This article presents a unifying theory of the embodied, situated human brain called the
Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind (HMM). The HMM describes the brain as a complex …

Background The term 'specific language impairment'(SLI), in use since the 1980s, describes
children with language impairment whose cognitive skills are within normal limits where …

This article proposes a link between autistic people being misperceived by the neurotypical
majority and their being at risk of poor mental health and well‐being. We present a …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

The first year of life is punctuated by explosions of growth in motor and language abilities.
This is not a coincidence. The notion of developmental cascades provides a conceptual …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

Objective: Evidence from prospective studies of high-risk infants suggests that early
symptoms of autism usually emerge late in the first or early in the second year of life after a …

Children's number competencies over 6 time points, from the beginning of kindergarten to
the middle of 1st grade, were examined in relation to their mathematics achievement over 5 …

We analyzed the microstructure of child-adult interaction during naturalistic, daylong,
automatically labeled audio recordings (13,836 hr total) of children (8-to 48-month-olds) with …