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Robert Plomin Receives Grawemeyer Award for Behavioral Genetics Research
APS Fellow Robert Plomin has received the 2020 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology for his research on how DNA shapes personality.
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Charting how the time parents spend with kids changes as they grow up
There is a saying about kids passed down from one generation of parents to another: “When they are little, your arms hurt. When they are older, your heart hurts.” This is not just folk wisdom
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Hinshaw Receives Ruane Prize for ADHD Research
APS Fellow Stephen Hinshaw has received the 2019 Ruane Prize for his work on the developmental psychopathology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Children’s Preference for Learning Could Help Create Curious AI
The strategies children use to search for rewards in their environment could be used to create more sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence.
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Babies understand a fundamental aspect of counting long before they can say numbers out loud, according to researchers
When she was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, Jinjing Jenny Wang kept wondering: How do children learn to count? It’s so basic, “but when you think about the problem, it is really difficult,”
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The Ultimate Learning Machines
Last July, I went to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the blue-sky government research lab that helped to invent the computer and the internet. I was there, strange as it may seem, to
