Augmented reality (AR) applications are becoming widely available to support preschoolers'
cognitive development and education. AR applications with educational features offer an …

Highlights•Explanation-seeking curiosity (ESC) motivates the pursuit of explanations.•ESC is
highly selective: it is not triggered merely by ignorance or uncertainty.•Children can acquire …

Using both behavioral and eye-tracking methodology, we tested whether and how asking
students to generate predictions is an efficient technique to improve learning. In particular …

Abstract The influence of Prediction Errors (PEs) on episodic memory has generated
growing empirical and theoretical interest. This review explores how the relationship …

Learners use certainty to guide learning. They maintain existing beliefs when certain, but
seek further information when they feel uninformed. Here, we review developmental …

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 …

Events—the experiences we think we are having and recall having had—are constructed;
they are not what actually occurs. What occurs is ongoing dynamic, multidimensional …

From infancy, children show heightened interest in events that are impossible or improbable,
relative to likely events. Do young children represent impossible and improbable events as …

During exploration, young children often show an intuitive sensitivity to uncertainty, despite
their strong tendency towards overconfidence in their explicit judgments. Here, we examine …

There is currently much interest in the role of prediction in language processing, both in L1
and L2. For language acquisition researchers, this has prompted debate on the role that …