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Eileen F. Sullivan; Ran Wei; Shahria Kakon; Talat Shama; Fahmida Tofail; William A. Petri; Rashidul Haque; Charles A. Nelson III – Child Development, 2025
Identifying the neural processes that underlie the association between children's early adverse experiences and cognitive development could inform more effective intervention strategies. The goal of the current study (data collected 2015-2021) was to examine relations among early experiences at 6 months, electroencephalography (EEG) theta power at…
Descriptors: Trauma, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Intervention
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Bettoni, Roberta; Addabbo, Margaret; Bulf, Hermann; Macchi Cassia, Viola – Child Development, 2021
Infant research is providing accumulating evidence that number-space mappings appear early in development. Here, a Posner cueing paradigm was used to investigate the neural mechanisms underpinning the attentional bias induced by nonsymbolic numerical cues in 9-month-old infants (N = 32). Event-related potentials and saccadic reaction time were…
Descriptors: Infants, Spatial Ability, Neurology, Attention
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Danovitch, Judith H.; Fisher, Megan; Schroder, Hans; Hambrick, David Z.; Moser, Jason – Child Development, 2019
This study explored developmental and individual differences in intellectual humility (IH) among 127 children ages 6-8. IH was operationalized as children's assessment of their knowledge and willingness to delegate scientific questions to experts. Children completed measures of IH, theory of mind, motivational framework, and intelligence, and…
Descriptors: Neurology, Physiology, Social Cognition, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Flournoy, John C.; Pfeifer, Jennifer H.; Moore, William E.; Tackman, Allison M.; Masten, Carrie L.; Mazziotta, John C.; Iacoboni, Marco; Dapretto, Mirella – Child Development, 2016
Reactivity to others' emotions not only can result in empathic concern (EC), an important motivator of prosocial behavior, but can also result in personal distress (PD), which may hinder prosocial behavior. Examining neural substrates of emotional reactivity may elucidate how EC and PD differentially influence prosocial behavior. Participants…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Empathy, Motivation, Prosocial Behavior
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Lahat, Ayelet; Helwig, Charles C.; Zelazo, Philip David – Child Development, 2013
The neurocognitive development of moral and conventional judgments was examined. Event-related potentials were recorded while 24 adolescents (13 years) and 30 young adults (20 years) read scenarios with 1 of 3 endings: moral violations, conventional violations, or neutral acts. Participants judged whether the act was acceptable or unacceptable…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Moral Values, Brain, Cognitive Measurement
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DiPietro, Janet A.; Kivlighan, Katie T.; Costigan, Kathleen A.; Rubin, Suzanne E.; Shiffler, Dorothy E.; Henderson, Janice L.; Pillion, Joseph P. – Child Development, 2010
Fetal neurobehavioral development was modeled longitudinally using data collected at weekly intervals from 24 to 38 weeks gestation in a sample of 112 healthy pregnancies. Predictive associations between 3 measures of fetal neurobehavioral functioning and their developmental trajectories to neurological maturation in the first weeks after birth…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Intervals, Pregnancy, Longitudinal Studies
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Best, John R.; Miller, Patricia H. – Child Development, 2010
This review article examines theoretical and methodological issues in the construction of a developmental perspective on executive function (EF) in childhood and adolescence. Unlike most reviews of EF, which focus on preschoolers, this review focuses on studies that include large age ranges. It outlines the development of the foundational…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability
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Shonkoff, Jack P.; Bales, Susan Nall – Child Development, 2011
Science has an important role to play in advising policymakers on crafting effective responses to social problems that affect the development of children. This article describes lessons learned from a multiyear, working collaboration among neuroscientists, developmental psychologists, pediatricians, economists, and communications researchers who…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Psychologists, Scientific Concepts, Developmental Psychology
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Obradovic, Jelena; Bush, Nicole R.; Stamperdahl, Juliet; Adler, Nancy E.; Boyce, W. Thomas – Child Development, 2010
This study examined the direct and interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional and cognitive development in three hundred and thirty-eight 5- to 6-year-old children. Neurobiological stress reactivity was measured as respiratory sinus arrhythmia and salivary cortisol responses to social, cognitive, sensory, and…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Cognitive Development, Stress Variables, Neurology