Teaching is one of mankind׳ s most important achievements. It allows cumulative human
culture to exist and enables us to have a history. Despite its significance, it has not been …

We suggest that a multidisciplinary approach to teaching has potential to widen its scope. In
that vein, we revisit our original claim that teaching is a natural cognitive ability among …

This study investigated whether children learn from exploration and act as effective
informants by providing informative demonstrations tailored to observers' goals and …

The relations among children's theory of mind (ToM), their understanding of the intentionality
of teaching, and their own peer teaching strategies were tested. Seventy-five 3-, 4-, and 5 …

Teaching is an important process of cultural transmission. Some have argued that human
teaching is a cognitive instinct–a form of 'natural cognition'centred on mindreading, shaped …

One hundred and sixteen Korean 3-to 5-year-olds were individually taught animal names
through a game, either in a direct condition in which the instructional goal was stated or an …

This study examined siblings' knowledge about the teaching concept during naturalistic
teaching contexts, wherein children's communicative interactions were used as a gateway to …

Children learn novel information using various methods, and one of the most common is
human pedagogical communication or teaching–the purposeful imparting of information …

Teaching allows human culture to exist and to develop. Despite its significance, it has not
been studied in depth by the cognitive neurosciences. Here we propose two hypotheses to …

Young children are not only prepared to learn from teaching, but they also start to
spontaneously teach others, indicating that teaching is a natural instinct of the humankind …