Antonia F Langenhoff,Bill D Thompson,Mahesh Srinivasan et al.
Antonia F Langenhoff et al.
Metacognition improves significantly over childhood, but the mechanisms underlying this development are poorly understood. We first review recent research demonstrating that disagreement prompts competent responses by young children across ...
Veronika Job,Christopher Mlynski,Christina A Bauer
Veronika Job
Difficulties are a common part of life, ranging from daily challenges to chronic adversity. While difficulties can undermine well-being, they can also promote growth and resilience. What determines whether difficulty harms or helps? A growi...
Rebecca Treiman,Brett Kessler
Rebecca Treiman
The statistical learning view of word reading and spelling is based on the ideas that writing systems have a rich statistical structure and that people implicitly pick up this structure as they learn to read and write. Whereas laboratory st...
Boris C Bernhardt,Sofie L Valk,Seok-Jun Hong et al.
Boris C Bernhardt et al.
Despite considerable research efforts, mechanisms of autism remain incompletely understood. Key challenges in conceptualizing and managing autism include its diverse behavioral and cognitive phenotypes, a lack of reliable biomarkers, and th...
Philip Corlett,Rosa Rossi-Goldthorpe,Praveen Suthaharan et al.
Philip Corlett et al.
It has been argued that social processes are relevant to belief formation and maintenance and thence to persecutory delusions - the fixed false beliefs that others intend harm. We call this the social turn in delusions research. It suggests...
Samuel A Mehr
Samuel A Mehr
Human musicality is supported by two distinct systems of representation: one for tonal perception, which contextualizes pitch input in reference to a hierarchy of tones; and one for metrical perception, which contextualizes temporal input i...
Lilian A Weber,Debbie M Yee,Dana M Small et al.
Lilian A Weber et al.
Rewards play a crucial role in sculpting all motivated behavior. Traditionally, research on reinforcement learning has centered on how rewards guide learning and decision-making. Here, we examine the origins of rewards themselves. Specifica...
Andrew D Vigotsky,Gian Domenico Iannetti,A Vania Apkarian
Andrew D Vigotsky
Bastiaan T Rutjens
Bastiaan T Rutjens
Psychological distance to science reflects how people perceive science from the perspective of the self. For many, science represents a distant endeavor that is irrelevant to day-to-day life. Research from my lab finds that distance to scie...
Sangil Lee,Andrew S Kayser,Ming Hsu
Sangil Lee