Social Learning

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Communicative cues in the absence of a human interaction partner enhance 12-month-old infants' word learning. 
  • Face-to-face learning enhances the social transmission of information. 
  • The ontogeny of cumulative culture: Individual toddlers vary in faithful imitation and goal emulation 
  • Two- and 3-year-olds integrate linguistic and pedagogical cues in guiding inductive generalization and exploration. 
  • What I don’t know won’t hurt you: The relation between professed ignorance and later knowledge claims. 
  • Young children use pedagogical cues to modulate the strength of normative inferences.