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Bialystok, Ellen – Developmental Psychology, 2010
In 3 experiments, a total of 151 monolingual and bilingual 6-year-old children performed similarly on measures of language and cognitive ability; however, bilinguals solved the global-local and trail-making tasks more rapidly than monolinguals. This bilingual advantage was found not only for the traditionally demanding conditions (incongruent…
Descriptors: Children, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Cognitive Processes
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Rileigh, Kathryn K.; Odom, Penelope B. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Study found that auditory experience has an indirect influence on rhythm perception, but auditory involvement during the task does not. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Deafness
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Ellis, Ann E.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
A sequential-touching task was used to investigate whether 14-month-old infants can rapidly change how they categorize a set of objects, recognizing new groupings of objects they had previously categorized in a different way. When presented with a collection of objects that could be categorized by shape (balls vs. blocks) or material (soft vs.…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Sequential Approach, Dimensional Preference