Human cooperation is a key driving force behind the evolutionary success of our hominin
lineage. At the proximate level, biologists and social scientists have identified other …

A Bayesian framework helps address, in computational terms, what knowledge children start
with and how they construct and adapt models of the world during childhood. Within this …

If we will observe how children learn languages, we will find that, to make them understand
what the names of simple ideas or substances stand for, people ordinarily show them the …

How do children learn that the word" dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just
to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of …

Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a
major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current …

Research with young children has shown that, like adults, they focus selectively on the
aspects of an actor's behavior that are relevant to his or her underlying intentions. The …

Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the" theory theory" of cognitive and
semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about …

" This book represents an integrative theory of cognitive development in infancy and early
childhood, emphasizing the important role that language plays in taking the 2-to 5-year-old …

The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an
evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …

Experiments with young infants provide evidence for early developing capacities to
represent physical objects and to reason about object motion. Early physical reasoning …