Title:  Social Curiosity and Social Learning

Abstract:  Learning does not occur in isolation. From parent-child interactions to formal classroom environments, humans explore, learn, and communicate in rich, diverse social contexts. Rather than simply observing and copying their conspecifics, humans engage in a range of epistemic practices that actively recruit those around them. They query others to acquire useful information, consider others’ mental states to draw inferences that go beyond the evidence, and help others...

Title:  Folk philosophy of mind: Conceptual representations of mental life in early and middle childhood

Title:  Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of Uniquely Human Social Cognition

... Read more about Developmental Job Talk: Christopher Krupenye (University of St. Andrews)

Title:  Using Automated Controlled Rearing to Characterize the Origins of Cognition

... Read more about Developmental Job Talk: Justin Wood (University of Southern California)

Title: Faces, objects, and agents: How infants and children understand the visual world

... Read more about Developmental Job Talk: Laurie Bayet (American University)

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Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar

Presenter - Young-eun Lee, Graduate Student

Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar

Presenter - Jayden Ziegler, Graduate Student

Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar

Presenter - Shari Liu, Graduate Student

Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar

Presenter - Monica Burns, Graduate Student

Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar

Presenter - Paul Haward, Graduate Student

Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar

Presenter - Sam Mehr, Graduate Student