The status of thematic roles such as Agent and Patient in cognitive science is highly
controversial: To some they are universal components of core knowledge, to others they are …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Language exerts a powerful influence on our concepts. We review evidence documenting
the developmental origins of a precocious link between language and object categories in …

Infant research is hard. It is difficult, expensive, and time‐consuming to identify, recruit, and
test infants. As a result, ours is a field of small sample sizes. Many studies using infant …

To achieve human-like common sense about everyday life, machine learning systems must
understand and reason about the goals, preferences, and actions of other agents in the …

Abstract Theory of mind enables an observer to interpret others' behavior in terms of
unobservable beliefs, desires, intentions, feelings, and expectations about the world. This …

Young children can in principle make generic inferences (eg,“doffels are magnetic”) on the
basis of their own individual experience. Recent evidence, however, shows that by 4 years …

Two experiments examined whether 4‐month‐olds (n= 120) who were induced to assign
two objects to different categories would then be able to take advantage of these contrastive …

Over the first year, infants tune into the signals of their native language and begin to link
them to meaning. Here, we ask whether infants, like adults, can also infer the communicative …

In this theoretical review article, our primary goal is to contribute to the post-cognitivist
understanding of learning to perceive and perceiving as learning, by discussing a …