolled into one, with generous servings of mom of two added on.https://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3ml3zhzgq4k27New paper from @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social: Can parents direct infants' attention using language in free-play interactions? The answer is a resounding no - infants just as likely to switch attention to objects their parent is or is not talking about during free play http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.7008905 May 2026 10:53 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3zhzgq4k27https://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3mjodzqylis23Come and meet the WortSchatzInsel team at #ScienceGoesCity in Göttingen on Sunday! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Apr 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjodzqylis23https://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3mivn6vfzis2tTesting babies in the IIT Campus in Chennai? Be prepared for babies of all sorts to hang around the lab.07 Apr 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivn6vfzis2thttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3milxxwtn4c2hCall for a PhD position in Cognitively inspired natural language processing with Lisa Beinborn and me. Part of the new SPP "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology” (LaSTing). https://huds.uni-goettingen.de/assets/Call_Kindlm.pdf03 Apr 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3milxxwtn4c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3mibdgtrym22iCome join us in Göttingen if you're curious about curiosity. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Mar 2026 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibdgtrym22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3mhaqbcebjk2lMB7 (Curiosity in early development) design meeting is tomorrow (18.3.26) at 9AM and 5PM CET. We will introduce our research question, paradigms currently being considered and our plan to invite proposals for further design suggestions. Sign up here manybabies.org/MB7/ or join the MB7-design Slack https://manybabies.org/MB7/17 Mar 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhaqbcebjk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3mga34z2ync2kSo very true - just had someone ask me to send them the stimuli from an experiment we ran 15 years ago. Not only did it send me down memory lane looking for the stimuli and what my lab was doing 15 years ago, but just the thrill that someone is interested in what I did 15 years ago. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Mar 2026 10:27 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3mga34z2ync2khttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3mftadr5jws2yNew @sfb1528.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social publication. We show that mothers are worthy of the pedagogical assumption: they preferentially sample information that fills their child's knowledge gaps and children learn best from maternal sampling: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691826002970#ac000527 Feb 2026 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftadr5jws2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3menkzo3dls2h2 new papers: Madhavan et al study the dynamics of episodes of joint attention in caregiver-infant interactions. We find that infants initiate more episodes of joint attention and more often to familiar objects. Mothers follow infants' attention to label familiar objects more https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.25085212 Feb 2026 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3menkzo3dls2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3md3es4gftc2zOne more week to apply for the PhD position on curiosity in early development (B4) in my group! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jan 2026 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3md3es4gftc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3m6mekmc7vs2sCurious about curiosity? Join us in Göttingen in our RTG Curiosity funded by @dfg.de [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Nov 2025 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6mekmc7vs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3m6hhbsium22lWe are advertising **11 new PhD positions** in the second cohort of our RTG on Curiosity (details on all 11 positions here: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+positions/681638.html). One of these positions is in my group looking at the role of curiosity in early word learning (https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html?filters={%22vollzeit%22:[],%22befristet%22:[],%22gruppe%22:[],%22besoldGrp%22:[]}&details=76184)25 Nov 2025 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6hhbsium22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3llelbugguk2hSo much fun talking to Svilen about the work going on in our lab. Great questions and a really engaging conversation. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Mar 2025 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3llelbugguk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nivimani.bsky.social/post/3l2omi7w5xx2rOur graduate school on Curiosity officially started this month and our Theory kick-off is all set to get us inspired, thinking and talking to one another. While the in-person events are for graduate school members only, you can sign up for the lectures online here: https://uni-goettingen.de/de/vorschau_e733152c1a49aab7ca68e95185de209d/690071.html27 Aug 2024 06:47 +0000at://did:plc:6bfya7c6viyticr4b4e2d5ia/app.bsky.feed.post/3l2omi7w5xx2r