Causal explanations are central to cognitive development. Once considered beyond the
grasp of young children, causal reasoning is now understood to be present in infants, driving …

Research on gesture development has mostly focused on home environments. Little is
known about early communicative development in other relevant contexts, such as early …

The emergence of the pointing gesture is a major developmental milestone in human
infancy. Pointing fosters preverbal communication and is key for language and theory of …

Communicative development can be better understood by examining the diversity of
gestures and how various forms of gestures are interlinked in their developmental origins …

Infant deictic gestures, particularly infant index-finger pointing, are early manifestations of
referential communication and are predictive of language development. Despite the social …

Impressive research results, systems, and infrastructure have become widely available
based on generative approaches, large language models (LLMs). Foundation models are …