Learners use certainty to guide learning. They maintain existing beliefs when certain, but
seek further information when they feel uninformed. Here, we review developmental …

Curious information-seeking is known to be a key driver for learning, but characterizing this
important psychological phenomenon remains a challenge. In this article, we argue that …

Infant-directed speech (IDS) refers to the suite of prosodic and structural modifications that
adults use when communicating with infants, as opposed to adults. A number of theories …

The learning of first object names is deemed a hard problem due to the uncertainty inherent
in mapping a heard name to the intended referent in a cluttered and variable world …

Statistical learning enables learners to extract the environmental regularities necessary to
piece together the structure of their worlds. The capacity for statistical learning and its …

This research takes a dyadic approach to study early word learning and focuses on
toddlers'(N= 20, age: 17–23 months) information seeking and parents' information providing …

During exploration, young children often show an intuitive sensitivity to uncertainty, despite
their strong tendency towards overconfidence in their explicit judgments. Here, we examine …

During the early postnatal years, most infants rapidly learn to understand two naturally
evolved communication systems: language and emotion. While these two domains include …

Abstract Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems excel at diverse tasks, from image
classification to strategy games, even outperforming humans in many of these domains …

Curiosity is a core driver for life‐long learning, problem‐solving and decision‐making. In a
broad sense, curiosity is defined as the intrinsically motivated acquisition of novel …