Young children’s screen time is increasing, raising concerns about its negative impact on language development, particularly vocabulary. However, digital media is used in a variety of ways, which likely differentially impact language development. Instead of asking ‘how much’ screen time, the focus should be on how digital media is used. Read Full Article (External Site) […]

How can we validate tests for consciousness beyond healthy adult humans? Bayne and colleagues propose the ‘iterative natural kind strategy’ (INKS) [1]. INKS begins by taking seriously all tests with at least some face validity rather than restricting our attention to a small subset of tests that antecedently pass stringent requirements of validation. We then […]

What entities are conscious and how could we ever know? We recently provided a framework for developing validated tests for consciousness (‘C-tests’): the Iterative Natural Kind Strategy (INKS) [1]. Brown and colleagues [2] raise some important questions for the INKS approach, although we are not sure how different their answers to those questions are from […]