web01.fireside.fm Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:21:30 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The It's Innate! Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Action Perception” https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/tags/action%20perception Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400 Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge! en-us episodic A podcast by two developmental cognitive scientists Deon Benton & Jenny Wang Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge! no Deon Benton & Jenny Wang theitsinnatepodcast@gmail.com Episode 28: Seeing (can help you infer what someone else) is believing (with Sholei Croom) https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/28 2da03cb9-578a-4ad0-94d0-7007ee6d4794 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400 Deon Benton & Jenny Wang full Deon Benton & Jenny Wang 1:26:56 no We were delighted to be joined by Sholei Croom, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins working with Chaz Firestone. We open this episode, as always, by chatting about Sholei's journey in science. We then turn to their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions" by Croom, Zhou, and Firestone (2023). This paper explores whether third-party observers can infer what other people are trying to learn simply by observing their actions. As we talk about in the episode, this project highlights an underexplored aspect of social perception: human learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions. Special Guest: Sholei Croom. action perception, social cognition, social psychology We were delighted to be joined by Sholei Croom, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins working with Chaz Firestone. We open this episode, as always, by chatting about Sholei's journey in science. We then turn to their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions" by Croom, Zhou, and Firestone (2023). This paper explores whether third-party observers can infer what other people are trying to learn simply by observing their actions. As we talk about in the episode, this project highlights an underexplored aspect of social perception: human learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.

Special Guest: Sholei Croom.

]]> We were delighted to be joined by Sholei Croom, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins working with Chaz Firestone. We open this episode, as always, by chatting about Sholei's journey in science. We then turn to their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions" by Croom, Zhou, and Firestone (2023). This paper explores whether third-party observers can infer what other people are trying to learn simply by observing their actions. As we talk about in the episode, this project highlights an underexplored aspect of social perception: human learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.

Special Guest: Sholei Croom.

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