Cognition & AI
Your Baby Is Recruiting Your Eyes
Joint attention turns looking into a shared problem-solving loop. Here’s what infant brains, social robots, and a cardboard marble run reveal.
Tag: Joint Attention
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Cognition & AI
Nobody Learns Alone
Peer learning isn't a nice pedagogical bonus — it's load-bearing for cognition. New neuroscience shows what the socially interactive brain is actually doing, and why multi-agent AI isn't even close to replicating it.
Ethics & Society
When Your Child's Best Friend Is an Algorithm
Attachment theory tells us that who children bond with shapes their development for life. Now they're bonding with machines. The science is fascinating. The ethics are largely unsettled.
Ethics & Society
Social Learning Built Human Cognition. AI Is Taking Notes.
Children's brains are primed for social learning — joint attention, contingent responses, imitation. AI tutors are now being designed to engage exactly those mechanisms. The science is compelling. The ethical questions are largely unasked.