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Direct linkAmanda C. Brandone; Wyntre Stout – Child Development, 2024
As they learn to navigate the social world, children construct frameworks to interpret others' behavior. The present studies examined two such frameworks: a mentalistic framework, which construes behavior as driven by internal mental states; and a normative framework, which presumes people act in accordance with social norms. Participants included…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Behavior Theories, Childrens Attitudes
Amandine Van Rinsveld; Christine Schiltz – Child Development, 2025
Acquiring robust semantic representations of numbers is crucial for math achievement. However, the learning stage where magnitude becomes automatically elicited by number symbols (i.e., digits from 1 to 9) remains unknown due to the difficulty to measure automatic semantic processing. We used a frequency-tagging EEG paradigm targeting automatic…
Descriptors: Brain, Numbers, Semantics, Cognitive Processes
Sagana Vijayarajah; Margaret L. Schlichting – Child Development, 2025
Despite substantial improvements to memory precision in childhood, the neural mechanisms underlying these changes remain unclear. Here, 40 children (7-9 years; 22 females, 18 males; majority White) and 42 adults (24-35 years; 22 females, 20 males; majority White) modulated their approaches to memory formation--focusing on the specific details to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Brain, Accuracy
Alison E. Calentino; Nathan M. Hager; Elise M. Adams; Aline K. Szenczy; Lindsay Dickey; Autumn Kujawa; Greg Hajcak; Brady D. Nelson; Daniel N. Klein – Child Development, 2025
The late positive potential (LPP), an event-related potential reflecting affective processing, may exhibit developmental shifts in magnitude and scalp location. In the present longitudinal study, 501 youth (47.3% female; 89.4% White; 12.0% Hispanic) completed the emotion interrupt task to elicit the LPP to neutral, positive, and negative images at…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Children, Adolescents
Daniil Serko; Julia Leonard; Azzurra Ruggeri – Child Development, 2025
Adjusting practice to different goals and characteristics is key to learning, but its development remains unclear. Across 2 preregistered experiments, 190 4-to-8-year-olds (106 female; mostly White; data collection: December 2021-September 2022) and 31 adults played an easy and a difficult game, then chose one to practice before a test on either…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Games
Elisabeth C. McLane; S. Kyle Hatcher; Diana Selmeczy – Child Development, 2025
Prioritizing what information to learn based on value is a critical developmental skill. Across two studies, value-based memory was assessed predominately in White children aged 6- to 7-years-old and 9- to 10-years-old using a nationwide sample collected between 2020 and 2023. Children learned cue-target associations worth varying point values.…
Descriptors: Memory, Learning Strategies, Whites, Children
Dashiell D. Sacks; Viviane Valdes; Carol L. Wilkinson; April R. Levin; Charles A. Nelson; Michelle Bosquet Enlow – Child Development, 2025
Aperiodic electroencephalography (EEG) activity is hypothesized to index biological mechanisms that underpin brain functioning. This longitudinal study characterized the developmental trajectories of the aperiodic slope (i.e., aperiodic exponent) and offset from infancy to 7 years of age in a US community sample (N = 391, 46.5% female,…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Child Development
Lily Dicken; Thomas Suddendorf; Adam Bulley; Muireann Irish; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Australian children aged 6-9 years (N = 120, 71 females; data collected in 2021-2022) were tasked with remembering the locations of 1, 3, 5, and 7 targets hidden under 25 cups on different trials. In the critical test phase, children were provided with a limited number of tokens to allocate across trials, which they could use to mark target…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Task Analysis
Andrew Lynn; John Maule; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2024
Children (N = 103, 4-9 years, 59 females, 84% White, c. 2019) completed visual processing, visual feature integration (color, luminance, motion), and visual search tasks. Contrast sensitivity and feature search improved with age similarly for luminance and color-defined targets. Incidental feature integration improved more with age for…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Age Differences, Light, Color
Abbondanza, Filippo; Dale, Philip S.; Wang, Carol A.; Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna E.; Toseeb, Umar; Koomar, Tanner S.; Wigg, Karen G.; Feng, Yu; Price, Kaitlyn M.; Kerr, Elizabeth N.; Guger, Sharon L.; Lovett, Maureen W.; Strug, Lisa J.; van Bergen, Elsje; Dolan, Conor V.; Tomblin, J. Bruce; Moll, Kristina; Schulte-Körne, Gerd; Neuhoff, Nina; Warnke, Andreas; Fisher, Simon E.; Barr, Cathy L.; Michaelson, Jacob J.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Snowling, Margaret J.; Hulme, Charles; Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Pennell, Craig E.; Newbury, Dianne F.; Stein, John; Talcott, Joel B.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Paracchini, Silvia – Child Development, 2023
Handedness has been studied for association with language-related disorders because of its link with language hemispheric dominance. No clear pattern has emerged, possibly because of small samples, publication bias, and heterogeneous criteria across studies. Non-right-handedness (NRH) frequency was assessed in N = 2503 cases with reading and/or…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Language Impairments, Reading Difficulties
Ngo, Chi T.; Newcombe, Nora S.; Olson, Ingrid R. – Child Development, 2019
Episodic memory relies on discriminating among similar elements of episodes. Mnemonic discrimination is relatively poor at age 4, and then improves markedly. We investigated whether motivation to encode items with fine-grain resolution would change this picture of development, using an engaging computer-administered memory task in which a bird ate…
Descriptors: Memory, Mnemonics, Cognitive Processes, Age Differences
Blankenship, Tashauna L.; Kibbe, Melissa M. – Child Development, 2023
The ability to use knowledge to guide the completion of goals is a critical cognitive skill, but 3-year-olds struggle to complete goals that require multiple steps. This study asked whether 3-year-olds could benefit from "plan chunking" to complete multistep goals. Thirty-two U.S. children (range = 35.75-46.59 months; 18 girls; 9 white,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cognitive Ability, Memory, Maps
Baer, Carolyn; Odic, Darko – Child Development, 2022
Strategic collaboration according to the law of comparative advantage involves dividing tasks based on the relative capabilities of group members. Three experiments (N = 405, primarily White and Asian, 45% female, collected 2016-2019 in Canada) examined how this strategy develops in children when dividing cognitive labor. Children divided…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Group Dynamics, Foreign Countries
Kvavilashvili, Lia; Ford, Ruth M. – Child Development, 2022
In a cross-sectional study, 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old-children and adults (N = 144, 86 females, predominantly White U.K. sample of lower-middle to middle-class background) were interviewed about their experiences of involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) and semantic mind-pops that come to mind unintentionally. Although some age differences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Memory, Cognitive Processes
Delagneau, Garance; Twilhaar, E. Sabrina; Testa, Renee; van Veen, Sarit; Anderson, Peter – Child Development, 2023
This meta-analysis examined the relationship between prenatal maternal stress and/or anxiety and the outcomes of children aged 3 months to 9 years. Of the 8754 studies published before June 2021 that were synthesized, 17 conducted in Western countries were included in the meta-analysis (N[subscript total] = 23,307; M[subscript males] 54%;…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Anxiety, Stress Variables, Cognitive Ability
