Previous work suggests that key factors for replicability, a necessary feature for theory
building, include statistical power and appropriate research planning. These factors are …

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

Human infants are born with their eyes open and an otherwise limited motor repertoire; thus,
studies measuring infant looking are commonly used to investigate the developmental …

Infant psychology has heavily drawn on the Violation‐of‐Expectation (VoE) method. In this
piece, I analyse the assumptions that go into the VoE method by comparing it with other …

Selective publication and reporting in individual papers compromise the scientific record, but
are meta‐analyses as compromised as their constituent studies? We systematically sampled …

Adults and toddlers systematically associate pseudowords such as “bouba” and “kiki” with
round and spiky shapes, respectively, a sound symbolic phenomenon known as the “bouba …

Everyone agrees that infants possess general mechanisms for learning about the world, but
the existence and operation of more specialized mechanisms is controversial. One …

Significance Concerns about the reproducibility of experimental findings have recently
emerged in many disciplines, from psychology to medicine and neuroscience. As NIRS is a …

Theories of language acquisition and perceptual learning increasingly rely on statistical
learning mechanisms. The current meta-analysis aims to clarify the robustness of this …

At birth, infants discriminate most of the sounds of the world's languages, but by age 1,
infants become language-specific listeners. This has generally been taken as evidence that …