Defining play has plagued researchers and philosophers for years. From describing play as
an inaccessible concept due to its complexity, to providing checklists of features, the field …

This article provides a review of the increasingly detailed imaging literature on the
neurodevelopment of joint attention. Many findings from this literature support and inform the …

Children are in the midst of a vast, unplanned experiment, surrounded by digital
technologies that were not available but 5 years ago. At the apex of this boom is the …

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 …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

We propose a new version of the “theory theory” grounded in the computational framework
of probabilistic causal models and Bayesian learning. Probabilistic models allow a …

Many experimental research designs require images of novel objects. Here we introduce the
Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database. This database contains 64 primary …

Eye gaze is a ubiquitous cue in child–caregiver interactions, and infants are highly attentive
to eye gaze from very early on. However, the question of why infants show gaze-sensitive …

How do infants learn so rapidly and with little apparent effort? In 1996, Saffran, Aslin, and
Newport reported that 8‐month‐old human infants could learn the underlying temporal …

Children's causal learning has been characterized as a rational process, in which children
appropriately evaluate evidence from their observations and actions in light of their existing …