Perception involves making sense of a dynamic, multimodal environment. In the absence of
mechanisms capable of exploiting the statistical patterns in the natural world, infants would …

Prior reviews of infant face processing have emphasized how infants respond to faces in
general. This review highlights how infants come to respond differentially to social …

Young children develop causal knowledge through everyday family conversations and
activities. Children's museums are an informative setting for studying the social context of …

How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words
point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …

Humans' preference for others who share our group membership is well documented, and
this heightened valuation of in-group members seems to be rooted in early development …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

The study of children's social learning is a topic of central importance to our understanding
of human development. Learning from others allows children to acquire information …

Eyes have been shown to play a key role during human social interactions. However, to
date, no comprehensive cross-discipline model has provided a framework that can account …

Active social communication is an effective way for infants to learn about the world. Do pre‐
verbal and pre‐pointing infants seek epistemic information from their social partners when …