While current vision algorithms excel at many challenging tasks, it is unclear how well they
understand the physical dynamics of real-world environments. Here we introduce Physion, a …

Recent advances in information technology have enabled scientists to generate
unprecedented amounts of earth-related data, with tremendous potential for dealing with …

One of the classic markers of developmental change in infants between 7%-12 months of
age is improved performance on “the a task”(pronounced “A not B”). This task was first …

On se réjouit, on s' amuse, on s' extasie des premiers mots de son enfant. Mais tout cela-
premier cri, premier babil, première syllabe, première phrase-semble si naturel! Si naturel …

A dynamic systems model is proposed on the basis of a general developmental mechanism
adopted from the theories of J. Piaget and LS Vygotsky, more particularly a mechanism …

I propose that infants know a good deal more about objects than Piaget gave them credit for
knowing. For Piaget, many of the developments between 5 and 12 months of age concerned …

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete,“basic” emotions
have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and …

The traditional conception of language is that it is, in Aristotle's phrase, sound with meaning.
The sound-meaning correlation is, furthermore, unbounded, an elementary fact that came to …

A text which addresses the relationship between childhood, competence and the social
arenas of action in which children live their lives. Taking issue with the view that children are …

The present experiment investigated two facets of object permanence in young infants: the
ability to represent the existence and the location of a hidden stationary object, and the …