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Preschool children's use of meta-talk to make rational collaborative decisions. [PDF]

open access: yesChild Dev, 2022
Abstract In collaborative decision‐making, partners compare reasons behind conflicting proposals through meta‐talk. We investigated UK‐based preschoolers’ (mixed socioeconomic status) use of meta‐talk (Data collection: 2018–2020). In Study 1, 5‐ and 7‐year‐old peer dyads (N = 128, 61 girls) heard conflicting claims about an animal from two informants ...
Hartwell K   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

From Human Child to Grey Parrot: Exploring a Common Model of Word Meaning Extension Across Species. [PDF]

open access: yesCogn Sci
Abstract Word meaning extension refers to the process by which a single word form develops multiple related meanings. Prior studies demonstrate that meaning extension at diverse timescales, from decades‐long historical change and to month‐long changes in child overextension, is accounted for by models grounded in conceptual relations across knowledge ...
Fishkin M, Chang S, Xu Y.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Weaker Natural Law Thesis

open access: yesRatio Juris, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 333-349, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Natural law theories affirm that it belongs to the nature of law to be apt to promote the common good or do something similar. I defend a weak version of this thesis according to which part of what constitutes something as a nondefective central case of a posited law is that it is apt to promote the common good. Just as the rules of Pictionary
Charles F. Capps
wiley   +1 more source

A Neural Dynamic Model of the Perceptual Grounding of Spatial and Movement Relations

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 10, October 2021., 2021
Abstract How does the human brain link relational concepts to perceptual experience? For example, a speaker may say “the cup to the left of the computer” to direct the listener's attention to one of two cups on a desk. We provide a neural dynamic account for both perceptual grounding, in which relational concepts enable the attentional selection of ...
Mathis Richter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Material as actor in the enactment of social norms: Engaging with a sociomaterial perspective in childhood studies to avoid the ‘traps of closure’

open access: yesChildren &Society, Volume 35, Issue 5, Page 694-707, September 2021., 2021
Abstract This article employs a sociomaterial perspective and explores how material artefacts take part in the enactment of social norms by analysing empirical examples from two different childhood studies projects in Norway. Drawing on interview data with tweens, (children aged 8–12), and observational data from an early education and care institution
Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the creator's intention helps 24‐ and 26‐month‐olds use picture mediated information as a guide for action

open access: yesInfant and Child Development, Volume 29, Issue 5, September/October 2020., 2020
Abstract Toddlers show high sensitivity to creator's intention when they interpret pictures. Previous research suggest that toddlers' performance can be facilitated in a picture comprehension task by making available the creator's intention that is, the social origin of picture‐creation.
Gerda Szalai, Katalin Egyed
wiley   +1 more source

The Sci-Fi Brain: Narratives in Neuroscience and Popular Culture

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2018
The connection between neuroscience, popular media and lay perceptions of the brain involves the framing of complex scientific processes and results through familiar cultural narratives and metaphors.
Åsa Alftberg, Peter Bengtsen
doaj   +1 more source

Judges as Bad Reviewers: Fair Use and Epistemological Humility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The future of fair use depends on whether judges act like bad reviewers, or whether they behave differently in interpreting challenged works than they do in almost every other aspect of judging.
Tushnet, Rebecca
core   +3 more sources

The Material Culture of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Dollhouses: Replication, Reproduction & Imitation

open access: yesArts
A number of collector’s cabinets known as pronk or luxury dollhouses were formed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by women in the Netherlands.
Michelle Moseley-Christian
doaj   +1 more source

Playing (with) Gestic Dolls in Mabou Mines DollHouse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article examines the gender discourses at play in Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell's production "Mabou Mines DollHouse," which re-imagines Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll House" as a literal dollhouse.
Jacqueline Taucar
core   +1 more source

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