For over 35 years, the violation-of-expectation paradigm has been used to study the
development of expectations in the first 3 years of life. A wide range of expectations has …

Learners use certainty to guide learning. They maintain existing beliefs when certain, but
seek further information when they feel uninformed. Here, we review developmental …

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 …

Data plots are widely used in science, journalism and politics, since they efficiently allow to
depict a large amount of information. Graphicacy, the ability to understand graphs, has thus …

Infancy researchers often use highly simplified, animated, or otherwise artificial stimuli to
study infant's understanding of abstract concepts including “causality” or even “prosociality” …

The violation‐of‐expectation method has been used in thousands of studies examining the
breadth and depth of preverbal infants' knowledge and cognitive capacities. In this …

For many years, neuroscientists have investigated the behavioural, computational and
neurobiological mechanisms that support value-based decisions, revealing how humans …

Infants in laboratory settings look longer at events that violate their expectations, learn better
about objects that behave unexpectedly, and match utterances to the objects that likely …

Meta-analytic evidence indicates that the quality of the attachment relationship that infants
establish with their primary caregiver has enduring significance for socioemotional and …

Curiosity is a core driver for life‐long learning, problem‐solving and decision‐making. In a
broad sense, curiosity is defined as the intrinsically motivated acquisition of novel …