Deon Benton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Human Development and Vanderbilt University. Deon studies how infants' learn about causality in the world as well as how they learn to distinguish between "good" guys and "bad" guys. In his spare time, Deon enjoys other intellectual pursuits like watching The Bachelor and Bachelorette, The Circle, and Married at First Sight.
Deon T. Benton has hosted 21 Episodes.
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Episode 21: A conversation with a luminary #1: Jenny Saffran
November 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins
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Episode 20: 3-month-olds are rational?! And can represent others' goals?! (with Brandon Woo)
November 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 40 mins
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Episode 19: Is Word Learning Innate or Learned? Recent Evidence Suggests It Might be the Latter (with Wai Keen Vong)
October 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 28 mins
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Episode 18: All about math (with Dana Miller-Cotto)
July 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 34 mins
diversity, education, mathematics
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Episode 17: Is It Language of Thoughts (LoTs) All the Way Down? (with Melissa Kibbe)
April 29th, 2023 | 1 hr 45 mins
infants, lot, representation
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Episode 16: Does alcohol make for worse mommies? (with Debrielle Jacques)
April 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 41 mins
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Episode 15: Foreshadowing forgiveness? (with Meltem Yucel)
April 5th, 2023 | 1 hr 35 mins
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Episode 14: The "moral principles" infants live by (with Fransisca Ting)
April 5th, 2023 | 1 hr 39 mins
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Episode 13: What is a developmental mechanism? What is developmental change?
March 31st, 2023 | 1 hr 51 mins
development, developmental change, developmental mechanism, mechanism
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Episode 11: Birds of a Feather... Share Saliva?
February 15th, 2023 | 1 hr 51 mins
cognitive development
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Episode 3: An Innate Fear of the Term Innate? (with David Rakison)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 32 mins
cognitive development, mechanism
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Episode 10: That's just a bunch of nonsense you jive turkey
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 15 mins
cognitive development, mechanism, statistical learning
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Episode 9: Nothin' but some long-hair, baldheaded faces (with Charisse Pickron)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 51 mins
cognitive development, face perception
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Episode 8: Don't judge a wagden by its category label (with Lisa Scott)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 45 mins
cognitive development, face perception
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Episode 7: Is poking the cat causal? (with Jonathan Kominsky)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 55 mins