Search Results - "Spelke, Elizabeth S."

Preverbal infants expect members of social groups to act alike by Powell, Lindsey J, Spelke, Elizabeth S

“…The short ontogenetic time courses of conformity and stereotyping, both evident in the preschool years, point to the possibility that a central component of…”
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Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions by Liu, Shari, Ullman, Tomer D., Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…Infants understand that people pursue goals, but how do they learn which goals people prefer? We tested whether infants solve this problem by inverting a…”
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Brief non-symbolic, approximate number practice enhances subsequent exact symbolic arithmetic in children by Hyde, Daniel C., Khanum, Saeeda, Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…•Brief practice with an approximate number task enhances arithmetic in young children.•Enhancements are specific to math, as they are not seen for a reading…”
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Education Enhances the Acuity of the Nonverbal Approximate Number System by Piazza, Manuela, Pica, Pierre, Izard, Véronique, Spelke, Elizabeth S., Dehaene, Stanislas

“…All humans share a universal, evolutionarily ancient approximate number system (ANS) that estimates and combines the numbers of objects in sets with…”
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Shared cultural knowledge: Effects of music on young children’s social preferences by Soley, Gaye, Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…Adults use cultural markers to discern the structure of the social landscape. Such markers may also influence the social preferences of young children, who…”
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Origins of the concepts cause, cost, and goal in prereaching infants by Liu, Shari, Brooks, Neon B., Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…We investigated the origins and interrelations of causal knowledge and knowledge of agency in 3-month-old infants, who cannot yet effect changes in the world…”
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Core knowledge by Spelke, Elizabeth S., Kinzler, Katherine D.

“…Human cognition is founded, in part, on four systems for representing objects, actions, number, and space. It may be based, as well, on a fifth system for…”
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native language of social cognition by Kinzler, Katherine D, Dupoux, Emmanuel, Spelke, Elizabeth S

“…What leads humans to divide the social world into groups, preferring their own group and disfavoring others? Experiments with infants and young children…”
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Representations of space, time, and number in neonates by de Hevia, Maria Dolores, Izard, Véronique, Coubart, Aurélie, Spelke, Elizabeth S., Streri, Arlette

“…A rich concept of magnitude—in its numerical, spatial, and temporal forms—is a central foundation of mathematics, science, and technology, but the origins and…”
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Newborn infants perceive abstract numbers by Izard, Véronique, Sann, Coralie, Spelke, Elizabeth S, Streri, Arlette

“…Although infants and animals respond to the approximate number of elements in visual, auditory, and tactile arrays, only human children and adults have been…”
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For 5-Month-Old Infants, Melodies Are Social by Mehr, Samuel A., Song, Lee Ann, Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…For 1 to 2 weeks, 5-month-old infants listened at home to one of two novel songs with identical lyrics and rhythms, but different melodies; the song was sung…”
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Foundations of cooperation in young children by Olson, Kristina R., Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…Observations and experiments show that human adults preferentially share resources with close relations, with people who have shared with them (reciprocity),…”
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Infants' Developing Understanding of Social Gaze by Beier, Jonathan S., Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…Young infants are sensitive to self-directed social actions, but do they appreciate the intentional, target-directed nature of such behaviors? The authors…”
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First-person action experience reveals sensitivity to action efficiency in prereaching infants by Skerry, Amy E., Carey, Susan E., Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…Do infants learn to interpret others’ actions through their own experience producing goal-directed action, or does some knowledge of others’ actions precede…”
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Social categories guide young children's preferences for novel objects by Shutts, Kristin, Banaji, Mahzarin R., Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…To whom do children look when deciding on their own preferences? To address this question, 3‐year‐old children were asked to choose between objects or…”
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Two randomized trials provide no consistent evidence for nonmusical cognitive benefits of brief preschool music enrichment by Mehr, Samuel A, Schachner, Adena, Katz, Rachel C, Spelke, Elizabeth S

“…Young children regularly engage in musical activities, but the effects of early music education on children's cognitive development are unknown. While some…”
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Mirror-image sensitivity and invariance in object and scene processing pathways by Dilks, Daniel D, Julian, Joshua B, Kubilius, Jonas, Spelke, Elizabeth S, Kanwisher, Nancy

“…Electrophysiological and behavioral studies in many species have demonstrated mirror-image confusion for objects, perhaps because many objects are vertically…”
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Core foundations of abstract geometry by Dillon, Moira R., Huang, Yi, Spelke, Elizabeth S.

“…Human adults from diverse cultures share intuitions about the points, lines, and figures of Euclidean geometry. Do children develop these intuitions by drawing…”
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Testing the role of symbols in preschool numeracy: An experimental computer-based intervention study by Hyde, Daniel C, Mou, Yi, Berteletti, Ilaria, Spelke, Elizabeth S, Dehaene, Stanislas, Piazza, Manuela

“…Numeracy is of critical importance for scholastic success and modern-day living, but the precise mechanisms that drive its development are poorly understood…”
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The Development of Language and Abstract Concepts: The Case of Natural Number by Condry, Kirsten F, Spelke, Elizabeth S

“…What are the origins of abstract concepts such as "seven," and what role does language play in their development? These experiments probed the natural number…”
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