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Feldman, Jacob – Cognition, 2012
Symbolic representation of environmental variables is a ubiquitous and often debated component of cognitive science. Yet notwithstanding centuries of philosophical discussion, the efficacy, scope, and validity of such representation has rarely been given direct consideration from a mathematical point of view. This paper introduces a quantitative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Probability, Cognitive Development, Measurement
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De Bruin, L. C.; Newen, A. – Cognition, 2012
The elicited-response false belief task has traditionally been considered as reliably indicating that children acquire an understanding of false belief around 4 years of age. However, recent investigations using spontaneous-response tasks suggest that false belief understanding emerges much earlier. This leads to a developmental paradox: if young…
Descriptors: Investigations, Preschool Children, Infants, Organizations (Groups)
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Schmidt, Marco F. H.; Rakoczy, Hannes; Tomasello, Michael – Cognition, 2012
To become cooperative members of their cultural groups, developing children must follow their group's social norms. But young children are not just blind norm followers, they are also active norm enforcers, for example, protesting and correcting when someone plays a conventional game the "wrong" way. In two studies, we asked whether young children…
Descriptors: Young Children, Norms, Child Development, Games
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Nardini, Marko; Thomas, Rhiannon L.; Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Braddick, Oliver J.; Atkinson, Janette – Cognition, 2009
Reorientation tasks, in which disoriented participants attempt to relocate objects using different visual cues, have previously been understood to depend on representing aspects of the global organisation of the space, for example its major axis for judgements based on geometry. Careful analysis of the visual information available for these tasks…
Descriptors: Cues, Spatial Ability, Task Analysis, Inferences
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Quinlan, Philip T.; van der Maas, Han L. J.; Jansen, Brenda R. J.; Booij, Olaf; Rendell, Mark – Cognition, 2007
The present paper re-appraises connectionist attempts to explain how human cognitive development appears to progress through a series of sequential stages. Models of performance on the Piagetian balance scale task are the focus of attention. Limitations of these models are discussed and replications and extensions to the work are provided via the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Models
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Balaban, Evan – Cognition, 2006
Biological contributions to cognitive development continue to be conceived predominantly along deterministic lines, with proponents of different positions arguing about the preponderance of gene-based versus experience-based influences that organize brain circuits irreversibly during prenatal or early postnatal life, and evolutionary influences…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Biology, Genetics, Evolution