New efforts are using head cameras and eye-trackers worn by infants to capture everyday
visual environments from the point of view of the infant learner. From this vantage point, the …

A common view of learning in infancy emphasizes the role of incidental sensory experiences
from which increasingly abstract statistical regularities are extracted. In this view, infant …

Human development takes place in a social context. Two pervasive sources of social
information are faces and hands. Here, we provide the first report of the visual frequency of …

Infants possess a remarkable ability to rapidly learn and process visual inputs. As an infant's
mobility increases, so does the variety and dynamics of their visual inputs. Is this change in …

Visual learning depends on both the algorithms and the training material. This essay
considers the natural statistics of infant-and toddler-egocentric vision. These natural training …

Human faces are one of the most prominent stimuli in the visual environment of young
infants and convey critical information for the development of social cognition. During the …

It is a common view that the intricate array of specialized domains in the ventral visual
pathway is innately prespecified. What this review postulates is that they are not. We explore …

It is well established that the adult brain contains a mosaic of domain-specific networks. But
how do these domain-specific networks develop? Here we tested the hypothesis that the …

Children take their first steps, speak their first words, and learn to solve many new problems
seemingly overnight. Yet, each change reflects previous developments in the child across a …

Recently acquired fMRI data from human and macaque infants provide novel insights into
the origins of cortical networks specialized for perceiving faces. Data from both species …