web01.fireside.fm Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:20:25 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The It's Innate! Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Nativism” https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/tags/nativism Mon, 23 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 27: A conversation with a luminary #4: Nora Newcombe https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/27 1e86442d-2456-432d-8551-c157a1fdf9e1 Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400 Deon Benton & Jenny Wang full Deon Benton & Jenny Wang 1:39:57 no In this "A conversation with a luminary" episode, we chat with the inimitable and rewnowned Dr. Nora Newcombe. Specifically, we talk about her journey in science, her views on Jerome "Jerry" Kagan as a mentor and what it was like working with him, her work and thoughts on cognitive maps, her work on the "geometric module", as well as her thoughts on the nativism empricism debate, among other things. We enjoyed recording this episode, and we hope you enjoy listening to it! Links Newcombe, N. S. (2024). Learning to live in the spatial world: Experience-expectant and experience-dependent input. Developmental Review, 74, 101166. Link (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273229724000509?casa_token=vGj3Qf7wWf0AAAAA:86geiGKEMhvvJlwRjJtdFj0lB_MXbOREO3XHlElv2NL_0ikBy1D2JxDf-b3rNeblqjuK68sl) Special Guest: Nora Newcombe. cogntiive development, spatial learning, spatial cognition, nativism, empiricism In this "A conversation with a luminary" episode, we chat with the inimitable and rewnowned Dr. Nora Newcombe. Specifically, we talk about her journey in science, her views on Jerome "Jerry" Kagan as a mentor and what it was like working with him, her work and thoughts on cognitive maps, her work on the "geometric module", as well as her thoughts on the nativism empricism debate, among other things. We enjoyed recording this episode, and we hope you enjoy listening to it!

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Newcombe, N. S. (2024). Learning to live in the spatial world: Experience-expectant and experience-dependent input. Developmental Review, 74, 101166.
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Special Guest: Nora Newcombe.

]]> In this "A conversation with a luminary" episode, we chat with the inimitable and rewnowned Dr. Nora Newcombe. Specifically, we talk about her journey in science, her views on Jerome "Jerry" Kagan as a mentor and what it was like working with him, her work and thoughts on cognitive maps, her work on the "geometric module", as well as her thoughts on the nativism empricism debate, among other things. We enjoyed recording this episode, and we hope you enjoy listening to it!

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Newcombe, N. S. (2024). Learning to live in the spatial world: Experience-expectant and experience-dependent input. Developmental Review, 74, 101166.
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Special Guest: Nora Newcombe.

]]> Episode 24: People and objects are different, and infants innately know this. Or do they? https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/24 6bc53802-e125-4d4e-8b4d-14f53ccdbb85 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0500 Deon Benton & Jenny Wang full Deon Benton & Jenny Wang 1:41:01 no Deon and Jenny open this episode, which is a return their classic one-on-one format, by discussing the academic job market, imposter syndrome, and careful science. Following this brief discussion, Jenny and Deon discuss Deon's recent paper titled, "An associative-learning account of how infants learn about causal action in animates and inanimates: A critical reexamination of four classic studies." Deon talks about the motivation for writing this proposal as well as what his account is of how infants might begin to learn about how animates and inanimates differ from one another in terms of their causal abilities. It will come as no surprise that Deon thinks that this knowledge is acquired, and that Jenny is a bit skeptical (although, as you'lll hear, there are signs that she may see the merit in Deon's argument). At a broad level, this episode has it all — we cover philosophy, computational modeling, mechanisms, and developmental science! Links Benton, D. T. (2024). An associative-learning account of how infants learn about causal action in animates and inanimates: A critical reexamination of four classic studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Link (https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-27513-001) associative learning, empiricism, nativism, mechanism, computational modeling Deon and Jenny open this episode, which is a return their classic one-on-one format, by discussing the academic job market, imposter syndrome, and careful science. Following this brief discussion, Jenny and Deon discuss Deon's recent paper titled, "An associative-learning account of how infants learn about causal action in animates and inanimates: A critical reexamination of four classic studies." Deon talks about the motivation for writing this proposal as well as what his account is of how infants might begin to learn about how animates and inanimates differ from one another in terms of their causal abilities. It will come as no surprise that Deon thinks that this knowledge is acquired, and that Jenny is a bit skeptical (although, as you'lll hear, there are signs that she may see the merit in Deon's argument). At a broad level, this episode has it all — we cover philosophy, computational modeling, mechanisms, and developmental science!

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Benton, D. T. (2024). An associative-learning account of how infants learn about causal action in animates and inanimates: A critical reexamination of four classic studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Link

]]> Deon and Jenny open this episode, which is a return their classic one-on-one format, by discussing the academic job market, imposter syndrome, and careful science. Following this brief discussion, Jenny and Deon discuss Deon's recent paper titled, "An associative-learning account of how infants learn about causal action in animates and inanimates: A critical reexamination of four classic studies." Deon talks about the motivation for writing this proposal as well as what his account is of how infants might begin to learn about how animates and inanimates differ from one another in terms of their causal abilities. It will come as no surprise that Deon thinks that this knowledge is acquired, and that Jenny is a bit skeptical (although, as you'lll hear, there are signs that she may see the merit in Deon's argument). At a broad level, this episode has it all — we cover philosophy, computational modeling, mechanisms, and developmental science!

Links

Benton, D. T. (2024). An associative-learning account of how infants learn about causal action in animates and inanimates: A critical reexamination of four classic studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Link

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