Curiosity, the intrinsic motivation to investigate and gain information, is fundamental to human intelligence. However, like other cognitive capacities that ...

The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

Detection and tracking of animals is an important first step for automated behavioral studies using videos. Animal tracking is currently done mostly using deep learning frameworks based on keypoints, ...

Successful coordination of infant attention and parent speech during free play supports infants' language development. Parents' responsive linguistic input reduces uncertainty in label-referent assoc...

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According to recent computational approaches, when children are presented with information by knowledgeable others, children can make the pedagogical …

Abstract. The current study explored the dynamics of parent–child coordinated attention to novel and familiar objects during a play session, to examine whe

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Growing up with multiple siblings might negatively affect language development. This study examined the associations between birth order, sibling characteristics and parent-reported vocabulary size i....

Humans are curious. Especially children are known for their drive to explore and learn, which is crucial for developing in and navigating through our complex world. Naturally, some children may be mo...

Gaze following – infants’ orienting towards an object attended to by their social partner – has been linked to a range of socio-cognitive skills. Despite considerable research on when infants follow ...

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This current study examines the extent to which children’s interests and caregivers’ sensitivity to their children’s interests are associated with the quality of caregiver–child interaction, and subse...

Developmental research utilizes various different methodologies and measures to study the cognitive development of young children; however, the reliab…

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Es heißt Forschungszentrum Human Behavior and Cognition (HuCaB), 60 Millionen Euro soll es kosten. Nach ersten Abrissarbeiten seit September haben nun die Bauarbeiten auf dem Gelände des Georg-Elias...