What, if anything, is special about human imitation? An evaluation of enculturated apes'
imitation skills, a “best case scenario” of non-human apes' imitation performance, reveals …

This chapter discusses what cognition–action trade-offs in infancy reveal about the
organization and developmental trajectory of attention. We focus on internal attention …

Previous literature suggests that attention processes such as sustained attention would
constitute a developmental foundation for the self-regulatory functions executive functioning …

The changing nature of executive control in preschool THE CHANGING NATURE OF
EXECUTIVE CONTROL IN PRESCHOOL EDITED BY Kimberly Andrews Espy, University of …

Despite the huge literature on reaching behavior, a clear idea about the motor control
processes underlying its development in infants is still lacking. This article contributes to …

Introduction Models of attachment and information processing suggest that the attention
infants allocate to social information might occur in a schema-driven processing manner …

This study examined the organization of attention in infancy in the context of embodied
cognition. Twenty-eight 7-month-old infants, split between Stage 2 and Stage 3 sitters …

This study examined how observing adults who persistently focus on particular objects to
achieve their goals can modulate infants' subsequent attention in the looking version of the …

In the first year of life, the ability to search for hidden objects is an indicator of object
permanence and, when multiple locations are involved, executive function (ie inhibition …

Working memory (WM) was examined in pre-school children with Autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) and children with typical development using eye-tracking technology. The children …