In current psychological discourse, it is fashionable to talk about emotions as “embodied”
phenomena. At first glance, this idea is not novel. Historically, almost all psychological …

This chapter reviews what is known about the neural bases of cognitive development. We
begin by discussing why developmental psychologists might be interested in the neural …

Two major reform efforts in K–12 science education have taken place during the past 50
years. The first was the 1950–1970 curriculum reform efforts motivated by the launching of …

Schools are a central interface between evolution and culture. They are the contexts in
which children learn the evolutionarily novel abilities and knowledge needed to function as …

Affordances encode relationships between actions, objects, and effects. They play an
important role on basic cognitive capabilities such as prediction and planning. We address …

What are the origins of abstract concepts such as “seven,” and what role does language play
in their development? These experiments probed the natural number words and concepts of …

Our biological embodiment is one of the most fundamental conditions that govern our
experience of the world. The basic features of our biological embodiment have evolved to …

Many experiments with infants suggest that they possess quantitative abilities, and many
experimentalists believe that these abilities set the stage for later mathematics: natural …

Boyer's theory of counterintuitive cultural concept transmission claims that concepts that
ideas that violate naturally occurring intuitive knowledge structures enough to be attention …

The debate between Simulation–Theory (ST) and Theory–Theory (TT) provides the
dominant theoretical framework for research on “theory of mind”(ToM). Behavioural research …