Highlights•We review the cognitive processes supporting mind attribution to animals.•Mind
attributions result from a set of automatic and reflective processes.•Autonomously moving …

Much of children's knowledge is derived not from their direct experiences with the
environment but rather from the input of others. However, until recently, the focus in studies …

Can susceptibility to false memory and suggestion increase dramatically with age? The
authors review the theoretical and empirical literatures on this counterintuitive possibility …

Relational thinking plays a central role in human cognition. However, it is not known how
children and adults acquire relational concepts and come to represent them in a form that is …

Previous research indicates that the ontological status that adults attribute to categories
varies systematically by domain. For example, adults view distinctions between different …

Researchers have examined inductive reasoning to identify different cognitive processes
when participants deal with inductive problems. This article presents a prescriptive theory of …

Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies
language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual …

We argue that critical areas of memory research rely on problematic measurement practices
and provide concrete suggestions to improve the situation. In particular, we highlight the …

People are remarkably smart: They use language, possess complex motor skills, make
nontrivial inferences, develop and use scientific theories, make laws, and adapt to complex …

Inductive reasoning entails using existing knowledge or observations to make predictions
about novel cases. We review recent findings in research on category‐based induction as …