Quotes by Judy DeLoache

“Theyre funny, quite funny to watch, but we think that they also tell us something important about early development. Its a very vivid demonstration that things that are so fundamental to the behavior of adults or older children can really go dramatically awry when youve got a very immature brain underlying the behavior.”

“We are the symbolic species. Theres really nothing that distinguishes us more from other creatures than our very flexible, creative use of different kinds of symbols and its also what underlies our enormous cognitive power, because were not limited to just learning about the world through direct experience with the world. We can learn about it through what somebody else tells us, through pictures, through maps, through videos, through a whole host of different kinds of symbolic representations. So what we know is just hugely expanded by the fact that we can use different kinds of symbols, so this is clearly a very important aspect of the development of any human child.”