The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has garnered interest recently as a powerful
model for the future of neuroscience research. Much of this excitement has centered on the …

During social interactions, people's eyes convey a wealth of information about their direction
of attention and their emotional and mental states. This review aims to provide a …

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What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for
learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers …

The 'eye contact effect'is the phenomenon that perceived eye contact with another human
face modulates certain aspects of the concurrent and/or immediately following cognitive …

Most psychologists claim we begin to develop a “theory of mind” at age two or three, by
inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean small babies are unaware …

Humans are extremely sensitive to ostensive signals, like eye contact or having their name
called, that indicate someone's communicative intention toward them [1–3]. Infants also pay …

Everyone agrees that joint attention is a key feature of human social cognition. Yet, despite
over 40 years of work and hundreds of publications on this topic, there is still surprisingly …

We propose that humans are adapted to transfer knowledge to, and receive knowledge
from, conspecifics by teaching. This adaptation, which we call'pedagogy', involves the …

Context Within the first week of life, typical human newborns give preferential attention to the
eyes of others. Similar findings in other species suggest that attention to the eyes is a highly …