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Harms, Madeline B.; Shannon Bowen, Katherine E.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D. – Developmental Science, 2018
Children who experience severe early life stress show persistent deficits in many aspects of cognitive and social adaptation. Early stress might be associated with these broad changes in functioning because it impairs general learning mechanisms. To explore this possibility, we examined whether individuals who experienced abusive caregiving in…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Anxiety, Early Experience, Cognitive Processes
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MacKenzie, Heather; Graham, Susan A.; Curtin, Suzanne – Developmental Science, 2011
We examined whether 12-month-old infants privilege words over other linguistic stimuli in an associative learning task. Sixty-four infants were presented with sets of either word-object, communicative sound-object, or consonantal sound-object pairings until they habituated. They were then tested on a "switch" in the sound to determine whether they…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Infants, Associative Learning