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Playing make-believe can deprive kids of important developmental experiences
Dallas News: Pretend play is a charming activity. Children pretend that their living room is a restaurant where they prepare and serve food, or they imagine the tree outside is a castle. American parents serve
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Psychological Scientists Discuss Language Learning
APS convened a group of psychological scientists, linguists, and others in May in Boston, MA to discuss an American Academy of Arts & Sciences report on language learning.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring how children balance informativeness and ease of production when talking and how free choice influences the costs associated with searching for multiple objects.
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Suddenly Language: Lila R. Gleitman on the Evolution of an Innate Human Trait
Scientists have no hard evidence of how human language evolved, but Lila R. Gleitman illustrates some of the clues that can be gleaned from observing children as they develop their language skills.
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Lila Gleitman on Language Evolution
In the Fred A. Kavli Keynote Address at the 29th APS Annual Convention, APS Fellow Lila R.Gleitman shared her six decades of theoretical and empirical work on the remarkably sophisticated way that children acquire language. See the complete presentation.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring perceived misalignment between limb and body movement and links between schooling and children’s cognitive control.
