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The Surprising (Easy!) Thing That Can Boost Your Kid’s Creativity
Parents: My daughter is big on talking with her hands. I’ve always found her grand sweeping gestures to be kind of humorous—every story she tells winds up looking like a wacky game of charades. But
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Children Can ‘Catch’ Social Bias Through Nonverbal Signals Expressed by Adults
Preschool-aged children can learn bias even through nonverbal signals displayed by adults, such as a condescending tone of voice or a disapproving look.
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Remembering Jerome Bruner
A series of tributes to Jerome “Jerry” Bruner, who died in 2016 at the age of 100, reflects the seminal contributions that led him to be known as the founder of the cognitive revolution.
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Gesturing Can Boost Children’s Creative Thinking
Two experiments suggest that encouraging children to use gestures as they think can help them come up with more creative ideas.
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Spelke Awarded Heineken Prize
APS William James Fellow Elizabeth S. Spelke, a Harvard University psychological scientist widely known for her research on the cognitive development of infants, recently received the C. L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science from
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Preschoolers’ Expectations Shape How They Interpret Speech
When someone misspeaks or forgets a word, we use our past experience with language to hear what we expect them to say — research suggests 4- and 5-year-old children show this adaptive ability to the same degree that adults do.
