The Advantages of Being Helpless
Publication : Scientific American Mind, February 2010
Topic : Prefrontal / Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Relevant Papers : Cognition without control: when a little frontal lobe goes a long way (2009) and Developmental change and the nature of learning in childhood (2007).
Featured in : Wired, The Atlantic Monthly, MindHacks, American Scientist, National Post
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Why Johnny Can’t Name His Colors
Publication : Scientific American Mind, July 2010
Topic : Color Learning, Facilitating Verbal Category Acquisition
Relevant Paper : The Effects of Feature-Label-Order and their Implications for Symbolic Learning (2010)
Featured in: Discover, MindHacks, Open Anthology
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The Defenestration of Cookie (5-Part Series)
Publication : Scientopia, August 2010
Topic : Delay of Gratification, Self-Control, Vocabulary Development
Relevant Paper : Delay of gratification: Strategic learning or cognitive control? (in preparation)
Featured in : 3QuarksDaily, MindHacks
A Thinking Machine : On Metaphors for Mind
Publication : Scientopia, August 2010
Topic : Theoretical approaches to language
Relevant Paper : Computing Machinery and Understanding (2010)
Featured in: PhilPapers, BigThink
The Development of Causal Reasoning : On Optimal Search in the A-not-B task
Publication : Scientopia, August 2010
Topic : A-not-B task, cognitive development, learning
Relevant Paper : Learning to explore the world through its statistics: Infants’ visual search in the A-not-B task (under review)
The Knobe Effect
Publication : Scientopia, October 2010
Topic : Analogy, metaphor, prediction in language, corpus linguistics
Relevant Paper : Running Down the Clock: the Role of Expectation in our Understanding of Time and Motion
Featured in: 3QuarksDaily, MindHacks
