Vision and learning have long been considered to be two areas of research linked only
distantly. However, recent developments in vision research have changed the conceptual …

Infancy is the foundational period for learning from adults, and the dynamics of the social
environment have long been considered central to children's development. Here, we reveal …

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 …

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

More than 30 years have passed since Mehler et al.(1988) proposed that newborns can
discriminate between languages that belong to different rhythm classes: stress-, syllable-or …

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

In order to acquire grammar, infants need to extract regularities from the linguistic input.
From birth, infants can detect regularities in speech based on identity relations, and show …

Infants readily extract linguistic rules from speech. Here, we ask whether this advantage
extends to linguistic stimuli that do not rely on the spoken modality. To address this question …

Studies have repeatedly shown sex differences in some areas of language development,
typically with an advantage for female over male children. However, the tested samples are …

Young children develop at a breathtaking rate. Within just a few years, they change from
helpless newborns into schoolchildren with all the abilities and skills needed to start formal …