The last decade has seen substantial advances in the capacity to record behaviour and
neural activity in humans in real-world settings, to simulate real-world situations in laboratory …

Without explicit feedback, humans can rapidly learn the meaning of words. Children can
acquire a new word after just a few passive exposures, a process known as fast mapping …

Most current research in cognitive neuroscience uses standardized non-ecological
experiments to study the developing brain. But these approaches do a poor job of mimicking …

In the current study, we examined the separate and combined effects of exemplar and
speaker variability on monolingual and bilingual children's cross-situational word learning …

We know that infants' ability to coordinate attention with others toward the end of the first
year is fundamental to language acquisition and social cognition. Yet, we understand little …

Neural network models have recently made striking progress in natural language
processing, but they are typically trained on orders of magnitude more language input than …

Real-time attention coordination in parent–toddler dyads is often studied in tightly controlled
laboratory settings. These studies have demonstrated the importance of joint attention in …

In infancy, sensorimotor capacities directly affect learning. Although developmental
scientists have studied the link between sensorimotor capacities and learning, their work …

Infants as young as 14 months can track cross-situational statistics between sets of words
and objects to acquire word–referent mappings. However, in naturalistic word learning …

To acquire language, learners have to map the language onto the environment, but
languages vary as to how much information they include to constrain how a sentence relates …