It has long been claimed that Homo sapiens is the only species that has language, but only
recently has it been recognized that humans also have an unusual pattern of growth and …

We examined whether mothers' use of temporal synchrony between spoken words and
moving objects, and infants' attention to object naming, predict infants' learning of word …

In this article, we hypothesize that invariance detection, a general perceptual phenomenon
whereby organisms attend to relatively stable patterns or regularities, is an important means …

We present an unsupervised algorithm for the discovery of words and word-like fragments
from the speech signal, without using an upfront defined lexicon or acoustic phone models …

A rapidly growing industry creates and markets a vast range of screen media products
designed specifically for babies and children under the age of three. Marketing of these …

To explore early lexical development, the authors examined infants' sensitivity to changes in
spoken syllables and objects given different temporal relations between syllable–object …

We propose that the development of causality can be seen as a primitive for understanding
and constructing complex systems either biological or artificial. Furthermore, we put forward …

The stormy development of vocal production during the first postnatal weeks is generally
underestimated. Our longitudinal studies revealed an amazingly fast unfolding and …

We focus on two problems with the evolutionary scenario proposed:(1) It bypasses the
question of the origins of the communicative and semiotic features that make language …

In the first year of life, infants' utterances change from high-intensity crying to low-intensity
acoustic sound strings, acoustically labelling the first word. This transition implies:(1) …