Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action,
bringing out its essentially social dimension. He explores and synthesizes the different …

To interact and cooperate with humans in their daily-life activities, robots should exhibit
human-like “intelligence”. This skill will substantially emerge from the interconnection of all …

The performance of language is multimodal, not confined to speech. Review of monkey and
ape communication demonstrates greater flexibility in the use of hands and body than for …

There is abundant evidence for the 'video deficit': children under 2 years old learn better in
person than from video. We evaluated whether these findings applied to video chat by …

Parents frequently check up on what their children mean. They often do this by reformulating
with a side sequence or an embedded correction what they think their children said. These …

Background: The fundamental social disturbance of autism is characterized, in part, by
problems in the acquisition of joint attention skills in the first years of life, followed by …

The executive dysfunction hypothesis of autism has received support from most studies of
older people with autism; however, studies of young children have produced mixed results …

Although initially described as an inborn disorder of affective contact, information on autism
as it exists in infants has been limited. Delays in diagnosis, lack of information about the …

In this lively book, Philippe Rochat makes a case for an ecological approach to human
development. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, he describes how infants …

Despite hundreds of studies describing infants' visual exploration of experimental stimuli,
researchers know little about where infants look during everyday interactions. The current …