The imagination of young children has notable constraints. The outcomes and possibilities
that they imagine rarely deviate from the everyday regularities they have observed and …

Research on avian cognitive neuroscience over the past two decades has revealed the
avian brain to be a better model for understanding human cognition than previously thought …

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

DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE; An Advanced Textbook; Eighth Edition Page 1 DOI: 10.4324/9781003387145-8
Introduction: The Importance of Motor Development Motor behavior is critical to developmental …

The construction of novel compound tools through assemblage of otherwise non-functional
elements involves anticipation of the affordances of the tools to be built. Except for few …

The cumulative nature of human culture is unique in the animal kingdom. Progressive
improvements in tools and technologies have facilitated humanity's spread across the globe …

When parents brag about their baby's accomplishments and document their infant's
developmental achievements on calendars and smart phones, they tend to focus on …

Abstract 'Embodied cognition'suggests that our bodily experiences broadly shape our
cognitive capabilities. We study how embodied experience affects the abstract physical …

Recent studies of children's tool innovation have revealed that there is variation in children's
success in middle-childhood. In two individual differences studies, we sought to identify …

Cultural traits originate through creative or innovative processes, which might be crucial to
understanding how culture evolves and accumulates. However, because of its complexity …