Children learn language from their social partners, and differences in the behavior of these social partners can influence language learning outcomes. The literature largely focuses on adult caregive...

Abstract. Variation in how people use language provides powerful cues to social identity. As children join a language community, they must acquire such soc

Jessica Cantlon had a grant with the U.S. Navy to explore whether people could improve spatial problem-solving skills through training. Then the program was cut.

Human multimodal processing abilities have provided researchers with an invaluable set of methods for interrogating language understanding. Even young…

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

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Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...

"This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our ...

Students in the Department of Psychology are tomorrow’s change makers, shaping the future of mental health care, providing valuable psychological insights in legal settings, and driving innovation in ...

Former congressman John Lewis from Georgia was famously quoted as saying, “Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” Over the p...

Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.

The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.

In short, the Institute of Education Sciences identifies what works and what doesn’t.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has received millions of dollars of taxpayer grants while promoting a variety of left-wing causes.