I argue that the evolution of our life history, with its distinctively long, protected human
childhood, allows an early period of broad hypothesis search and exploration, before the …

The ontogeny of human empathy is better understood with reference to the evolutionary
history of the social brain. Empathy has deep evolutionary, biochemical, and neurological …

Children and adolescents are not indifferent to the dramatic impact of the COVID-19
pandemic, and the need to be forced to live in confinement. The change in life to which they …

How was the evolution of our unique biological life history related to distinctive human
developments in cognition and culture? We suggest that the extended human childhood and …

Cortical growth and remodeling continues from birth through youth and adolescence to
stable adult levels changing slowly into senescence. There are critical periods of cortical …

Scientific thinking refers to both thinking about the content of science and the set of
reasoning processes that permeate the field of science: induction, deduction, experimental …

The authors propose a heuristic model of the social outcomes of childhood brain disorder
that draws on models and methods from both the emerging field of social cognitive …

The prefrontal cortex plays an essential role in various cognitive functions, such as planning
and reasoning, yet little is known about how such neural mechanisms develop during …

One of the most salient ways in which our behavior changes during childhood and
adolescence is that we get better at working towards long-term goals, at ignoring irrelevant …

Existing evidence suggests that the organization of cognitive functions may differentiate
during development. We investigated two key components of executive functions, memory …