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Koepp, Andrew E.; Gershoff, Elizabeth T.; Castelli, Darla M.; Bryan, Amy E. – Developmental Science, 2022
Children's abilities to regulate their behaviors are critical for learning and development, yet researchers lack an objective, precise method for assessing children's behavioral regulation in their everyday environments such as their classrooms. This study tested a sensor-based approach to assess preschool children's behavioral regulation…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Self Control, Preschool Children, Measures (Individuals)
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Purcell, Catherine; Wann, John P.; Wilmut, Kate; Poulter, Damian – Developmental Science, 2012
Almost all locomotor animals are sensitive to optical expansion (visual looming) and for most animals this sensitivity is evident very early in their development. In humans there is evidence that responses to looming stimuli begin in the first 6 weeks of life, but here we demonstrate that as children become independent their perceptual acuity…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Visual Stimuli, Child Development, Visual Perception
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Annaz, Dagmara; Remington, Anna; Milne, Elizabeth; Coleman, Mike; Campbell, Ruth; Thomas, Michael S. C.; Swettenham, John – Developmental Science, 2010
Recent findings suggest that children with autism may be impaired in the perception of biological motion from moving point-light displays. Some children with autism also have abnormally high motion coherence thresholds. In the current study we tested a group of children with autism and a group of typically developing children aged 5 to 12 years of…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Discrimination, Motion, Cognitive Processes
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Robertson, Steven S.; Johnson, Sarah L. – Developmental Science, 2009
Does real time coupling between mental and physical activity early in development have functional significance? To address this question, we examined the habituation of visual attention and the subsequent response to change in two groups of 3-month-olds with different patterns of movement-attention coupling. In suppressors, the typical decrease in…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Attention, Habituation, Infants
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Brand, Rebecca J.; Shallcross, Wendy L. – Developmental Science, 2008
In two studies, we investigated infants' preference for infant-directed (ID) action or "motionese" (Brand, Baldwin & Ashburn, 2002) relative to adult-directed (AD) action. In Study 1, full-featured videos were shown to 32 6- to 8-month-olds, who demonstrated a strong preference for ID action. In Study 2, infants at 6-8 months (n= 28) and 11-13…
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Visual Aids, Action Research
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Learmonth, Amy E.; Newcombe, Nora S.; Sheridan, Natalie; Jones, Meredith – Developmental Science, 2008
When mobile organisms are spatially disoriented, for instance by rapid repetitive movement, they must re-establish orientation. Past research has shown that the geometry of enclosing spaces is consistently used for reorientation by a wide variety of species, but that non-geometric features are not always used. Based on these findings, some…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts, Child Development, Developmental Stages
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Perry, Lynn K.; Smith, Linda B.; Hockema, Stephen A. – Developmental Science, 2008
Recent research has shown that 2-year-olds fail at a task that ostensibly only requires the ability to understand that solid objects cannot pass through other solid objects. Two experiments were conducted in which 2- and 3-year-olds judged the stopping point of an object as it moved at varying speeds along a path and behind an occluder, stopping…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cognitive Development, Motion, Child Development
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Coch, Donna; Skendzel, Wendy; Grossi, Giordana; Neville, Helen – Developmental Science, 2005
Stimuli designed to selectively elicit motion or color processing were used in a developmental event-related potential study with adults and children aged 6, 7 and 8. A positivity at posterior site INZ (P-INZ) was greater to motion stimuli only in adults. The P1 and N1 were larger to color stimuli in both adults and children, but earlier to motion…
Descriptors: Color, Motion, Visual Stimuli, Language Proficiency