What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One-year-olds watching cartoon characters help each other don’t necessarily expect a helper to also help new characters, suggesting that infants assume prosocial behavior is based on relationships rather than innate dispositions. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/6bTH50YPGUo

Paper out on 18 years of great ape cognition research, including our results showing that understanding others’ informedness is limited in apes. Dataset: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Previous findings: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Opinion: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...