Background We use “theory of mind” or “mind reading” to understand our own thoughts and
feelings and those of other agents. Mind reading has been a focus of philosophical interest …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget.
Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …

Two studies were conducted to investigate how 14‐to 16‐month‐old infants select actions to
imitate from the stream of events. In each study, an experimenter demonstrated two actions …

Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of
disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the …

We take an evolutionary developmental perspective to examine the development of and sex
differences in object-oriented play and tool use and the relationship between the two. We …

The agent-based approach emphasizes the importance of learning through organism-
environment interaction. This approach is part of a recent trend in computational models of …

The present work investigated whether by the end of the first year, infants interpret actions
performed by a mechanical device as goal-directed and why they would do so. Using a …

Volume 43 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight
some of the most recent research in the area of Rational Constructivism. Each chapter …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …