Highlights • Ambiguity in infant behavior may hinder our understanding of the infant mind. •
fMRI can tap into internal representations that are difficult to access. • Awake infant fMRI …

Experiences are stored in the mind as discrete mental units, or ‘events,’ which influence—and
are influenced by—attention, learning, and memory. In this way, the notion of an ‘event’ is …

The hippocampus is essential for human memory. The protracted maturation of memory
capacities from infancy through early childhood 2–4 is thus often attributed to hippocampal …

How infants experience the world is fundamental to understanding their cognition and
development. A key principle of adult experience is that, despite receiving continuous sensory …

Thousands of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have provided important
insight into the human brain. However, only a handful of these studies tested infants while …

Young infants learn about the world by overtly shifting their attention to perceptually salient
events. In adults, attention recruits several brain regions spanning the frontal and parietal …

Vision develops rapidly during infancy, yet how visual cortex is organized during this period
is unclear. In particular, it is unknown whether functional maps that organize the mature …

Adult cognitive neuroscience has guided the study of human brain development by identifying
regions associated with cognitive functions at maturity. The activity, connectivity, and …

We experience the world in terms of both (continuous) time and (discrete) events, but time
seems especially primitive—since we cannot perceive events without an underlying temporal …

Millions of people worldwide have health conditions arising from altered brain development.
Treatments for these conditions must be optimized through mechanistic understanding from …