Alison Gopnik, DPhil, is an American developmental psychologist, philosophy professor, and author. She is well-known for her theories on childhood development, causal learning, and theory of mind.
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The “elaborate detour” of having fun pays cognitive dividends.
“Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species,” says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire.
BrainMind Summit - Consciousness Day hosted at Stanford.
The future of artificial intelligence depends on designing computers that can think and explore as resourcefully as babies do.
Scientists may not even be asking the right questions.
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