Curious information-seeking is known to be a key driver for learning, but characterizing this
important psychological phenomenon remains a challenge. In this article, we argue that …

This article provides an estimation of how frequently, and from whom, children aged 0–11
years (Ns between 9 and 24) receive one‐on‐one verbal input among Tsimane forager …

The first 5 years of life are characterized by incredible growth across domains of child
development. Drawing from over 50 years of seminal research, this chapter contextualizes …

This chapter traces the burgeoning field of developmental gesture studies and examines the
emergence of gestures as visible utterances, adult responses to children's gestures, and the …

The majority of current developmental models prioritise a pedagogical approach to
knowledge acquisition in infancy, in which infants play a relatively passive role as recipients …

Recent theoretical work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are
predisposed to align their mental states with those of other individuals. One way this …

What is the social function of babbling? An important function of prelinguistic vocalizing may
be to elicit parental behavior in ways that facilitate the infant's own learning about speech …

Infants' pointing gestures are a critical predictor of early vocabulary size. However, it remains
unknown precisely how pointing relates to word learning. The current study addressed this …

Infants' pointing gestures are clear and salient markers of their interest. As a result, they
afford infants with a targeted and precise way of eliciting information from others. The current …

Both vocalization and gesture are universal modes of communication and fundamental
features of language development. The gestural origins theory proposes that language …