Human faces are one of the most prominent stimuli in the visual environment of young
infants and convey critical information for the development of social cognition. During the …

Psychology has made tremendous strides in understanding the effects that social stimuli
have on attention. However, one aspect that has received relatively less consideration is the …

Group interactions influence human social and cognitive function. However, the non-verbal
vehicles of that influence remain poorly understood. To address this question, here we …

Previous research on perceptual and cognitive development has predominantly focused on
infants' passive response to experience. For example, if infants are exposed to acoustic …

Recent studies have revealed the influence of higher-level cognitive systems in modulating
perceptual processing (top-down perceptual modulation) in infancy. However, more …

Top-down modulation is an essential cognitive component in human perception. Despite
mounting evidence of top-down perceptual modulation in adults, it is largely unknown …

To effectively contain the spread of COVID-19, public health agencies mandated special
regulations. Although they protected us from COVID-19, these restrictions have inevitably …

The internet provides a space for social interactions, content distribution, and consultation.
The various social productions, communicative registers, practices, and activities today take …

Prior work has found that the frontal lobe is involved in higher-order sequential and
statistical learning in young infants. Separate lines of work have found evidence of …

When looking for an object, we identify it by selectively focusing our attention to a specific
feature, known as feature-based attention. This basic attentional system has been reported …