Publications

• Bothe, R., Isbaner, S., Chen, X., Venkatesan, S., Kagan, I., Gail, A., & Mani, N. (2026). Little Scientists & Social Apprentices: Active Word Learning in Dynamic Social Contexts Using a Transparent Dyadic Interaction Platform. Social Development, 35(1), e70046. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.70046
• Bothe, R., Isbaner, S., Venkatesan, S., & Mani, N. (2026). Maternal information sampling targets children’s knowledge gaps. Acta Psychologica, 264, 106496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.106496

• Ackermann, L., Eiteljoerge, S. F. V., Wasmuth, C., Johnson, E. K., & Mani, N. (2025). Children’s interests guide word learning in referentially ambiguous situations (H5y2f_v1). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h5y2f_v1
• Altmann, E. C., de Boer, E. R., Eiteljoerge, S. F. V., Bazhydai, M., Meyer, M., Braithwaite, E. K., Bounia, P., Karadağ, D., Hunnius, S., & Westermann, G. (2025). The Early Childhood Curiosity Questionnaire: Development and psychometric properties in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany (Ut749_v1). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ut749_v1
• Blümel, M., Schneider, A. C., Neuhaus, V., Ehrlich, D. A., Graetz, M., Wibral, M., Makkeh, A., & Priesemann, V. (2025). Redundancy Maximization as a Principle of Associative Memory Learning (arXiv:2511.02584). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.02584
• Bothe, R., Isbaner, S., Venkatesan, S., & Mani, N. (2025). Mothers optimally sample information for their child and children learn best from maternal sampling (Fkzdr_v1). OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/fkzdr_v1
• de Boer, E. R., Altmann, E. C., Bazhydai, M., Westermann, G., Meyer, M., & Hunnius, S. (2025). The Infant and Toddler Curiosity Questionnaire: Dutch translation and validation (Tyfrp_v1). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tyfrp_v1
• Isbaner, S., Báez-Mendoza, R., Bothe, R., Eiteljoerge, S., Fischer, A., Gail, A., Gläscher, J., Lüschen, H., Möller, S., Penke, L., Priesemann, V., Ruß, J., Schacht, A., Schneider, F., Shahidi, N., Treue, S., Wibral, M., Ziereis, A., Fischer, J., … Mani, N. (2025). Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions. eLife, 14. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.106757.1
• Karakoç, E., Vogg, R., Marziliano, M., von Petersdorff, J., Ecker, A. S., Kappeler, P. M., & Fichtel, C. (2025). Foraging competence and its impact on social relationships in a socially tolerant wild primate. Animal Cognition, 28(1), 86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-025-02011-7
• Mahlke, A.-K., Venkatesan, S., & Mani, N. (2025). Parent Speech in Free Play Is Guided by Infant Attention, but Organised by Object Familiarity (D79xk_v1). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d79xk_v1
• Makkeh, A., Graetz, M., Schneider, A. C., Ehrlich, D. A., Priesemann, V., & Wibral, M. (2025). A general framework for interpretable neural learning based on local information-theoretic goal functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(10), e2408125122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408125122
• Mueller, F. B., Meier, J. F., Lueddecke, T., Vogg, R., Freixanet, R. L., Hassler, V., Bosshard, T., Karakoc, E., O’Hearn, W. J., Pereira, S. M., Sehner, S., Wierucka, K., Burkart, J., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Gail, A., Hobaiter, C., Ostner, J., Samuni, L., … Ecker, A. S. (2025). PriVi: Towards A General-Purpose Video Model For Primate Behavior In The Wild (arXiv:2511.09675). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.09675
• Schneider, A. C., Neuhaus, V., Ehrlich, D. A., Makkeh, A., Ecker, A. S., Priesemann, V., & Wibral, M. (2025). What should a neuron aim for? Designing local objective functions based on information theory (arXiv:2412.02482). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.02482
• Venkatesan, S., Madhavan, R., & Mani, N. (2025). Vocal Dynamics of Caregiver-Child Interactions During Shared Book Reading Sessions*. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) (pp. 1–6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL63968.2025.11204401
• Vogg, R., Lüddecke, T., Henrich, J., Dey, S., Nuske, M., Hassler, V., Murphy, D., Fischer, J., Ostner, J., Schülke, O., Kappeler, P. M., Fichtel, C., Gail, A., Treue, S., Scherberger, H., Wörgötter, F., & Ecker, A. S. (2025). Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild. Nature Methods, 22(6), 1154–1166. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02653-y

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