Perception involves making sense of a dynamic, multimodal environment. In the absence of
mechanisms capable of exploiting the statistical patterns in the natural world, infants would …

Attachment theory has been generating creative and impactful research for almost half a
century. In this article we focus on the documented antecedents and consequences of …

Research suggests that infants use statistical regularities in linguistic input to identify and
learn a range of linguistic structures, from the sounds of language (eg, native‐language …

The past 25 years have seen the functional domain of the cerebellum extend beyond the
realm of motor control, with considerable discussion of how this subcortical structure …

Contemporary conceptualizations on infant cognitive development focus on predictive
processes; the basic idea is that the brain continuously creates predictions about what is …

The violation‐of‐expectation method has been used in thousands of studies examining the
breadth and depth of preverbal infants' knowledge and cognitive capacities. In this …

During the early postnatal years, most infants rapidly learn to understand two naturally
evolved communication systems: language and emotion. While these two domains include …

Until recently, most behavioral studies of children with intellectual and developmental
disabilities (IDD) have used standardized assessments as a means to probe etiology and to …

Adults use both bottom‐up sensory inputs and top‐down signals to generate predictions
about future sensory inputs. Infants have also been shown to make predictions with simple …

Children who generate and update verbal predictions have larger vocabularies, suggesting
that prediction may be a mechanism that supports language learning. We hypothesize that …