The mirror mechanism is a basic brain mechanism that transforms sensory representations
of others' behaviour into one's own motor or visceromotor representations concerning that …

Causal understanding is a defining characteristic of human cognition. Like many animals,
human children learn to control their bodily movements and act effectively in the …

For over 35 years, the violation-of-expectation paradigm has been used to study the
development of expectations in the first 3 years of life. A wide range of expectations has …

We investigated the origins and interrelations of causal knowledge and knowledge of
agency in 3-month-old infants, who cannot yet effect changes in the world by reaching for …

In this paper we explore early musical behaviors through the lenses of the recently emerged
“4E” approach to mind, which sees cognitive processes as Embodied, Embedded, Enacted …

The discovery of mirror neurons in the monkey motor cortex has inspired wide-ranging
hypotheses about the potential relationship between action control and social cognition. In …

In this longitudinal study we examined the stability of exploratory play in infancy and its
relation to cognitive development in early childhood. We assessed infants'(N= 130, mean …

The role of motor experience in the processing of perceived actions is hotly debated on both
behavioral (eg, action understanding) and neural (eg, activation of the motor system) levels …

Human infants are born with their eyes open and an otherwise limited motor repertoire; thus,
studies measuring infant looking are commonly used to investigate the developmental …

Parenting and Theory of Mind represents the conjunction of two major research literatures in
child psychology. One is longstanding. The question of how best to rear children has been a …