The visual world holds valuable communicative information for the language learning infant. Emerging evidence suggests that the way an infant distributes his or her attention …
This dissertation presents a line of research that investigates the information people use to pursue and evade other pedestrians and to perceive whether other pedestrians …
Previous research on selective learning and selective trust demonstrated that by age 4 children use speakers’ history of accuracy in naming familiar objects to infer …
Previous research has questioned the causal Bayes net formalism reporting the violation of the Markov principle which lies at the heart of the causal Bayes …
People have strong intuitions about human intelligence, but also dog intelligence. Yet the content or organization of these intuitions remain unknown. Over three experiments, we …