The emerging etiological model for developmental disorders, like dyslexia, is probabilistic
and multifactorial while the prevailing cognitive model has been deterministic and often …

▪ Abstract Perceptual learning involves relatively long-lasting changes to an organism's
perceptual system that improve its ability to respond to its environment. Four mechanisms of …

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 …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

The rhetoric of the social model of disability is presented, and its basic claims are critiqued.
Proponents of the social model use the distinction between impairment and disability to …

Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello
argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster …

Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have
analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods …