Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

During the first year of life, infants pass important milestones in language development. We
review some of the experimental evidence concerning these milestones in the domains of …

We survey a current, heated debate in the artificial intelligence (AI) research community on
whether large pretrained language models can be said to understand language—and the …

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 …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

It is widely accepted that infants begin learning their native language not by learning words,
but by discovering features of the speech signal: consonants, vowels, and combinations of …

This article provides a synthesis and overview of a theory of cognitive development, rational
constructivism. The basic tenets of this view are as follows:(a) Initial state: Human infants …

Names: Beetham, Helen, 1967-editor.| Sharpe, Rhona, 1969-editor. Title: Rethinking
pedagogy for a digital age: principles and practices of design/edited by Helen Beetham and …

Classic approaches to word learning emphasize referential ambiguity: In naming situations,
a novel word could refer to many possible objects, properties, actions, and so forth. To solve …

We offer a new solution to the unsolved problem of how infants break into word learning
based on the visual statistics of everyday infant-perspective scenes. Images from head …