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Emily Mather; Shane Lindsay – Infant and Child Development, 2025
There is widespread evidence that children display a mutual exclusivity response upon encountering new words. Children displaying this behaviour will select a novel, name-unknown object in response to a novel label, rather than a familiar, name-known object. The mutual exclusivity response has been viewed as a means of fast-mapping…
Descriptors: Children, Memory, Retention (Psychology), Vocabulary Development
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Van Waelvelde, Hilde; Vanden Wyngaert, Karsten; Mariën, Tineke; Baeyens, Dieter; Calders, Patrick – Infant and Child Development, 2020
A beneficial effect of physical activity on cognitive functioning is supposed, although to a certain extent, literature remains inconsistent. Furthermore, the mediating effect of aerobic fitness on this association remains unclear, especially in children. This review presents data from 26 articles on the relation between aerobic fitness and…
Descriptors: Children, Physical Fitness, Exercise, Executive Function