Self and social cognition
Understanding your own actions and judgments, and the minds of other people.
7 problemsLanguage and development
How cognitive abilities and language develop.
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Reading and mathematics
How reading and arithmetic develop, and why persistent learning difficulties arise.
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How does the brain combine senses and build fluent speech?
23 problemsReading and numbers
Persistent reading and arithmetic difficulties raise different questions about learning and development.
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19 totalLanguage acquisition
Children build language abilities from experience while their brains are developing. How do learning, prior capacities, and interaction produce that transformation?
Developmental stuttering
Stuttering often begins while speech is developing, and many children later recover. What explains its onset and different developmental paths?
Odor-mixture perception
A blend can smell like its ingredients or like a new odor. What determines which percept emerges?
Sense of agency
We feel that our actions cause events. How do prediction and observed regularities combine to produce that feeling?
Body ownership
Vision and touch can make a rubber hand feel like your own. Which circuit processes produce this bodily attribution?
Metacognition
Choosing an answer and judging whether it is right are different tasks. Which brain computations produce that second judgment?