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Rowland, Caroline F.; Chang, Franklin; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Cognition, 2012
Structural priming paradigms have been influential in shaping theories of adult sentence processing and theories of syntactic development. However, until recently there have been few attempts to provide an integrated account that explains both adult and developmental data. The aim of the present paper was to begin the process of integration by…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Sentences, Verbs
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Simmering, Vanessa R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The change detection task has been used in dozens of studies with adults to measure visual working memory capacity. Two studies have recently tested children in this task, suggesting a gradual increase in capacity from 5 years to adulthood. These results contrast with findings from an infant looking paradigm suggesting that capacity reaches…
Descriptors: Evidence, Infants, Program Effectiveness, Short Term Memory
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von Helversen, Bettina; Mata, Rui; Olsson, Henrik – Developmental Psychology, 2010
The authors investigated the ability of 9- to 11-year-olds and of adults to use similarity-based and rule-based processes as a function of task characteristics in a task that can be considered either a categorization task or a multiple-cue judgment task, depending on the nature of the criterion (binary vs. continuous). Both children and adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classification, Cues, Children
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Castel, Alan D.; Humphreys, Kathryn L.; Lee, Steve S.; Galvan, Adriana; Balota, David A.; McCabe, David P. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Although attentional control and memory change considerably across the life span, no research has examined how the ability to strategically remember important information (i.e., value-directed remembering) changes from childhood to old age. The present study examined this in different age groups across the life span (N = 320, 5-96 years old). A…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Memory, Attention
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Apperly, Ian A.; Samson, Dana; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
There is strong evidence that developments in children's theory of mind (ToM) at 3-4 years are related to developments in language and executive function. However, these relationships might exist for 2 reasons. First, language and executive function might be necessary for the mature ToM abilities that children are in the process of developing.…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Language Role, Cognitive Development, Children
Smith, Bridgett Pressley – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Education is a major focal point of individual justice within a free society as well as a central point of human capital for the world. This study compared the cognitive and personal developmental levels of community college students enrolled in developmental-level mathematics courses to students enrolled in college-level mathematics courses. In…
Descriptors: College Students, Human Capital, Marital Status, Community Colleges
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Eshet-Alkalai, Yoram; Chajut, Eran – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
The expansion of digital technologies and the rapid changes they undergo through time face users with new cognitive, social, and ergonomic challenges that they need to master in order to perform effectively. In recent years, following empirical reports on performance differences between different age-groups, there is a debate in the research…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Information Skills, Cognitive Development