Communicative signals such as eye contact increase infants' brain activation to visual stimuli
and promote joint attention. Our study assessed whether communicative signals during joint …

Hallmark social activities of humans, such as cooperation and cultural learning, involve eye-
gaze signaling through joint attentional interaction and ostensive communication. The gaze …

Eye contact with an experimenter enhances participants' performance in certain cognitive
tasks. The eye contact effect has been demonstrated in studies with infants and adults …

Learning new information from others, called social learning, is one of the most fundamental
types of learning from infancy. Developmental studies show that infants likely engage in …

Representing objects in terms of their kinds enables inferences based on the long-term
knowledge made available through kind concepts. For example, children readily use lexical …

The development of tool use in early childhood is a topic of continuing interest in
developmental psychology. However, the lack of studies in ecological settings results in …

According to the Theory of Natural Pedagogy, object-directed emotion may provide different
information depending on the context: in a communicative context, the information conveys …

This study investigates infants' neural and behavioral responses to maternal ostensive
signals during naturalistic mother‐infant interactions and their effects on object encoding …

We propose that humans are prepared to interpret giving as a diagnostic cue of reciprocal–
exchange relations from infancy. A prediction following from this hypothesis is that infants …

In direct interactions with others, 9-month-old infants' learning about objects is facilitated
when the interaction partner addresses the infant through eye contact before looking toward …