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Halford, Graeme S.; Andrews, Glenda; Wilson, William H.; Phillips, Steven – Cognitive Development, 2012
Acquisition of relational knowledge is a core process in cognitive development. Relational knowledge is dynamic and flexible, entails structure-consistent mappings between representations, has properties of compositionality and systematicity, and depends on binding in working memory. We review three types of computational models relevant to…
Descriptors: Computation, Models, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Fletcher, Grace E.; Warneken, Felix; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2012
We compared the performance of 3- and 5-year-old children with that of chimpanzees in two tasks requiring collaboration via complementary roles. In both tasks, children and chimpanzees were able to coordinate two complementary roles with peers and solve the problem cooperatively. This is the first experimental demonstration of the coordination of…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Learning Activities, Cooperation, Cognitive Processes
Chan, Angel; Meints, Kerstin; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2010
Act-out and intermodal preferential looking (IPL) tasks were administered to 67 English children aged 2-0, 2-9 and 3-5 to assess their comprehension of canonical SVO transitive word order with both familiar and novel verbs. Children at 3-5 and at 2-9 showed evidence of comprehending word order in both verb conditions and both tasks, although…
Descriptors: Verbs, Familiarity, Word Order, Child Language
Mar, Raymond A.; Tackett, Jennifer L.; Moore, Chris – Cognitive Development, 2010
Exposure to different forms of narrative media may influence children's development of theory-of-mind. Because engagement with fictional narratives provides one with information about the social world, and possibly draws upon theory-of-mind processes during comprehension, exposure to storybooks, movies, and television may influence theory-of-mind…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Childrens Television, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Meins, Elizabeth; Fernyhough, Charles – Cognitive Development, 2007
Preschoolers' understanding that an object can be accurately described using two different non-synonymous words was investigated using a task in which children (N=36) had to judge which of two animals had provided correct adjectival labels for a series of pictures. For some pictures, only one animal provided a correct adjective, for some both…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Animals, Preschool Children, Task Analysis
Kliegel, Matthias; Jager, Theodor – Cognitive Development, 2007
The present study investigated event-based prospective memory in five age groups of preschoolers (i.e., 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds). Applying a laboratory-controlled prospective memory procedure, the data showed that event-based prospective memory performance improves across the preschool years, at least between 3 and 6 years of age. However,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Intention, Preschool Children, Young Children
Eisenberg, Nancy; Michalik, Nicole; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Hofer, Claire; Kupfer, Anne; Valiente, Carlos; Liew, Jeffrey; Cumberland, Amanda; Reiser, Mark – Cognitive Development, 2007
The relations of children's (n=214 at Time 1; M age=6 years at Time 1) dispositional sympathy to adult-reported and behavioral measures of effortful control (EC) and impulsivity were examined in a longitudinal study including five assessments, each two years apart. Especially for boys, relatively high levels of EC and growth in EC were related to…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Self Control, Males, Longitudinal Studies
Becker, Joe – Cognitive Development, 2006
Neurological research has demonstrated that brain activity in animals originally dedicated to the production and regulation of physical activity can be decoupled from that physical activity. Furthermore, animals can use the brain activity in this new condition to achieve particular results such as moving a cursor on a screen. These findings are…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Brain, Animals, Piagetian Theory
Carlson, Stephanie M.; Wang, Tiffany S. – Cognitive Development, 2007
This research investigated the relation between individual differences in inhibitory control and emotion regulation. Preschool children (N=53) ages 4-6 (M=5; 0) were assessed on brief batteries of inhibitory control of prepotent responses and emotion regulation. Individual differences in inhibitory control were significantly correlated with…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Verbal Ability, Individual Differences, Self Control
Liebermann, Dana; Giesbrecht, Gerald F.; Muller, Ulrich – Cognitive Development, 2007
The goal of the present study was to examine the contribution of executive function (EF) and social cognition to individual differences in emotion regulation (ER) in preschool children. Sixty 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children were administered a battery of EF tasks, two theory of mind tasks, a measure of verbal ability, and an ER task. In addition,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Social Cognition, Verbal Ability, Cognitive Development
Engel, Susan – Cognitive Development, 2005
This paper advances the hypothesis that young children use narrative play and stories to construct two types of fiction, the worlds of "what is" and "what if." Heinz Werner's conceptualization of children's spheres of reality, in which actions, symbols, and events are constructed in particular ways, is used as a theoretical framework for…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Young Children, Play, Narration

Jones, Susan S.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Reviews current research on children's concepts and categories that reflects a growing consensus that nonperceptual knowledge is central to concepts and determines category membership, whereas perceptual knowledge is peripheral in concepts and only a rough guide to category membership. Argues that there is no compelling basis in theory or in data…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education