Contingent interactions between caregivers and infants, in which caregivers respond
promptly and meaningfully to infants' behaviors, lay a foundation for language learning …

Abstract Language and other forms of communication are inherently ambiguous and
therefore require some form of common ground to specify the intended meanings of …

Parents support and scaffold more mature behaviors in their infants. Recent research
suggests that parent–infant joint visual attention may scaffold the development of sustained …

Spectacular progress in the information processing sciences (machine learning, wearable
sensors) promises to revolutionize the study of cognitive development. Here, we analyse the …

The first 5 years of life are characterized by incredible growth across domains of child
development. Drawing from over 50 years of seminal research, this chapter contextualizes …

Most research on early language learning focuses on the objects that infants see and the
words they hear in their daily lives, although growing evidence suggests that motor …

Infants build knowledge by acting on the world. We conducted an ecologically grounded test
of an embodied learning hypothesis: that infants' active engagement with objects in the …

The learning of first object names is deemed a hard problem due to the uncertainty inherent
in map** a heard name to the intended referent in a cluttered and variable world …

Parent-child interactions support the development of a wide range of socio-cognitive abilities
in young children. As infants become increasingly mobile, the nature of these interactions …

What is vision's role in driving early word production? To answer this, we assessed parent‐
report vocabulary questionnaires administered to congenitally blind children (N= 40, Mean …