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Is that chatbot smarter than a 4-year-old? Experts put it to the test.
Laura Schulz has spent her career trying to unravel one of the most profound human mysteries: how children think and learn. Earlier this year, the MIT cognitive psychologist found herself baffled by her latest test subject’s Visit Page
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Why a Cognitive Scientist Put a Head Cam on His Baby
When Luna was seven months old, she began wearing, at the behest of her scientist father, a hot-pink helmet topped with a camera that would, for about an hour at a time, capture everything she Visit Page
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The Smartphone Kids Are Not All Right
I did not know this at the time, but apparently my children were part of a generation of guinea pigs. “It’s as though we sent Gen Z to grow up on Mars when we gave Visit Page
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THE FADING MEMORIES OF YOUTH
You might think you remember taking a trip to Disneyland when you were 18 months old, or that time you had chickenpox when you were 2—but you almost certainly don’t. However real they may seem Visit Page
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on the psychology of erectile dysfunction, STEM engagement in informal learning environments, leveraging decision science, rethinking attentional habits, and much more. Visit Page
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A Paradigm Shift in How Scientists Study Kids
There is an open secret in the study of child development: Most of what we think we know about how babies develop is actually based on a specific subset of kids—those born to families from Visit Page
