One of the foundational ideas of developmental psychology, famously put forth by Piaget, is
that young children are active learners (Piaget, 1954). Rather than passively absorbing …

Infants' pointing gestures are clear and salient markers of their interest. As a result, they
afford infants with a targeted and precise way of eliciting information from others. The current …

When asking how cognition comes to take its mature form, learning seems to be an obvious
factor to consider. However, until quite recently, there has been very little contact between …

Young children develop at a breathtaking rate. Within just a few years, they change from
helpless newborns into schoolchildren with all the abilities and skills needed to start formal …

Preschoolers' questions may play an important role in cognitive development. When
children encounter a problem with their current knowledge state (a gap in their knowledge …

The majority of current developmental models prioritise a pedagogical approach to
knowledge acquisition in infancy, in which infants play a relatively passive role as recipients …

Although there is consensus about the importance of early communicative gestures such as
pointing, there is an ongoing debate regarding how infants develop the ability to understand …

Human communication works in an utterly unique way. Other primates gesture and vocalize
mostly selfishly, to get others to do what they want them to, but humans communicate …

The goal of the present research was to assess whether communicative gestures, such as
gazing and declarative pointing of 12-month-old infants indicate that infants perceive people …

This chapter considers why studies of infant looking and reaching often suggest different
patterns of cognitive and perceptual development. In some cases, convergent results have …