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Regine Cassandra Lau; Peter J. Anderson; Susan Gathercole; Joshua F. Wiley; Megan Spencer-Smith – Child Development, 2025
Most cognitive training programs are adaptive, despite limited direct evidence that this maximizes children's outcomes. This randomized controlled trial evaluated working memory training with difficulty of activities presented using adaptive, self-select, or stepwise compared with an active control. At baseline, immediately, and 6-months…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Children, Thinking Skills
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Nielsen, Mark; Mushin, Ilana; Tomaselli, Keyan; Whiten, Andrew – Child Development, 2016
This study explored how overimitation and collaboration interact in 3- to 6-year-old children in Westernized (N = 48 in Experiment 1; N = 26 in Experiment 2) and Indigenous Australian communities (N = 26 in Experiment 2). Whether working in pairs or on their own rates of overimitation did not differ. However, when the causal functions of modeled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Young Children, Cultural Differences