Monthly Archives: November 2024

surprise vs. confirmation? new findings presented at psychonomics

Dr. Read gave a talk at this year’s Psychonomics conference in New York City, highlighting our lab’s recent findings from a two year project on how well children can remember new names for animals after having correctly or incorrectly predicted them. The talk was summarized for us in the Saturday highlights from the conference (below) and a more detailed paper will be coming out next year describing the work.