Evidence from children's performance in a variety of tasks suggests a change in the kinds of
similarities children notice and use: Children tend to focus on literal similarity and then shift …

The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

Recent evidence suggests that 4.5‐and even 3.5‐month‐old infants realize that objects
continue to exist when hidden. The goal of the present experiments was to obtain …

Drawing on philosophy, the history of psychology and the natural sciences, this book
proposes a new theoretical foundation for the psychology of the life course. It features the …

Developmental changes in imitation were examined in three experiments with 6-to 24-month-
old infants. In all experiments, infants in the demonstration condition observed an …

A growing body of infant studies with various implicit, non-verbal measures has suggested
that Theory of Mind (ToM) may emerge much earlier than previously assumed. While explicit …

Many organisms can predict future events from the statistics of past experience, but humans
also excel at making predictions by pure reasoning: integrating multiple sources of …

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human
cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how …

Analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, involved in classification, learning,
problem-solving and creative thinking, and should be a basic building block of cognitive …

The authors provide a new framework that integrates autobiographical memory with other
early achievements (eg, gesturing, language, concept formation). In this theory, the …