The idea of cause and effect is often assumed to originate in prolonged learning. However,
the present findings suggest that 27-week-old infants may already perceive a cause-effect …

What is the nature of human thought? A long dominant view holds that the mind is a general
problem-solving device that approaches all questions in much the same way. Chomsky's …

Few phenomena in childhood are as compelling—and mystifying—as play. We review five
proposals about the relationship between play and development. We believe each captures …

An argument that challenges the dominant" theory theory" and simulation theory approaches
to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done …

Twenty years ago Pepperberg set out to discover whether large-brained, highly social
parrots were capable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of …

In The Foundations of Mind, Jean Mandler presents a new theory of cognitive development
in infancy, focusing on the processes through which perceptual information is transformed …

These experiments tested object permanence in 3-12-and 4-12-month-old infants. The
method used in the experiments was similar to that used by Baillargeon, Spelke, and …

Infant research is hard. It is difficult, expensive, and time‐consuming to identify, recruit, and
test infants. As a result, ours is a field of small sample sizes. Many studies using infant …

Sex/gender differences in cognitive sciences are riddled by conflicting perspectives. At the
center of debates are clinical, social, and political perspectives. Front and center …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …