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View article: Human infants appreciate that information bears value for other individuals
Human infants appreciate that information bears value for other individuals Open
Humans' ability to recognize each other as seekers of information is crucial for effectively sharing knowledge, evaluating confidence, and reasoning about the role of knowledge in behavior. Here, we investigate the foundations of this 'epi…
View article: Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults
Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults Open
Do toddlers and adults engage in spontaneous Theory of Mind? This multi-lab collaboration examined whether 18- to 27-month-olds’ and adults’ anticipatory looks distinguish between two basic forms of epistemic states: knowledge and ignoranc…
View article: Adults Represent Others’ Logical Inferences Even When It Is Unnecessary
Adults Represent Others’ Logical Inferences Even When It Is Unnecessary Open
Successful social interactions require representing not only what others know, but also what they may deductively infer from evidence. For instance, to help deciding between two alternatives, we may just reveal the incorrect option, expect…
View article: In-depth immunochemical characterization of the serum antibody response using a dual-titration microspot assay
In-depth immunochemical characterization of the serum antibody response using a dual-titration microspot assay Open
Antigen specific humoral immunity can be characterized by the analysis of serum antibodies. While serological assays for the measurement of specific antibody levels are available, these are not quantitative in the biochemical sense. Yet, u…
View article: Early-emerging combinatorial thought: Human infants flexibly combine kind and quantity concepts
Early-emerging combinatorial thought: Human infants flexibly combine kind and quantity concepts Open
Combinatorial thought, or the ability to combine a finite set of concepts into a myriad of complex ideas and knowledge structures, is the key to the productivity of the human mind and underlies communication, science, technology, and art. …
View article: Flexible social monitoring as revealed by eye movements: Spontaneous mental state updating triggered by others’ unexpected actions
Flexible social monitoring as revealed by eye movements: Spontaneous mental state updating triggered by others’ unexpected actions Open
Successful interactions require not only representing others' mental states but also flexibly updating them, whenever one's original inferences may no longer hold. Such situations arise, for instance, when a partner's behavior is incongrue…
View article: Can 18-Month-Olds Revise Attributed Beliefs?
Can 18-Month-Olds Revise Attributed Beliefs? Open
Successful social interactions rely on flexibly tracking and revising others’ beliefs. These can be revised prospectively, new events leading to new beliefs, or retrospectively, when realizing that an attribution may have been incorrect. H…
View article: Developing a method for evaluating color changeover in a hot-runner multi-cavity injection mold
Developing a method for evaluating color changeover in a hot-runner multi-cavity injection mold Open
Quality control, which nowadays almost always involves the integration of online measurement methods into the production process, is of paramount importance for injection molding. Online pressure and temperature measurement is already wide…
View article: Combinatorial thought in infancy: Language processing reveals conceptual combination
Combinatorial thought in infancy: Language processing reveals conceptual combination Open
The unparalleled productivity of the human mind rests on our ability to combine a finite set of simple representations into an infinity of complex thoughts, a process often implemented in language. To investigate the developmental origins …
View article: Infants’ early understanding of different forms of negation
Infants’ early understanding of different forms of negation Open
How do infants acquire the meaning of abstract words expressing negation? ‘No’ is among the first uttered words and emerges around the age of one, nevertheless, it is a subject of intense debate when and how exactly infants start interpret…
View article: The Binding Landscape of Serum Antibodies: How Physical and Mathematical Concepts can Advance Systems Immunology
The Binding Landscape of Serum Antibodies: How Physical and Mathematical Concepts can Advance Systems Immunology Open
Antibodies constitute a major component of serum on protein mass basis. We also know that the structural diversity of these antibodies exceeds that of all other proteins in the body and they react with an immense number of molecular target…
View article: Author response: Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects
Author response: Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects Open
Article Figures and data Abstract Editor's evaluation Introduction Results Discussion Materials and methods Data availability References Decision letter Author response Article and author information Metrics Abstract Absence is a notion th…
View article: The origins of trust: Humans’ reliance on communicative cues supersedes firsthand experience during the second year of life
The origins of trust: Humans’ reliance on communicative cues supersedes firsthand experience during the second year of life Open
How do people learn about things that they have never perceived or inferred–like molecules, miracles or Marie‐Antoinette? For many thinkers, trust is the answer. Humans rely on communicated information, sometimes even when it contradicts b…
View article: The Origins of Trust: Humans’ Reliance on Communicative Cues Supersedes Firsthand Experience During the Second Year of Life
The Origins of Trust: Humans’ Reliance on Communicative Cues Supersedes Firsthand Experience During the Second Year of Life Open
How do people learn about things that they have never perceived or inferred—like molecules, miracles or Marie-Antoinette? For many thinkers, trust is the answer. Humans rely on communicated information, sometimes even when it contradicts b…
View article: Can infants adopt underspecified contents into attributed beliefs? Representational prerequisites of theory of mind
Can infants adopt underspecified contents into attributed beliefs? Representational prerequisites of theory of mind Open
Recent evidence suggests that young infants, as well as nonhuman apes, can anticipate others' behavior based on their false beliefs. While such behaviors have been proposed to be accounted by simple associations between agents, objects, an…
View article: Low Socioeconomic Status is a Risk Factor for Delay to Treatment and Mortality of Testicular Cancer Patients in Hungary. A Prospective Study
Low Socioeconomic Status is a Risk Factor for Delay to Treatment and Mortality of Testicular Cancer Patients in Hungary. A Prospective Study Open
Background . In Hungary, the mortality rate for testicular germ cell cancer (TGCC) is 7.6% which is significantly higher than the EU average. We prospectively evaluated the effect of socioeconomic status on patient delay, doctor’s delay, a…
View article: Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults
Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults Open
Do toddlers and adults engage in spontaneous Theory of Mind (ToM)? Evidence from anticipatory looking (AL) studies suggests that they do. But a growing body of failed replication studies raised questions about the paradigm’s suitability. I…
View article: Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects
Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects Open
Summary Absence is a notion that is usually captured by language-related concepts like zero or negation. Whether non-linguistic creatures encode similar thoughts is an open question, as everyday behavior marked by absence (of food, of soci…
View article: A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech
A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech Open
From the earliest months of life, infants prefer listening to and learn better from infant-directed speech (IDS) compared with adult-directed speech (ADS). Yet IDS differs within communities, across languages, and across cultures, both in …
View article: Great apes’ understanding of others’ beliefs in two manual search tasks
Great apes’ understanding of others’ beliefs in two manual search tasks Open
Humans are ultra-social: they spontaneously incorporate others’ mental states into their action-planning (Kaminski et al.,2008), and altercentric: their behavior is influenced by others’ perspectives, even perspectives irrelevant to their …
View article: Seeing the World From Others’ Perspective: 14-Month-Olds Show Altercentric Modulation Effects by Others’ Beliefs
Seeing the World From Others’ Perspective: 14-Month-Olds Show Altercentric Modulation Effects by Others’ Beliefs Open
Humans have a propensity to readily adopt others’ perspective, which often influences their behavior even when it seemingly should not. This altercentric influence has been widely studied in adults, yet we lack an understanding of its onto…
View article: Infants’ interpretation of information-seeking actions
Infants’ interpretation of information-seeking actions Open
Although infants can frequently observe others gathering information, it is an open question whether and how they make sense of such activities since the mental causes and intended effects of these are hidden and underdetermined by the ava…
View article: The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi‐laboratory study
The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi‐laboratory study Open
Determining the meanings of words requires language learners to attend to what other people say. However, it behooves a young language learner to simultaneously encode relevant non‐verbal cues, for example, by following the direction of th…
View article: Seeing the world from others’ perspective: 14-month-olds show altercentric modulation effects by others’ beliefs
Seeing the world from others’ perspective: 14-month-olds show altercentric modulation effects by others’ beliefs Open
Humans have a propensity to readily adopt others’ perspective, which often influences their behavior even when it seemingly should not. This altercentric influence has been widely studied in adults, yet we lack an understanding of its onto…
View article: The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-lab study
The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-lab study Open
Determining the meanings of words requires language learners to attend to what other people say. However, it behooves a young language learner to simultaneously attend to what other people attend to, for example, by following the direction…