Interoceptive Pathways to Social Connection: Insights from Affective Touch and Cardiac Signaling Abstract How do bodily states shape our capacity to connect with others and regulate emotions? This talk explores two complementary lines of research examining the role...
Dissociation between what convinces children, and the reasons they use to convince others From early on, children are sensitive to the strength of the arguments they are exposed to. By the age of 5 at least, they are also able to produce reasons adapted to the...
Geometric shape representations in human adults have syntactic structure Recent research suggests that humans use language-like mental representations for many classes of stimuli, from auditory sequences to visual shapes. However, evidence has been largely indirect,...
This presentation introduces the research program of Humanoid Developmental Robotics, which employs a synthetic, embodied approach to study early sensorimotor development. We begin by presenting methods for extracting infant spontaneous movements from 2D and 3D video...
Learning words form learner-directed registers When addressing language learners, adult L1 speakers modify their speech. The speech used with infants (infant-directed speech; IDS) and foreign-language learners (foreigner-directed speech; FDS) has been found to have...
