Curiosity is a basic element of our cognition, but its biological function, mechanisms, and
neural underpinning remain poorly understood. It is nonetheless a motivator for learning …

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 …

The polyvagal theory presented in client-friendly language. This book offers therapists an
integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear …

Environmental Psychology for Design, Third Edition, shows how rooms and buildings can
affect an occupant's behavior and health by explaining psychosocial responses. Recipient of …

When speaking to infants, adults often produce speech that differs systematically from that
directed to other adults. To quantify the acoustic properties of this speech style across a wide …

This chapter studies the bidirectional causal interactions between curiosity and learning and
discusses how understanding these interactions can be leveraged in educational …

The desire to reduce the dependence on curated, labeled datasets and to leverage the vast
quantities of unlabeled data has triggered renewed interest in unsupervised (or self …

Music ranks among the greatest human pleasures. It consistently engages the reward
system, and converging evidence implies it exploits predictions to do so. Both prediction …

Successful behaviour depends on the right balance between maximising reward and
soliciting information about the world. Here, we show how different types of information-gain …

Traditional American schooling is in constant crisis because it is based on two poor models
for children's learning: the school as a factory and the child as a blank slate. School reforms …