Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This
view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social learning so powerful: social …

Human language, a signature of our species, derives its power from its links to human
cognition. For centuries, scholars have been captivated by this link between language and …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

The majority of research on infants' and children's understanding of emotional expressions
has focused on their abilities to use emotional expressions to infer how other people feel …

To what extent does language shape how we think about the world? Studies suggest that
linguistic symbols expressing conceptual categories ('apple','squirrel') make us focus on …

Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of
sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however …

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 …

According to recent theoretical proposals, one function of infant goal attribution is to support
early social learning of artifact functions from instrumental actions, and one function of infant …

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 …

We evaluate here the performance of four models of cross‐situational word learning: two
global models, which extract and retain multiple referential alternatives from each word …