Cognition materializes in an interpersonal space. The emergence of complex behaviors
requires the coordination of actions among individuals according to a shared set of rules …

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 …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

The disparity in the amount and quality of language that low-income children hear relative to
their more-affluent peers is often referred to as the 30-million-word gap. Here, we expand …

Parents' responsiveness to infants' exploratory and communicative behaviors predicts infant
word learning during early periods of language development. We examine the processes …

Language learning takes place in the context of social interactions, yet the mechanisms that
render social interactions useful for learning language remain unclear. This study focuses …

Parental language input is one of the best predictors of children's language achievement.
Parentese, a near-universal speaking style distinguished by higher pitch, slower tempo, and …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

This paper briefly introduces radical embodied cognitive science (RECS) and places it in
historical perspective. Radical embodied cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach …

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the
standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief …