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Peer reviewedTrueswell, John C.; Sekerina, Irina; Hill, Nicole M.; Logrip, Marian L. – Cognition, 1999
Used head-mounted eye-tracking system to study kindergartners' and adults' moment-by-moment language processing ability as they responded to spoken instructions. Found that 5-year-olds did not take into account relevant discourse/pragmatic principles when resolving temporary syntactic ambiguities and showed little/no ability to revise initial…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedFairweather, Hugh – Cognition, 1976
Sex differences in cognitive skills, grouped into motor, spatial and linguistic areas, are assessed in relation to current theories of cerebral lateralization. Few convincing sex differences exist, either overall, or in interactions with functional localization. Qualifying criteria include age, birth order, culture, sex of experimenter and sex…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
