The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were...

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Scientific Data - EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition

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The capacity to experience inner speech has been hypothesized to impact cognitive functions like object recognition, abstract thought, and metacognition. However, little is known about how individual ...

Scientific Reports - Communicative mind-reading in preverbal infants

Abstract. Previous studies on social contingency have revealed that young infants are sensitive to the consistent temporal pairing of contingent responses

Communicative mentalization is limited in nonhuman great apes

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Nature Human Behaviour - Big team science has the potential to reshape comparative cognition research, but its implementation — especially in making fair comparisons between species, handling...

Infants have impressive auditory learning capabilities, even from the newborn stage. This study provides neuroimaging evidence that both newborns and 6–7-month-olds already learn and detect grammar-li...

Ein Forschungsprojekt der CEU zeigt hoch entwickelte Kommunikationsfähigkeiten bei 18 Monate alten Kindern.

Abstract. Pragmatic theories assume that during communicative exchanges humans strive to be optimally informative and spontaneously adjust their communicative signals to satisfy their addressee’s infe...