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 …

Explore-exploit decisions require us to trade off the benefits of exploring unknown options to
learn more about them, with exploiting known options, for immediate reward. Such decisions …

The ability of children to ask curiosity-driven questions is an important skill that helps
improve their learning. For this reason, previous research has explored designing specific …

Recent progress in artificial intelligence has renewed interest in building systems that learn
and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained …

Motor development and psychological development are fundamentally related, but
researchers typically consider them separately. In this review, we present four key features …

Defining play has plagued researchers and philosophers for years. From describing play as
an inaccessible concept due to its complexity, to providing checklists of features, the field …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Tomorrow's inventors and scientists are today's curious young children--as long as those
children are given ample chances to explore and are guided by adults equipped to support …

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean,
and 'learning'is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it's more of a …

Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This
view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social learning so powerful: social …