Leher Singh

New Opinion in TiCS on what babies "know"! Some argue for innate concepts of objects, number, and morality. I offer an alternative perspective: attentional biases + perceptual prediction. No less impressive, but importantly different! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

I grew up as a Developmental Psychologist in a era of almost unbridled Nativism. To see so many of its foundations crumble and being exposed for lack of rigour is fascinating to witness

Excited about tomorrow's community conversation about power and privilege in Psychology departments with a focus on practical strategies for inclusion and equity with Walter P. Parrish III, Ph.D., Sakshi Ghai, Flavio Azevedo, and Dr. Daudi van Veen! member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

Join us on October 7 for a community conversation organized by APS on the expression and impact of power and privilege in academic departments for early-career scholars.

How do young children predict what comes next in speech? Our study of bilingual Mandarin-English and monolingual English-learning children in Singapore highlights how language experience shapes real-time processing—and why diverse samples matter. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to be editing a Developmental Science special issue on Culture, Context, and Brain Development with Heather Bortfeld, Laura Katus, and Bruce Rawlings. Seeking papers from diverse contexts using novel approaches! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Please share!

Excited to be a part of this conversation by APS on power and privilege in Psychology depts. The event is aimed at early career scholars.

Fun new collab coming out in TICS (w/ Haley Weaver & Sudha Arunachalam) digging into the assumptions underlying the use of eye-gaze methods to study vocabulary development. Working on this paper really got us thinking - we hope it does the same for our readers! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This was one of the most enjoyable collabs I've had. Grateful for any and all feedback.

Excited to join this wonderful panel of editors for an APA webinar on aspiring to a more global psychological science.

Appreciate the invitation from APS to write about cultural belonging in academic departments.

Sharing a new article aimed at students and early career scholars on how to do a good peer review in developmental psychology. We offer a framework for a good peer review and suggestions on how to navigate challenges, including AI. The article is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What can infant research tell us (and not tell us) about human universals? Happy to share a new paper in Child Development Perspectives on this question. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

#BUCLD50 Symposium: “Innateness is not a dirty word: Reframing the origins of language development”, by Shanley Allen, Marisa Casillas, Alejandrina Cristia, Michael C. Frank, Caroline Rowland, Leher Singh, and Paul Bloom! Learn more at: www.bu.edu/bucld/ #Innateness #LLM #LanguageDevelopment

Curious / terrified about peer review? We are here to help! Join @mariamaly.bsky.social and I October 30th!

@psychscience.bsky.social Submission site for Barcelona 2026 opens Oct. 30th!!! Join us in Spain for the first APS to be held outside the U.S. Many new ways to interact and to share psychological research being done around the world. www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

It was a privilege to collaborate on this significant undertaking on open science in the developing world, under the leadership of Hu Chuan-Peng. The paper is now out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing". srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) What is LEVANTE? 🧵

Please join @shaunacooper.bsky.social @lehersingh.bsky.social S. Arunachalam, V. Raval & me this Wednesday!

Delighted that Sakshi Ghai's efforts in leading this manifesto are recognised by @improvingpsych.org! @sakshighai.bsky.social @lehersingh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How can developmental science journals promote equity, transparency, and shared responsibility? Join us August 13, 2pm ET, for “Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation” tinyurl.com/DevEditors @lehersingh.bsky.social ‪@mattgoldrick.bsky.social

Check out this awesome new paper about #OpenScience in developing countries! Paper is forthcoming at AMPPS- very proud that we can promote this work. Congrats to the large and international authorship team, and esp @hcp4715.bsky.social for leading the charge. @psychscience.bsky.social

Very sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...

Developmental Science is looking for new Associate Editors. Details are at lnkd.in/eDggC6WQ Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Look forward to all of your wonderful contributions!

Happy to share a new article analyzing effects of family SES on 5- to 12-month old infant word recognition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line: "The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws" Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.

Call for Manuscript Proposals for a Special Issue in Current Directions in Psychological Science: #ClimateChange in Psychological Science Submission Deadline: April 15

AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind? In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

FYI for anyone laid off. Might be similar resources for people outside of Maryland as well - worth a look

Amazing *free* online course on conducting child language research in understudied communities: Expanding Research in Language Development (WERLD). By the incredible Marisa Casillas with a line up of fabulous guest lecturers. chatterlab.uchicago.edu/werld2025/

When I went off to @bostoncollege.bsky.social, my mandate from my mom was pretty simple: do well academically, find a job, and be done in 3 years. My dad had just jumped the family ship and my sister would be going off to college in my 4th year. I had enough college credits to grad in 3. 1/

Happy to share the product of a very enjoyable collaboration, led by Sakshi Ghai, on bridging inclusivity and open science principles and practices: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Nominate yourself or a colleague to think about ways to promote ethical research: @nationalacademies.org survey.alchemer.com/s3/8129192/O...

ManyBabies Demographics paper named an Editor’s Choice article! Congrats @lehersingh.bsky.social and team!!

I really enjoyed serving in this role (DEI Assoc Editor) at Developmental Science. Lots of opportunities to contribute to much needed diversification in developmental research. Happy to answer any questions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Excited to share a new paper offering guidance for demographic reporting for authors, editors, and reviewers in developmental research. An enjoyable collaboration with the MB Demographics group! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new Special Issue on developmental research that centers the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Feel free to reach out with any questions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Are you passionate about nurturing young minds in #InfantResearch? Volunteer as a mentor for the ICIS Founding Generation Summer Fellowship Program! Be a guiding light for the next generation of infant researchers. Sign up now. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #infantstudies

Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks. Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added! go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi #DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky

Sharing my new publication in Developmental Psychology with Dana Basnight-Brown, Bobby Cheon, Reiko Mazuka, Rowena Garcia, and Melanie Killen issuing a call for contextualism in developmental science. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Publication: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Join us on October 23 for the upcoming One World Seminar “Critical Approaches to Human Cognition” presented by Richard Prather from University of Maryland, USA. Register for free today! https://buff.ly/3NcYHvL @pratherlab.bsky.social

Excited to share our recently published Developmental Science Special Issue focused on globalizing developmental research. t.co/d7SRzjlr3c. A wonderful series of impactful articles! Grateful to all the authors for a contributing their work and to Heather Bortfeld for co-editing.

The Special Issue on infant development in Latin America at IBAD is now published sciencedirect.com/special-issu...! It was wonderful to co-edit this with @JuliaHermida1 , Marigen Narea, and Alex Cristia. Articles cover stress regulation, language development, motor development, media use.

Introducing the Missing Majority dashboard, an automatically updating resource that tracks the global representation of behavioral science first authors over time. remi-theriault.com/dashboards/m... Wanna know how your favorite journal performs? Check it out 😁 Let us know what you think!

The new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science has just launched with its first 50 articles. Really impressed at the great crew they got to write these (and also me). More to come. oecs.mit.edu/open-encyclo...