This review summarizes early human motor development. From early fetal age motor
behavior is based on spontaneous neural activity: activity of networks in the brainstem and …

The last decade has produced an explosion in neuroscience research examining young
children's early processing of language. Noninvasive, safe functional brain measurements …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly develo** …

Infants learn language with remarkable speed, but how they do it remains a mystery. New
data show that infants use computational strategies to detect the statistical and prosodic …

The mechanisms underlying the acquisition of speech-production ability in human infancy
are not well understood. We tracked 4–12-mo-old English-learning infants' and adults' eye …

▪ Abstract Human speech and birdsong have numerous parallels. Both humans and
songbirds learn their complex vocalizations early in life, exhibiting a strong dependence on …

Infants acquire language with remarkable speed, although little is known about the
mechanisms that underlie the acquisition process. Studies of the phonetic units of language …

A proposal that an embodied cognition approach to music research—drawing on work in
computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology—offers a promising …

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive
textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings …

Human learning is distinguished by the range and complexity of skills that can be learned
and the degree of abstraction that can be achieved compared with those of other species …