How and when infants and young children begin to develop emotion categories is not yet
well understood. Research has largely treated the learning problem as one of identifying …

Neural networks are successfully used to imitate and model cognitive processes. However,
to provide clues about the neurobiological mechanisms enabling human cognition, these …

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 …

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete,“basic” emotions
have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and …

Human language, a signature of our species, derives its power from its links to human
cognition. For centuries, scholars have been captivated by this link between language and …

A neurobiologically constrained model of semantic learning in the human brain was used to
simulate the acquisition of concrete and abstract concepts, either with or without verbal …

Infants are curious learners who drive their own cognitive development by imposing
structure on their learning environment as they explore. Understanding the mechanisms by …

Language influences cognitive and conceptual processing, but the mechanisms through
which such causal effects are realized in the human brain remain unknown. Here, we use a …

Acquired disorders of language represent loss of previously acquired skills, usually with
relatively specific impairments. In children with developmental disorders of language, we …

Although teaching animals a few meaningful signs is usually time-consuming, children
acquire words easily after only a few exposures, a phenomenon termed “fast-mapping.” …