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Category: Human Development and Cognitive Sciences

  • Three Ages, Three Ways of Thinking

    Three Ages, Three Ways of Thinking

    What can children teach us about artificial intelligence, and what can AI teach us about human development? When people talk about AI, it’s easy to slip into the idea that “intelligence” is one thing you either have a lot of or a little of. Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley) argues that there isn’t one single, all-purpose…

  • Searching for Autism in our Social Brain

    All animals need to know and communicate with their own, so evolution has developed in every brain the ways we all recognize and socialize with each other. But while other brains are social – no other brain is as social, or can do what the human brain can – and as far as science knows…

  • Impact of Early Life Deprivation

    Unlike most other animals, much of human brain development and maturation occurs after birth, a process that continues into early adulthood. This unusual pattern allows for greater influences of environment and culture on the emergence of the adult mind. This series of programs from the recent CARTA symposium addresses the interactive contributions of nature and…