The special issue that will include review, opinion, and empirical pieces illuminating the status of current knowledge on social contingency. The key focus of the social issue are mechanisms underlying the effects of social contingency on learning and their scope. The issue will highlight perspectives from social and language development, animal congition, social robotics, neuroscience, and more. 

Field survey on methods is a review paper that compares and bridges different operational defitions of social contingency, different experimental manipulations, and other methods that have been used to study the effects of social contingency on learning. They key goal of this survey is to integrate methodological knowledge in social contingency research.

We keep a library of empirical and theoretical papers on social contingency. This is continuously updated list, orgaized by subfields. These papers include investigations of turn-taking, face-to-face interactions, social reciprocity, social synchrony, primary intersubjectivity, joint engagement, parental responsivity, parental sensitivity, social reciprocity, still-face paradigms, and many more.

These multi-method, multi-site investigations will commense after we integrate existing knowledge and identify key new directions. Our goal is to leverage interdisciplinary expertise of consortium members and build a comprehensive view of how social contingency influences learning across domains, cultures, species, and different stages of development.