The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

The human brain undergoes extensive and dynamic growth during the first years of life. The
UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project (BCP), one of the Lifespan Connectome Projects …

In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we
charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth …

The first year of life is punctuated by explosions of growth in motor and language abilities.
This is not a coincidence. The notion of developmental cascades provides a conceptual …

Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of
language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and …

Pretend play has been claimed to be crucial to children's healthy development. Here we
examine evidence for this position versus 2 alternatives: Pretend play is 1 of many routes to …

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of
the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian …

Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello
argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster …

Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of
Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words …

The precise nature and etiopathogenesis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) continues
to elude researchers and clinicians. Yet, increasing evidence from various strands of …