Play is one of the most difficult behaviors to quantify and for this reason, its study has had a
very rocky history. Social play is ephemeral, difficult to distinguish from the other so-called …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

We review evidence of non-verbal, embodied narratives in human infancy to better
understand their form and function as generators of common experience, regulation, and …

In search of our highest capacities, cognitive scientists aim to explain things like
mathematics, language, and planning (and while explaining them, they often imagine …

Everyone agrees that joint attention is a key feature of human social cognition. Yet, despite
over 40 years of work and hundreds of publications on this topic, there is still surprisingly …

Infants develop in a social context, surrounded by knowledgeable caregivers who scaffold
learning through shared engagement with objects. However, researchers have typically …

We review evidence that, from birth, infants have purposeful consciousness of rhythmic
whole‐body movement, with multi‐modal perception of objects outside their body, and self …

Studies of parent-child book reading tend to focus on parents of toddlers and preschool
children, but not infants. This study examined features of parents' shared reading with …

The temporal structure of behavior contains a rich source of information about its dynamic
organization, origins, and development. Today, advances in sensing and data storage allow …

We contrast two theses that make different assumptions about the developmental onset of
human-unique sociality. The primary intersubjectivity thesis (PIT) argues that humans relate …