Past research has established that children typically learn better from live demonstrations than from 2-dimensional sources of information like video. The current dissertation investigated the efficacy of a new form of ...

Success in early childhood requires fluent cognitive control functioning and the ability to select and execute effective regulatory strategies across many new contexts including academics and social interactions. Cognitive ...

Over the first few years of life, infants acquire the ability to make sense of, predict, respond to, remember, and learn from a variety of everyday human actions. Finding segmental structure within unfolding activity – in ...

People talk about coherent episodes of their experience, leading to strong dependencies between words and the contexts in which they appear. Consequently, language within a context is more repetitive and more coherent than ...