There’s little evidence around occasional light drinking during pregnancy and how it may affect a developing fetus. However, since a safe threshold has not been established, erring on the side of caution is a good idea. While the developmental problems linked with FASD and FAS are the result...
When a social robot informs children about its lack of human psychological capacities and machine status, this decreases children's feelings of (a) closeness toward and (b) trust in the robot as compared to when the robot does not provide such information. Based on Van Straten et al.’s ...
Transparency about the WOZ set-up may affect at least five concepts relevant to children’s perception of robots as social, mental, and moral others. First, transparent teleoperation may encourage children to think of a robot as an object rather than an ‘other’, thus affecting their perception...
This suggests that the association does not simply reflect the broader dimensional constructs of either language or domain-general higher-level cognitive abilities. There is much still to be understood regarding the links between verbal WM and reading. The potential role of more specific phonological ...