A5081477110- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Language and cultural evolution
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Infant Health and Development
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Noise Effects and Management
Victoria University of Wellington
2016-2024
University of Washington
2017
Harvard University
2016
Yale University
2013-2016
Harvard University Press
2015-2016
Instituto Profesional de Ciencias de la Computación
2015
New York University
2010-2014
Brain Mapping Foundation
2011-2012
University of California, Los Angeles
2011-2012
McGill University
2010-2011
Psychological scientists have become increasingly concerned with issues related to methodology and replicability, infancy researchers in particular face specific challenges replicability: For example, high-powered studies are difficult conduct, testing conditions vary across labs, different labs access infant populations. Addressing these concerns, we report on a large-scale, multisite study aimed at (a) assessing the overall replicability of single theoretically important phenomenon (b)...
Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended focus representations of beliefs, which are widely taken be among most central and basic theory mind representations. Representations knowledge, by contrast, have received comparatively little attention often been understood as depending prior belief. After all, how could one represent someone knowing something if does not even them believing it? Drawing a wide range methods across cognitive science, we ask whether belief or...
Human neonates prefer listening to speech compared many nonspeech sounds, suggesting that humans are born with a bias for speech. However, neonates’ preference may derive from properties of not unique but instead shared the vocalizations other species. To test this, thirty and sixteen 3‐month‐olds were presented nonsense rhesus monkey vocalizations. Neonates showed no over both these sounds synthetic sounds. In contrast, preferred Neonates’ initial biases minimally include These preferences...
Abstract Adults and 12‐month‐old infants recognize that even unfamiliar speech can communicate information between third parties, suggesting they separate the communicative function of from its lexical content. But do due to their experience understanding producing language, or appreciate is earlier, with little such experience? We examined whether 6‐month‐olds about an object. Infants watched a Communicator selectively grasp one two objects (target). During test, could no longer reach...
Helping others is often more complicated than fulfilling their requests, for instance, when an individual requests something that not suited to achieving her or his ultimate goal. Are children indiscriminate helpers, responding any object-directed action request, do helping actions prioritize goals over specific requests? We examined how 3-year-olds would provide help experimenter whose verbal were incompatible with the tasks she was trying accomplish, a situation in which best way deny...
Abstract The forms of many species’ vocal signals are shaped by their functions 1–15 . In humans, a salient context signaling is infant care, as human infants altricial 16, 17 Humans often alter vocalizations to produce “parentese”, speech and song produced for that differ acoustically from ordinary 18–35 in fashions have been proposed support parent-infant communication language learning 36–39 ; modulate affect 33, 40–45 and/or coordinate communicative interactions with 46–48 These theories...
Imitation is an important component of human social learning throughout life. Theoretical models and empirical data from anthropology psychology suggest that people tend to imitate self-similar individuals, such imitation biases increase the adaptive value (e.g., self-relevance) learned information. It unclear, however, what neural mechanisms underlie people's tendency those similar themselves. We focused on own-gender bias, a pervasive bias thought be for gender identity development. While...
Children help others to complete their goals. Yet adults are sometimes motivated in a “paternalistic” way, overriding recipient's desires if they conflict with the best interests. Experiments investigated whether 5‐year‐olds ( n = 100) consider desire, and consequences of fulfilling this when helping. overrode request for chocolate favor giving fruit snacks, would make recipient sick. did not override carrots, even sick, but gave carrots requested them. By age 5, children balance different...
Music commonly appears in behavioral contexts which it can be seen as playing a functional role, when parent sings lullaby with the goal of soothing baby. Humans readily make inferences, based on sounds they hear, regarding associated music. These inferences tend to accurate, even if songs are foreign languages or unfamiliar musical idioms; upon hearing Blackfoot lullaby, Korean listener no experience music, language, broader culture is far more likely judge music's function "used soothe...
From early on, infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed (ADS), and exposure to IDS has been correlated with language outcome measures such as vocabulary. The present multi-laboratory study explores this issue by investigating whether there is link between later vocabulary size. Infants' was tested part of the ManyBabies 1 project, follow-up CDI data were collected from subsample dataset at 18 24 months. A total 341 (18 months) 327 (24 across 21...
ABSTRACT Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluations based on third‐party interactions emerges within first year of life: infants preferred character who helped, over hindered, another tried but failed climb hill. This sparked new line inquiry into origins evaluations; however, replication attempts have yielded mixed results. We present...
Condemnation is ubiquitous in the social world and adults treat condemnation as a costly signal. We explore when children begin to signal by presenting 4‐ 9‐year‐old ( N = 435) with stories involving condemner of stealing noncondemner. Children were asked predict who would be more likely steal well should punished harshly for stealing. In five studies, we found that 7‐ signal—thinking less if caught hypocritically later. discuss implications these results children’s emerging understanding...
In the current study we extended research of Zuroff, Fournier, Patall, and Leybman (2010) who found that individuals differ in their use dominant leadership (DL), coalition building (CB), ruthless self-advancement (RSA) when trying to secure rank among peers. this examined whether interaction leaders' followers' social styles, composed these 3 dimensions, would influence group performance. Groups 4 undergraduates were asked write an article under randomly assigned 1 member. Hierarchical...
Drawing on evolutionary psychology, social exchange styles were conceptualized in terms of two dimensions individual differences approaching relationships: Benefit–seeking and cost–vigilance. In Study 1, a principal components analysis the Social Exchange Styles Questionnaire (SESQ) 156 undergraduates confirmed presence that very similar to expected dimensions: Equitable alliance building (EAB) vigilant management (VAM). The SESQ scales showed good internal consistency construct validity....
Music commonly appears in behavioral contexts which it can be seen as playing a functional role, when parent sings lullaby with the goal of soothing baby. Humans readily make inferences, on basis sounds they hear, regarding associated music. These inferences tend to accurate, even if songs are foreign languages or unfamiliar musical idioms; upon hearing Blackfoot lullaby, Korean listener no experience music, language, broader culture is far more likely judge music’s function “used soothe...
Music is characterized by acoustical forms that are predictive of its behavioral functions. For example, adult listeners accurately identify unfamiliar lullabies as infant-directed on the basis their musical features alone. This property could reflect a function listeners’ experiences, basic design human mind, or both. Here, we show American infants (N = 144) relax in response to 8 foreign lullabies, relative matched non-lullaby songs from other societies, indexed heart rate, pupillometry,...
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a behavioral syndrome where inattention and/or hyperactivity impair social, academic or occupational function. Cognitive impairments in temporal abilities and delay aversion have been related to ADHD. The aim of this study design game-like software that assesses perception for the early detection Method: Two groups 7 10 children (17 with ADHD 17 control children) were compared on their performance four based Delay Aversion, Anticipation,...