Social vision is a branch of vision science investigating the visual processing of socially relevant stimuli, primarily people. The focus of this research has recently moved from individuals (faces/bodies and their actions) to groups (two faces/bodies and their interactions). This new focus has revealed that the visual system is particularly sensitive to information that signals […]

Abstract Prediction-based accounts of language acquisition have the potential to explain several different effects in child language acquisition and adult language processing. However, evidence regarding the developmental predictions of such accounts is mixed. Here, we consider several predictions of these accounts in two large-scale developmental studies of syntactic priming of the English dative alternation. Study […]

Humans often pursue idiosyncratic goals that appear remote from functional ends, including information gain. We suggest that this is valuable because goals (even prima facie foolish or unachievable ones) contain structured information that scaffolds thinking and planning. By evaluating hypotheses and plans with respect to their goals, humans can discover new ideas that go beyond […]