Bilingual environments provide a commonplace example of increased complexity and
uncertainty. Learning multiple languages entails mastery of a larger and more variable …

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 …

Psychological researchers have been criticized for making broad presumptions about
human behavior based on limited sampling. In part, presumptive generalizability is reflected …

Infant sleep plays a crucial role in various aspects of language development, including the
generalization of visual and auditory stimuli. The relative role of daytime naps and nocturnal …

In recent years, psychological researchers have been heavily criticized for generalizing
broadly from narrow samples, a concern that intersects with questions about the validity …

This study will investigate how children acquire the option to drop the subject of a sentence,
or null subjects (eg,“Tickles me” instead of “He tickles me”). In languages that do not permit …

From birth, humans make decisions about what to look at and for how long. A classic
framework proposes encoding as a key driver of looking behavior in development-in early …

How do we decide what to look at and when to stop looking? Even very young infants
engage in active visual selection, looking less and less as stimuli are repeated (habituation) …

There is substantial evidence that infants prefer infant-directed speech (IDS) to adult-
directed speech (ADS). The strongest evidence for this claim has come from two large-scale …

Syllables are one of the fundamental building blocks of early language acquisition. From
birth onwards, infants preferentially segment, process and represent the speech into syllable …